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    Do You Know Where You Are?

    Please allow me another rant about people who do not know where they are when they walk their dog. It happened again yesterday, a lady found a lost dog while walking her own. The place she said she found it does not exist. There is no such trail in that town. In fact, she wasn't even IN that town. Arrggghhhh.
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    Senility? Influence of medication?

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    It's pretty common. Found on Main Street in a county lost pet site. HElloooo, there is a Main St. in just about every town and city in the county. The one above made up a trail name, there's no such thing where she said she was or where she really was.

    I said I'd take Oban and look for a lost dog this past summer and asked which parking lot the owner had used. The one off Hwy such and such. No parking lots off that highway. It was a +4,000 acre place, knowing where to look was important.
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    It is so frustrating. Today one of the moderators of a lost and found county group has posted a stolen puppy even though, as she says, it is not in the county. But it IS in the county. Makes me wonder how many animals she didn't post or help with because she's so poor at geography.
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    I can't say what the issue is. I just know that I've lived in a few different states with towns that have road names that are the same and sometimes, for a brief moment, it's like I'm in an alternative universe. Wait, which Pickett Rd is this? There's a school in my current town that has the same name as the town (and a high school) in the last state where I lived. Schools with the same names in different states. Maybe the first lady was new in the area and just had that weird sort of mix up.

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    I drive for a living, you have no idea how screwed up some towns can be. For instance in Lower Merion Township (PA) there are 3 different Bryn Mawr Avenues, the only difference would be they are in different zip codes, but if all you knew was it was in Lower Merion ... well you can see the problem.

    Not helping is zip code town names, a federal thing, often have a name of a nearby municipality but the zip code area is much larger. For instance, I live in Upper Darby Township but my zip code name is Lansdowne, the next town over is called Lansdowne, people from Lansdowne think where I live is part of their town, but it's not, we only share a zip code, we have different governments, police, trash pick up etc.

    Also consider the case of a Main Street, there may also be a Maine Street.

    Don't get me started on NYC, there's a part of town where you can be at the intersection of 30th Street and 30th Avenue, 'streets' go lets say east-west and 'avenues' north-south.

    In the same part of NYC you can be driving down 21st Street, you've just passed 30th Avenue, in order, the next streets you'll pass are, 30th Road, 30th Drive, 31st Ave, 31st Road, 31st Drive etc etc, there are some spots where they throw in a Terrace, so you pass Ave., Road, Drive, Terrace, all of the same numbered name.

    Back to PA, there are a lot of old town roads that had new roads built off of them. Now you wouldn't think much of that until you find yourself on a different road all of a sudden, for instance, again, in Lower Merion, you are traveling on Old Gulph Road and come to an intersection, normal in every way except, if you go straight you are now on New Gulph Road, if you turn right you're on Roberts Road and if you turn left you stay on Old Gulph Road. (also few miles away also in Lower Merion is another Roberts Road)

    Also here in Pennsylvania it seems we like some town names so much we name several places the same. 3 counties in a row all have a Springfield Township, 2 have an Upper Providence Township. Here in my county, we have Darby Borough, Darby Township & Upper Darby Township, all there in the same part of the county.

    Years ago the was a Birmingham Township that was in Chester County and Delaware County, on a map it would look like one place, but they were two distinct municipalities via the county border, it was so confusing the folks in Delaware County changed the name of their half to Chadds Ford Township.

    Oh, and Delaware County, Pennsylvania shares some of it's border with the State of Delaware.

    Anyway, driving for a living, having made deliveries and pickups for well over 30 years I have found a lot of folks really have no clue about their surrounding area.

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    soberbyker ~ Hats off to your memory and your sanity.

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    Some people have no sense of direction or just don't get geography. I shake my head whenever I tell someone I'm originally from Delaware and get asked what state that is in.

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