Canthook

Maybe there's a difference between city folk and small town folk. City folk seem to know the names of streets. Small town folks tend to give directions like "Turn left at Patty O'Shea's old place, then turn right two miles before where Miller's barn burned down about twenty years ago, cross that bridge where Smiley used to go fishing, and when you get to the fork in the road, veer left and look for a big yellow house with a barn that has a blue door on it."

Of course, Blondie gives me citified instructions. "Turn left on Hazel Street, then right on Ebeneezer, and go seven blocks, and hang a left down the alley behind Joe's Deli." Well, it turns out that they made Hazel one-way - the wrong way - two years ago, and Ebeneezer got renamed to Martin Luther King Drive almost 40 years ago, and Joe's Deli isn't there any more; it's a wine bar named "Sappho's" now.

Anything Wrong With Maps?

Well, yes, there is something wrong with maps. They created a new street through a greyfields area near my home; I actually went to the trouble of pointing that out to the Mapquest people in 2002, and it still hasn't made its way into their maps. They do, however, show some streets that, having driven past them hundreds of times, look an awful lot like they have buildings built where the street is supposed to be. It looks funny when you switch between map view and satellite view.

But still, maps go a lot way towards helping two people communicate as to where something is.

So while we're talking

I suppose I should mention that Lancaster closed Queen street this morning between King and Vine. Except you couldn't go from King to Vine on Queen street; it's one way, and that's the wrong way.

It's going to be closed for several weeks, they say. Need I mention that Queen Street is a major northbound artery in Lancaster? I suppose you already figured that out.

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