Re: Overheard on the scanner

Paul Dormer <prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I think I worked out last night what you meant, eventually, but at
> first I was failing to think grid street plan.

These neighborhoods usually aren't grids.  Many short roads curve
randomly then suddenly stop.  It reminds me of pubic hair.

> The culs-de-sac I know don't actually go anywhere, so there'd be
> nothing to cut through to.

You mean there's nothing on the other side except vacant land?  Around
here there's little vacant land, and of course no non-vacant land
that's not adjacent to a road.  A cul de sac is usually surrounded by
houses, and each of those houses' back yards are adjacent to the back
yards of houses on other culs de sac that may be several miles away
by road.  Or there may be houses on a road, or an apartment complex
surrounded by parking lots.  But there's almost always something
very close.

One house where WSFA used to meet (not on a cul de sac) has its back
yard adjacent to open National Agricultural Research Center land.  A
house where PRSFS sometimes meets (on a road that eventually ends in
a cul de sac) has its back yard adjacent to a forested flood plain.
Both are unusual.
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