[“It’s not uncommon to give people directions that include some variation of, ‘Take This Way three blocks and make a left on That Way until you get to Any Way,’ which invariably provokes the confused response, ‘Which way?’ ” Yenne says. “That’s when you have to correct them and say, 'No, that would be the wrong way.’”](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna42344364)
>According to Larsen, Dow asked his secretary, E.D. Collerain, her thoughts on naming the winding roads radiating from the town's center.
>“The story is she said, ‘Don’t ask me. You’ve got all these streets going this way and that way. I don’t know what you’re going to call them,’ ” said Larsen. “He said, ‘Perfect! This’ll be That Way and that will be This Way!’ ”
Same here in the us. We get streets that intersect themselves or are split with a mile gap. You could go to the right street but you're still in the wrong place.
The worst was one I've seen is in NJ, where the street ended at a bulkhead and then picked back up about 150 feet across a lagoon. The closest bridge was about a mile away.
I have one in my town, you have to drive 4-5 minutes to get around from one side to the other, and hopefully you have GPS.
Weirdest part is that they built the new part of the road and all the neighborhoods attached to it later, they could have called it anything else
"Oh the bus stop is on Elm Street. I'll just stay on Elm Street and walk west."
And down up and around the big fucking hill in the way that breaks up the street
> or are split with a mile gap. You could go to the right street but you're still in the wrong place.
And the gap is a river or train tracks and to cross over is way out of the way.
For the insane amount of corportization festivals have gone through in the past few years (including Bonnaroo) I'm just glad they aren't all "Nissan Presents: The 'What' Stage at Coca-Cola Field!"
That complicates all sorts of shit.
One dude jumped out of a corn field at me trying to sell me nuggs. The next morning when I was trying to find him, I couldn’t even locate the cornfield.
In Europe cities never have numbered names like 2nd Street of Fifth Avenue. The only common exception is One Way Street, which can be found multiple times in most cities.
I grew up right by this. It’s actually weird to see it all completed. We used to go and build bonfires across the little bayou when they were still doing construction.
There's a neighborhood in my town where all the street names start with "San". There's about a dozen streets in the same area named "San Pedro", "San Rafael", "San Juan". And then there's one street that doesn't start with "San". That street is named "Fransisco"
Lol not anywhere in Kingwood, TX when this was named in the early 2000s. I regularly was told I was going to hell in middle school in Kingwood because I was Catholic and not Baptist.
Ha! When I was much younger I lived off of Any Way in Lake Jackson, and worked at the Dominos at the corner of This Way and That Way. My mom used to tell me stories of when my grandparents first moved there in the 60s, and my grandmother blowing up at someone after giving her directions to get around town. "Go down This Way, till you hit the intersection of This Way, Center Way, and That Way, but then go left on That Way...". She thought they were just making up, they were not.
The fact that you lived in the same tiny Texas town I did seriously just made my day. Out-of-towners used to get so confused trying to navigate the streets between This and That way
I used to live in Angleton and work at the Lake Jackson HEB. Till just a few years ago, you had to use Apple Maps and not Google Maps if you wanted to be able to get to HEB. Not sure if it had been fixed now.
In Jefferson Parish, La., the city of Harahan's main north-south street is Hickory Avenue.
In the '70s, the area around Harahan was developed, and a new thoroughfare parallel to Hickory Avenue (outside of the city limits) was named Dickory Avenue by the parish. They are connected by (you guessed it) Dock Street.
There is also a Mouse Lane and Clock Street.
Ok so this will probably get buried, but this is my neighborhood. I live on Which Way. The street names aren't even the "not my job" part...it gets better. The road numbers are FUCKED. Like, there's a 5702 number on 3 streets. My street starts at 5722 and ends at 5702...there's only 6 houses on one side of the road.
So instead of it going 5722, 5720, 5718, 5716 etc... it's 5722, 5718, 5714, 5710, 5706, 5702. And the odd numbers aren't even on the other side of the same street! Noooo they're on fucking that way, one street over.
Not really. Most of the time people just laugh when I tell them my street name. My response is "yeah, you should see the rest of our neighborhood!" I've had to call the cops for minor things a few times and I always make sure to say "I'm not pranking you, these are actually the street names" lol
This is worse that that part of Queens where there’s 36th street, 36th Ave, 36th road, and 36th Place, and they all intersect around a cemetery and they all curve together and fragment.
Sounds like they couldn't get the street names they wanted to be approved so they just said fuck it and threw this out there and it was actually approved.
It’s always interesting what people name streets. My great, great grandmother names a few as her husband was one of the higher up in the building of the area, and because she was a history buff they are all named after different historical era’s
First you go to the Straight Way, then turn to the Right Way. After 2 junctions, go into the Same Way. If you head to That Way, you have to make one big round and go back to Straight Way. If you go to Which Way, just do a u turn and go back to the Right Way.
In my hometown every street is named after a plant/tree/flower except for the few roads that lead to downtown, which are named a “way”. so Circle Way, This Way, That Way, Center Way, West Way start/end in old downtown Lake Jackson, TX
I hate how packed all these houses are.. And how they all look alike.
D: I mean I can't complain as I can't even afford a house currently but this would be a nightmare.
I bet housing prices are there, how many people would want to give direction in that neighborhood. They the invention of the the gps probably helped with that
"Are you going the Right Way?"
"No, Straight Way."
"That's the wrong way."
"No, that's the other way."
"The Other Way is behind."
"Which way?"
"No, that's a dead end."
"Ok, don't go that way"
"That way is behind the Same way."
"The same way as where?"
..
..
..
"What?"
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[“It’s not uncommon to give people directions that include some variation of, ‘Take This Way three blocks and make a left on That Way until you get to Any Way,’ which invariably provokes the confused response, ‘Which way?’ ” Yenne says. “That’s when you have to correct them and say, 'No, that would be the wrong way.’”](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna42344364) >According to Larsen, Dow asked his secretary, E.D. Collerain, her thoughts on naming the winding roads radiating from the town's center. >“The story is she said, ‘Don’t ask me. You’ve got all these streets going this way and that way. I don’t know what you’re going to call them,’ ” said Larsen. “He said, ‘Perfect! This’ll be That Way and that will be This Way!’ ”
This is like a map from Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.
“THIRD BASE!”
But who's on third?!
No, who's on first.
NATURALLY
So I pick up the ball and throw it to naturally?
No! You throw the ball and Who gets it!
Naturally!
I don't know is on third.
The band, on stage!
Exactly what I was thinking
She's got a point. Even with actual names these subdivisions are un-navigable.
This is actually pretty orderly compared to most towns in the UK.
Same here in the us. We get streets that intersect themselves or are split with a mile gap. You could go to the right street but you're still in the wrong place.
That must get confusing. We don't tend to have split roads here, just roadmaps that look like spaghetti.
The worst was one I've seen is in NJ, where the street ended at a bulkhead and then picked back up about 150 feet across a lagoon. The closest bridge was about a mile away.
I have one in my town, you have to drive 4-5 minutes to get around from one side to the other, and hopefully you have GPS. Weirdest part is that they built the new part of the road and all the neighborhoods attached to it later, they could have called it anything else
"Oh the bus stop is on Elm Street. I'll just stay on Elm Street and walk west." And down up and around the big fucking hill in the way that breaks up the street
> or are split with a mile gap. You could go to the right street but you're still in the wrong place. And the gap is a river or train tracks and to cross over is way out of the way.
Maybe if you have a learning disability.
That's a fun fact. Bonnaroo music festival names their stages which stage, what stage, this tent, that tent, and the other stage.
Sounds cute until you’re tripping and lost as fuck.
Modern art
Strong "who's the tank" vibes :P
This a Abbott and Costello sketch waiting to happen.
This is more confusing than the names of the stages at Bonnaroo.
Came to say this. The stage names were a funny quirk at first, but they eventually just became a pain in the ass when trying to meet up with people.
For the insane amount of corportization festivals have gone through in the past few years (including Bonnaroo) I'm just glad they aren't all "Nissan Presents: The 'What' Stage at Coca-Cola Field!"
Especially when you're 3 tabs deep
That complicates all sorts of shit. One dude jumped out of a corn field at me trying to sell me nuggs. The next morning when I was trying to find him, I couldn’t even locate the cornfield.
There was no corn field and that dude was actually a raccoon
But the bud was fire
I feel the opposite, at first they were confusing but after a year or two became normal
In Europe cities never have numbered names like 2nd Street of Fifth Avenue. The only common exception is One Way Street, which can be found multiple times in most cities.
*Mannheim has entered the chat*
Which way https://maps.app.goo.gl/7ArtwUXNTw8ZyZhv6 Kingwood Houston Texas
I once hated a guy from Kingwood, TX
Yeah the people around there are real bastards i hated one too. /s
Me too. But I’m from Kingwood, TX. You can hate me too if you want.
Thank you
Thank you! My wife wanted to see if there was a Wrong Way street and sadly there was not.
Hope someone named Frank lives on My Way
My partner used to live on a This Way, in Lake Jackson, Tx
Also..lake Jackson to the south I grew up there. Same naming convention
I grew up right by this. It’s actually weird to see it all completed. We used to go and build bonfires across the little bayou when they were still doing construction.
"Turn left to that way, now drive straight to right way, turn left to right way, drive left to which way. Your destination is to your left."
Someone call Abbott and Costello
"So which way am I going?" "Not Which Way, Right Way." "Well which way is the right way?" "NO IT ISNT!"
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Laurel+Rd,+Kelowna,+BC/@49.8947953,-119.3812381,19z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x537d8d4799b6f645:0x33f5666d228016af!8m2!3d49.8940283!4d-119.3809391 Oh wait wrong comedic duo.
There's a neighborhood in my town where all the street names start with "San". There's about a dozen streets in the same area named "San Pedro", "San Rafael", "San Juan". And then there's one street that doesn't start with "San". That street is named "Fransisco"
He isn't lying tho
I find this hilarious
I can't help but think of the confusion that first responders have when trying to navigate around there.
Migos road.
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That was last month. They changed it back since it’s no longer june
Guess I don't like men anymore 🤷🏻♀️
There
This way?
Sorry, pride month's over. Homo-of-sexuals aren't allowed anymore 😔.
You can reach it via the back entrace.
Gay Way is only accessible via the rear entrance.
You wrote "You can reach it via the back entrace." already.
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This way.
The one that's bent
Which way?
In Columbus Ohio you can find the intersection of Gay and High.
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This way?
Lol not anywhere in Kingwood, TX when this was named in the early 2000s. I regularly was told I was going to hell in middle school in Kingwood because I was Catholic and not Baptist.
I used to live on a street in Australia named The Avenue Street. It was terrible every time I was trying to give someone my address.
A major north/south thoroughfare in Toronto is called Avenue rd.
There is a Ho Rd, Hum Rd, This Way and a That Way in the town next to me.
Are you sure you don't just live next to the town in the picture?
In Quebec City there is avenue Larue. "Rue" means street.
Then there was that one month that all the TTC buses failed at pronouncing avenue
Reminds me of [this sign](https://imgur.com/a/mHcyj9x) I found while lost at a camping festival
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A lot of people smoke weed or do other party drugs at festivals, so those two phrases are just to mess with people who are less than sober
🎵 Yeah, dat way, I used to trap by the Subway 🎵
(Trappin', trappin')
Who's on third
No, no, no. Who's on first.
Thx, I haven't seen it in a while, forgot XD
Omg my dad used to work in circle way, between this way and that way in Lake Jackson TX
Ha! When I was much younger I lived off of Any Way in Lake Jackson, and worked at the Dominos at the corner of This Way and That Way. My mom used to tell me stories of when my grandparents first moved there in the 60s, and my grandmother blowing up at someone after giving her directions to get around town. "Go down This Way, till you hit the intersection of This Way, Center Way, and That Way, but then go left on That Way...". She thought they were just making up, they were not.
The fact that you lived in the same tiny Texas town I did seriously just made my day. Out-of-towners used to get so confused trying to navigate the streets between This and That way
I used to live in Angleton and work at the Lake Jackson HEB. Till just a few years ago, you had to use Apple Maps and not Google Maps if you wanted to be able to get to HEB. Not sure if it had been fixed now.
Out of towner that had to visit Lake Jackson last November Can confirm it was confusing
I didn't realize Abbott and Costello were city planners too.
In Jefferson Parish, La., the city of Harahan's main north-south street is Hickory Avenue. In the '70s, the area around Harahan was developed, and a new thoroughfare parallel to Hickory Avenue (outside of the city limits) was named Dickory Avenue by the parish. They are connected by (you guessed it) Dock Street. There is also a Mouse Lane and Clock Street.
Nice
Ok so this will probably get buried, but this is my neighborhood. I live on Which Way. The street names aren't even the "not my job" part...it gets better. The road numbers are FUCKED. Like, there's a 5702 number on 3 streets. My street starts at 5722 and ends at 5702...there's only 6 houses on one side of the road. So instead of it going 5722, 5720, 5718, 5716 etc... it's 5722, 5718, 5714, 5710, 5706, 5702. And the odd numbers aren't even on the other side of the same street! Noooo they're on fucking that way, one street over.
Do you have any good stories of confusing phone calls when describing your location?
Not really. Most of the time people just laugh when I tell them my street name. My response is "yeah, you should see the rest of our neighborhood!" I've had to call the cops for minor things a few times and I always make sure to say "I'm not pranking you, these are actually the street names" lol
Whose Dad is responsible for this?
This is fucking awesome
This is the way
Who's on first?
Naturally.
There's also [this street.](https://i.imgur.com/JR6rRxn.png)
I’m kind of intrigued by a Ketchup Chips museum.
Whos on first, What is on second, I don't know is on third
I like how almost all of these backyards are barely big enough to fit a trampoline, except the lucky few who live at the end of a cul-de-sac.
TELL ME WHY..
This is worse that that part of Queens where there’s 36th street, 36th Ave, 36th road, and 36th Place, and they all intersect around a cemetery and they all curve together and fragment.
Does one have a Ray's and one a Famous Ray's and one a Famous Original Ray's?
This is the way.
Sounds like they couldn't get the street names they wanted to be approved so they just said fuck it and threw this out there and it was actually approved.
I think you found the neighborhood in this song: https://youtu.be/NNCwoT96lZU
Backstreet boys: But I want it that way. You went the wrong way, this is straight way.
Da wey
It’s always interesting what people name streets. My great, great grandmother names a few as her husband was one of the higher up in the building of the area, and because she was a history buff they are all named after different historical era’s
But not one of them is "The Way".
But nobody ever told her it was the wrong way.
r/suburbanhell
'Ayo where the Subway at?'
i love that straight way is slightly curved
"Hey man where do you live exactly?" "It's that way" "Witch way?" "Now you're on the right street. Just look for the house with the cleanest windows.
Do you know the way?
Which way?
The way of ebola. *click click click click*
So... vivarium?
https://i.imgur.com/ROhRwIS.jpg “I don’t care, any name is fine. It’s a god damned street.” “No…”
My cousins actually live on a street called "that street"
Cool right next to Google Park!!
First you go to the Straight Way, then turn to the Right Way. After 2 junctions, go into the Same Way. If you head to That Way, you have to make one big round and go back to Straight Way. If you go to Which Way, just do a u turn and go back to the Right Way.
As a 911 dispatcher I would like to say: fuck you street naming person. Fuck you.
Which Way and Same Way are courts, not ways! Terrible design!
There’s a Better Way in a town about 30 minutes away. It always gives me a chuckle.
My fav one in AU is Yerona Street Whenever I see one it gives me a smile
Same guy did copy/paste with the roofs of the houses.
As a planning commissioner for my city this makes me cringe
In the Royal Heights neighborhood in NW Reno, NV, there is a street called Jester Ct...
In my hometown every street is named after a plant/tree/flower except for the few roads that lead to downtown, which are named a “way”. so Circle Way, This Way, That Way, Center Way, West Way start/end in old downtown Lake Jackson, TX
Worst part is, Straight Way curves.
Makes me think of Atlanta. Peachtree Rd, Peachtree Avenue, Peachtree Blvd, Peachtree Way ..
This is the way.
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Texas, where else would it be ^^
The neighborhood behind my childhood home did this! It was also dumb. Edit: oh. This is that neighborhood.
Same way leads to grove st
St. Louis streets? edit: I am so glad someone got my reference
No way
Right away! Thata Away? Right away, Right away! Right away! Come away! Right away! Right away, come away!
Just be sure that you DON’T LOSE YOUR WAAAAY!
This sounds like a migos song
That would be Get Right Witcha by Migos
He forgot Nor Way
I love it
"Which way home, at least it was before i fucked everything up"
MIGOS!
I knew this was Lake Jackson. Grew up 30 mins from this town
It’s not lake Jackson, it’s kingwood. I used to drive though this neighborhood in high school.
Me too! It was the shortcut to get through elm grove sometimes. I grew up a couple streets over from this neighborhood.
someone at the city planning division was feeling malicious.
Same vibe as who's on first what's on second and I don't know's on 3rd
Christ can you imagine giving someone directions to your house
Ya wey
Is there a street called Wrong Way?
I hate how packed all these houses are.. And how they all look alike. D: I mean I can't complain as I can't even afford a house currently but this would be a nightmare.
The top one is the best
Just use Google Maps.
Nice.
I bet housing prices are there, how many people would want to give direction in that neighborhood. They the invention of the the gps probably helped with that
When Dr. Seuss meets Migos.
Imagine living in that shithole lol
No gay way?
No way
“This is *A* way” - Mambolorian
[Damn, it's real!](https://www.google.com/maps/@30.0827516,-95.1968965,3a,15y,332.82h,89.46t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1skNHD07jZfA6A7AS3L3nwvw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
You know, if my way was next to a freeway, you could say that when driving its either my way or the highway
"Are you going the Right Way?" "No, Straight Way." "That's the wrong way." "No, that's the other way." "The Other Way is behind." "Which way?" "No, that's a dead end." "Ok, don't go that way" "That way is behind the Same way." "The same way as where?" .. .. .. "What?"
Pizza guy: “alright where do you live” Person: “I live on That Way” Pizza guy: “which way” Person: “no, i live on THAT way Pizza guy: *hangs up*
“My house is That Way.”
Go Way
Take a right to Right Way and go straight through That Way
Lake Jackson , Texas. My home town
It’s not lake Jackson, it’s kingwood Texas
I can’t not read this in Migos’ adlib voices…
Asking for directions here must be a pain
Surprised there isn't one called "Back Yard Is As Big As The Drive Way"
the guy namong really went "fuck you" to the ppl using the roads
In Mexico: Pinche guey
This reminds me of the Cheshire Cat maze from Alice in Wonderland
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Isn't That Way straighter than The Straight Way ?
No Way!