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When I was real young I remember going to my uncle's house one Sunday about 2 hours away. On our way home, my father, being the inquisitive man he is, saw a street sign with our last name on it. We were is a very dark, wooded area and my mother was freaking out. He was like, 'Oh, we'll be fine." The road ended in the middle of the woods and turned into a dirt road and when we got to the end of it - there is was- the back way into a maximum security prison. My brother and I were just dying when we saw that. Figures.
Well know I just want to find that place and shout "why!"
It pretty much consists of a few buildings. You gas up and buy Mexican insurance (if you haven't done it already) on the way to the beach down in Rocky Point, but you can do the same thing either at the casino before it or at the border...
Sometimes you wish there were a few more buildings... like when my car got stalled in water about 15 miles out of Why during a downpour. It was still an early afternoon, but it was dark and awful as if the world was closing down on me.
When I was real young I remember going to my uncle's house one Sunday about 2 hours away. On our way home, my father, being the inquisitive man he is, saw a street sign with our last name on it. We were is a very dark, wooded area and my mother was freaking out. He was like, 'Oh, we'll be fine." The road ended in the middle of the woods and turned into a dirt road and when we got to the end of it - there is was- the back way into a maximum security prison. My brother and I were just dying when we saw that. Figures.
Wonderful! That reminds me of a street I saw once somewhere in LA or Orange County... I was full of hospitals and doctors' offices and had the lovely name Termino Dr. or something to that effect...
There's a street close to my neighborhood named Poorman Rd. It's probably named after somebody's last name, but I still wouldn't want to live on it!
My house was new construction and I was really hoping to get some decent street name, which I did. It's kind of ridiculous considering it's in Tucson, but still decent and easy to pronounce.
It pretty much consists of a few buildings. You gas up and buy Mexican insurance (if you haven't done it already) on the way to the beach down in Rocky Point, but you can do the same thing either at the casino before it or at the border...
Sometimes you wish there were a few more buildings... like when my car got stalled in water about 15 miles out of Why during a downpour. It was still an early afternoon, but it was dark and awful as if the world was closing down on me.
We have tons of those towns in Indiana.
Like the only reason why it could even be considered a town is that it has a general store, and a post office.
Other than that, if you blink you missed the town!
It really makes you wonder why the hell it's there!
I lived in AZ and I know precisely where this town is. Obviously, you don't have a jeep or sense of adventure, or you would have traveled the dirt paths around Why, and you would have discovered one-time suburbs of that town: Who, What, Where, When & Which. Or? Perhaps Where was the major city at that time, and Why was a suburb.
I know, from reading the history of that area, when these towns were slowly disappearing, there was a movement to consolidate these towns into one, consolidate the police, fire dept.'s, city councils, but they argued and argued and argued for years and could never come to a consensus. What would be the name of this consolidated metropolis?
Which, at that time, had the majority of the population, but the residents of Who, What, Where, When & Why were fearful people would mistake the word Which for Witch. Fight, fight, fight, and then they all disappeared!
So there! Why did I have to give this AZ history lesson to an AZ resident! Why! Why!
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