City slickers will never understand the unique pleasure and pain that comes with small town life. Everyone knows everyone, and more importantly, everyone knows everyone else’s business. It’s hard to keep a secret for long when you live a stone’s throw from most of the people you know, and this can lead to some pretty funny controversies.

This was spelled out by a recent Reddit thread, which asked small towners to share the best local gossip they’d recently come across from where they live. Some of it’s crazy, and some of it’s just downright petty, but it’s all good entertainment value.