Small Town?

Not in all the years I've lived here as this town ever been considered "small." While it isn't as big as OKC or Tulsa, having a major university here has always excluded us from becoming your typical Okie 'village,' or HAS it?

• Natalie is in her second year at CCOC kids camp. One of my friends knew the man who started the camp. Among the cast are two of my high school best friend's nieces. One looks so much like her that I knew immediately who she was the first time I saw her last year.
• The little girls just finished Sooner Theatre camp. I had known two of the moms with kids in their classes since elementary school. Another little girl is the granddaughter of the Branch President where I go to church. The theatre's Executive Director starred in the school musicals where I attended high school. And my in-laws know the parents of one of the two girls who played Belle.
• Tristan and Natalie shared classrooms with siblings whose mom has known my husband since grade school and whose grandma was good friends with Dave's mom.
• I was a camp counselor at the same day camp with both Tristan and Natalie's second grade teacher.
• My sister's boyfriend's mother was MY favorite day camp counselor.
• The horse ranch at the end of our road belongs to friends of Dave's dad.
• One of my favorite local bloggers and I had the same high school English teacher 9 years apart.
• And finally, the other day I watched a service vehicle cutting in and out of traffic and making a general nuisance. I thought to myself "that jerk drives like my ex-boyfriend." Then, I saw the company name on the driver's side door AND the driver himself. And lo and behold, it WAS my ex-boyfriend.

I swear we have a population of over 100,000 here, but sometimes it just doesn't feel like it.