88V8 wrote:stevensfo wrote:Is it really so difficult to number a row of houses?
Out in the sticks, routinely name, no number.
And the name often not that prominent, and never lit up at night.
Same round here. These 'ouses down this rutted old unlit track have been here for 'undreds of years, and if yer don't know who lives where, then what yer doin' round 'ere anyway? Be off with you, before the hounds get yer smell and track you down. And you wouldn't want that, trust me.
Have to admit that I do feel for the poor sods delivering takeaway pizzas in the dark, though. We have our house name and number clearly written on the gatepost (and a light, too), but all it tends to mean is that the delivery drivers give up the search and bring the edibles to our door, No. 21, instead of to No. 27, which would mean driving another quarter mile into the pothole-strewn inky black darkness. Maybe it would be easier for the drivers to call for directions if there was a mobile phone signal?
BJ