i was driving home after school today and had to take a bit of a detour through carefree to get to my house. while passing through said neighborhood, a thought occured to me. actually, it's something i've thought about quite a bit. but one look at the ridiculous street signs and i was once again reminded of why i either love or hate the fairly remote suburb where i grew up. all the street names in carefree sound like or, are a reflection of, the times in which they were given.
examples:
dreamy street
never mind
leisure lane
serenity
it's like they paid some half-baked bozo to take a bunch of acid and wander through this new residential area and lazily designate streets as this or that according to some completely moronic and arbitrary whim. never mind that they're complete nonsense. just as long as it "sounds cool."
it's so silly. i like it though. it definitely dates itself--these names. they sound so ridiculous now. like, maybe, back in the seventies, when people were still emulating that bearded convict from the illustrated kama sutra and bowling was a legitimate and new and exciting "sport," they seemed like awesome names. but, now--i don't know.
it's kind of funny.
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