How many of you....

[Sundogg1911]

I live on a private road (Keibler Beach Lane) it was named after the original owners of all of the property. most of my neighbors are Keiblers or relatives of the Keiblers. It was originally Keibler drive, but 911 was getting confused because it's actually a private road off of Keibler. I still haven't found the beach, but it's impressive to tell people I have a beach house. Some of my neighbors had to even change their house numbers when they changed it to lane. (only 4 houses on my street) it's starting to get confusing when someone askes where I live. the new street sign is also spelled wrong (Kiebler)

[TCLouis]

I picked it.

But only the idiot at the county could have posted the addresses on the wrong sides.

When I called her and inquired about it, first she did not know there was a convention for odd and even numbers, secondly whe asked how she could have determined right side and left side.
It astarts on a county road and dead ends back in a holler.
DUH

And she was setting up 911 address system!

[monadnock#5]

For years and years my address was a cause for confusion. So. Main St., Jaffrey Rd., Old Jaffrey Rd., Monadnock Hwy., State Rte. 124, all were equally valid.

The 911 system solved the problem neatly. The bad news: no one asked me what the name should be. The good news: since I put a post with my street number up at the foot of the driveway, the guy in the brown truck never misses me anymore. Life is good.

[surveyor]

As a land surveyor much of my business is designing new residential subdivisions. Usually my clients (developers) select the names, frequently their family members. Occasionally they do not specify and I end up picking the names for the subdivision and the roads. That is why in this area we have a "Hunters Drive" and "Flintlock Lane". I'm still trying to get a road in a ritzy subdivision named "Dirt Road" or "Gravel Drive". We do have a road here in Town named "Wong Way". Don't blame me, I didn't name that one.

Then there is the large subdivision with all the streets having indian names (Arapaho, etc) one of the streets is "Elohssa", sounds like an indian tribe until you read it in your rear view mirror.

[clodhopper]

I was not around when my street was named. But my subdivision was the first in Montana.
The planners have worked out some bugs since then. The subdivison lots were numbered starting in the upper left hand corner of the map along one side of the road and back up the other side. lots on the west side of the road got a #1 added to the lot number while lots on the east side of the road got a 0 added to the lot number to form our address.
So going north the numbers go up on the right side and go down on the left side. My address is 3650 and the guy across from me is 2471. Some day the county will fix it, but its kinda fun watching lost people driving up and down the road looking.

[Mumblypeg]

OK, so what with "Park Drive"? Are you going to park or drive?
My street is Sourwood Drive. I didn't name it but I get blamed for it. It seens as though someone thinks I'm SOUR.???