Random? Ok, random. What the heck is up with street names? Who names this stuff?
I'm stalking/lurking real estate in our area because we expect to buy a house in two or three years. And I have found houses on the weirdest streets! The names themselves might not be all that weird but they remind me of weird things. Examples include:
Handcart Lane. This makes me think of shopping at the grocery store and pushing a little silver cart along in front of me to hold my selections. I'd want to go shopping all the time if I lived on Handcart Lane.
Narcissus Court. Narcissus was a jerkwad in mythology who broke Echo's wee little heart and then fell in love with a mirror image of himself in a pond and languished away next to the pond until he died of thinking to himself "Dang self, you fine!" and then his dead body turned into a Narcissus flower. Yay. Also the name of Draco Malfoy's mother and Bellatrix Lestrange's cousin. Ok, so she lied to Voldemort and told him Harry was dead, and is as far as I know the ONLY person to get away with lying to Voldemort besides Snape, but still. Muggle, please, don't name your kid or your street or anything else Narcissus.
Fuchsia Place. Fuchsia is supposed to be pronounced "fyew-sha" but I didn't realize it until I'd already been saying it "***-ya" for years, and it sounds so naughty, I just can't handle it. Also, pink.
Trail Wind Drive. I don't know why but I think of it as Tail instead of Trail and it just reminds me of flatulence. /blush!
Jupiter Ave. Ooh I like this one! I could tell people I lived on Jupiter. And when they were all "Whoa Steph, that's a long commute back to earth for work every day!" I'd be all "Muggle please, that's Captain Jean-Luc Picard to you. Who is this Steph you keep mentioning?"
Crestwater Court. Crest = toothpaste, water = water. Water mixed with toothpaste, court.
Galileo Lane. My state is red, we've had a white supremacist group operating out of Couer D'alene, we're so darned religious that a Walgreens right here in town has actually denied women the morning-after pill before, and we have a street named after the father of modern science who the church hated. Wait what? If I lived on Galileo Lane, I'd sing Bohemian Rhapsody all the time because that's the main thing the name reminds me of. D:
Anyways, there's more of them, but I can't bore you all day with it. Street names are weird, that is all.
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