Cville has a ton of roads with same names but one is Street and one is Ave etc and they rarely, but not never, connect; also most streets change names over the course of their passage through town, sometimes several times; there are a lot of directions given by saying "stay in the right lane and ignore the name of the street for x miles" - and streets that keep their same name even though they don't actually go through certain blocks. One of my favorite memories of having to laugh so hard I couldn't breathe was when I was walking somewhere, Halloween I think in 1986 or 87, tripping on acid, with 2 local friends (also tripping, one a know-it-all) and one friend from out of town (the babysitter), and a car pulled over to ask directions and the non-know-it-all and I instantly saw, in our tripping enhanced state, that a) in the group these poor people had chosen, 3 were tripping and the 4th was from out of town, b) you couldn't get to where they wanted to go from where they were without extreme complications as they had just missed their turn, and c) that the know-it-all was, nonetheless, going to try to give them directions - and instantly died laughing in each other's arms while the babysitter grinned his 4-inch grin and the people in the car grew very large eyes. Priceless. Thank you for reminding me of that.
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