Well, sometimes it can be a pain in the behind! With everyone knowing everyone else, if you do something stupid or embarrassing, chances are half the town will have heard about it in the next half hour. Things tend to stick around a lot longer. You sorta...lose any kind of anonymity you'd get in a larger city, and even things you don't want other people to hear end up reaching their ears somehow.

Like if I was mad with Andre, he'd know about long before he got to work. [she laughs] Folks would warn him that I was in a mood or would ask him what he'd done this time. 'Course, he'd tell me that after the fact.