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So the other morning I groggily drove my sleepy-ass down to the dropsite to pick up newspapers, which I throw at houses at obscenely early hours every day. I picked up my papers, and I had a stop delivery note for a customer.
The address was [123 Jack St Apt 201]. I was very confused, as having delivered on this route for going on 9 years (and living in the neighborhood for even longer), I had never heard of this Jack St.
So I wondered where this guest was, and wondered if they were stopping their subscription...was there a customer I hadn't been delivering to all this time?
I pulled up the Almighty Google on my phone. As far as Google was concerned, Jack Street didn't exist either. I only had one customer with that building number/apartment number combo, but they were on Smith Street. There was a Jack Ave nearby, but it had no buildings on it, and if there had been any they would have been numbered 4567-ish according to the scheme of the street grid there.
This is what the streets sort of looked like:
So I decided to check it out. I went to Smith Street. I looked at the street sign. Jack Street.
Did I slip into some sort of parallel universe? Are the Berenstain Bears spelled Berenstein again? Did I time-hop somehow?
I flipped back through some old paperwork because this customer, being a college student, regularly started and stopped their subscription based on school breaks. Sure enough, their old papers said Smith Street. New paper said Jack St.
So I think I drove through a dimensional portal at some point, because the street name is not the street name it always has been. So hello, new universe!
The address was [123 Jack St Apt 201]. I was very confused, as having delivered on this route for going on 9 years (and living in the neighborhood for even longer), I had never heard of this Jack St.
So I wondered where this guest was, and wondered if they were stopping their subscription...was there a customer I hadn't been delivering to all this time?
I pulled up the Almighty Google on my phone. As far as Google was concerned, Jack Street didn't exist either. I only had one customer with that building number/apartment number combo, but they were on Smith Street. There was a Jack Ave nearby, but it had no buildings on it, and if there had been any they would have been numbered 4567-ish according to the scheme of the street grid there.
This is what the streets sort of looked like:
So I decided to check it out. I went to Smith Street. I looked at the street sign. Jack Street.
Did I slip into some sort of parallel universe? Are the Berenstain Bears spelled Berenstein again? Did I time-hop somehow?
I flipped back through some old paperwork because this customer, being a college student, regularly started and stopped their subscription based on school breaks. Sure enough, their old papers said Smith Street. New paper said Jack St.
So I think I drove through a dimensional portal at some point, because the street name is not the street name it always has been. So hello, new universe!
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