Funny things that really happen RV'ing
While traveling with my new wife's parents on a trip to N. Carolina, we were looking for a campground for the night. After some backroad searching, we decided to ask someone. There was a man setting o...
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There is one county nearby that drives me nuts when I'm trying to find a customer's address. I believe the county engineers will be condemned to an eternity trying to find addresses.
They apparently do not believe in:
- Ascending or descending street (house) numbers. Some streets they are random.
- When they are ascending / descending, there is no notion of keeping the left and right sides in synch, e.g., 201, 230, 207, 244, 209, 250, 213, 217, ...
- There is not a notion that odd numbers are on one side, even on the others. I once got directions that he was the only even numbered house on that side of the street. Which mean he was 550 and sat right between 545 and 567 (on the same side of the street)
- It's OK to have the same street name in different places in the same city.
= It's OK to change the street name in the middle of nowhere for no reason
- You don't have to put both street names on the street sign. Don't you know that the crossing street is the main drag?
- Most old street names are hypenated with places that don't exist any more, e.g., Springfield-Bedford Rd, Springfield-Buxton Rd., Buxton-Farmersville Rd., Bedford-Buxton, etc.
- Most new street names are a jumble of the same handful of names within a subdivision. Turn right on Deer View, left on Wood Trail, Right on Trail View, left on Deer Trail, left on Wood View.
But I think worst I ever had was Pittsburgh when I lived there. You'll frequently come across a road sign like:
30W ^ 30E >
22S << 22N ^
18W > 18E >
52S ^ 17N ^
17S << 72E >
Besides nearly having to stop to read it all, invariably, you want 52N and have no idea which way that is, left, right, forward, back.
They apparently do not believe in:
- Ascending or descending street (house) numbers. Some streets they are random.
- When they are ascending / descending, there is no notion of keeping the left and right sides in synch, e.g., 201, 230, 207, 244, 209, 250, 213, 217, ...
- There is not a notion that odd numbers are on one side, even on the others. I once got directions that he was the only even numbered house on that side of the street. Which mean he was 550 and sat right between 545 and 567 (on the same side of the street)
- It's OK to have the same street name in different places in the same city.
= It's OK to change the street name in the middle of nowhere for no reason
- You don't have to put both street names on the street sign. Don't you know that the crossing street is the main drag?
- Most old street names are hypenated with places that don't exist any more, e.g., Springfield-Bedford Rd, Springfield-Buxton Rd., Buxton-Farmersville Rd., Bedford-Buxton, etc.
- Most new street names are a jumble of the same handful of names within a subdivision. Turn right on Deer View, left on Wood Trail, Right on Trail View, left on Deer Trail, left on Wood View.
But I think worst I ever had was Pittsburgh when I lived there. You'll frequently come across a road sign like:
30W ^ 30E >
22S << 22N ^
18W > 18E >
52S ^ 17N ^
17S << 72E >
Besides nearly having to stop to read it all, invariably, you want 52N and have no idea which way that is, left, right, forward, back.
