I live on a street where DRIVE is a very important part of the address. The post office truncates that to "DR". There is a house with the same street name and number except it's a CIRCLE. (I'd like to flog whoever decided on that plan.)
So I ordered something and got a robot phone call about the delivery.. and I might have missed important information because instead of reciting my address as 'yadda yadda DRIVE, the robot said 'yadda yadda DOCTOR.
We used to have both a Maple Ave and a Maple Rd in town. Things got regularised when 911 came in. I forget what Maple Rd had to change to, but Maple Ave already had Maple Ave Elementary School on it so that wasn't going to change.
In New England, rural residents often know the local family or person for whom the road is named. Those who don't live in New England are often skeptical about hearing that a road or street was named for so-and-so or named about such-and-such event or geographical entity unique to the town. Those from "away" are more accustomed to a developer spending 10 minutes in naming streets in a subdivision, where the street names have no historical or geographical significance whatsoever. Which doesn't say that developer-named streets are not to be found in New England.
The upside to developer named streets is that I've met my cohort on the Circle street. I took a package delivered to my house that was meant for her and we laughed about it... and I finally told her about the time that I 'stole' one of my packages from her front porch late at night... I really needed that thing the next morning.
I really can't say I'm a country girl, but this is my first time living in a relatively new subdivision with an HOA and... I don't hate it. What I do hate is that the design of the houses does not allow me sit on my front porch and wave at everyone that passes by. I've compensated by opening my street-facing garage door and sitting in there calling out to my neighbors walking their dogs. I don't have a dog, but wondered if owning a dog was inadvertently left out of the covenants. Now, I know some of my neighbors by their dog's name, not theirs.
Though not quite in the same vein of humor...
ReplyDeleteI live on a street where DRIVE is a very important part of the address. The post office truncates that to "DR". There is a house with the same street name and number except it's a CIRCLE. (I'd like to flog whoever decided on that plan.)
So I ordered something and got a robot phone call about the delivery.. and I might have missed important information because instead of reciting my address as 'yadda yadda DRIVE, the robot said 'yadda yadda DOCTOR.
We used to have both a Maple Ave and a Maple Rd in town. Things got regularised when 911 came in. I forget what Maple Rd had to change to, but Maple Ave already had Maple Ave Elementary School on it so that wasn't going to change.
ReplyDeleteIn New England, rural residents often know the local family or person for whom the road is named. Those who don't live in New England are often skeptical about hearing that a road or street was named for so-and-so or named about such-and-such event or geographical entity unique to the town. Those from "away" are more accustomed to a developer spending 10 minutes in naming streets in a subdivision, where the street names have no historical or geographical significance whatsoever. Which doesn't say that developer-named streets are not to be found in New England.
ReplyDeleteThere's a Sodom Rd in Center Tuftonboro, NH.
ReplyDeleteNo, I never asked.
The upside to developer named streets is that I've met my cohort on the Circle street. I took a package delivered to my house that was meant for her and we laughed about it... and I finally told her about the time that I 'stole' one of my packages from her front porch late at night... I really needed that thing the next morning.
ReplyDeleteI really can't say I'm a country girl, but this is my first time living in a relatively new subdivision with an HOA and... I don't hate it. What I do hate is that the design of the houses does not allow me sit on my front porch and wave at everyone that passes by. I've compensated by opening my street-facing garage door and sitting in there calling out to my neighbors walking their dogs. I don't have a dog, but wondered if owning a dog was inadvertently left out of the covenants. Now, I know some of my neighbors by their dog's name, not theirs.
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