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I'm an electrician..well at least until I become an astronaut.
This means that someday you will need me to come to your house.
Is it too much to ask to have your house number posted somewhere that I could see it? It doesn't even need to be spot-on, close will do. I'll figure it out.

Yes ultimately I'll find you. But some of ya'll make it like a contest.
If you need an incentive, I'm charging you for the time it takes me to drive, and find, your house. I can either get paid to drive around looking for your mystery mansion, or I could be fixing the 3-way switch that Uncle Barry mis-wired.

And God forbid your ever need a cop or paramedic quick-like.

Sorry, I'm not the mailman and I'm not the government..both of whom already know where you live. I'm gonna need some help here if ya don't mind.
 
heh, not long ago my wife realized that some of the local ruts into the woods with spraypainted 2x4s were actually driveways.
She only noticed when somebody started hanging chains between the posts with private property signs.
I assume that's the kind of thing Friday was talking about... not the clearly marked houses on the corner...
 
I thought it was required by law, so emergency personnel could locate you.

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DrScaryGuy said:
heh, not long ago my wife realized that some of the local ruts into the woods with spraypainted 2x4s were actually driveways.
She only noticed when somebody started hanging chains between the posts with private property signs.
I assume that's the kind of thing Friday was talking about... not the clearly marked houses on the corner...
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Even most of those I feel like have their mailbox at the end of the driveway. Just slap some numbers on the mailbox and bam, problem solved.
 
I have numbers on my front door, a yard sign & my mail box and still everyone goes next door.
 
4" tall black numbers on a white storm door, dead center in front of the house not one tree or shrub from any reasonable angle. 3" tall numbers on the mailbox you pass to get there. End of the road, shows so on every map and GPS system I've seen.

Spectrum: can't find it.
FedEx: neighbors packages right under those numbers on the door.
Random weirdos, standing in front of said door: "is this (insert not my address)"

Some people can't be helped. The numbers are there but I fully expect if they're ever needed I'll see whomever backing out of a neighbor's drive.
 
Numbers on post at porch and both sides of mailbox post.
 
I once went into a neighborhood to do a delivery and the street names weren't even posted. And the few numbers I saw didn't follow any logical order. It was like a development that never got finished. o_O
 
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georgel said:
I once went into a neighborhood to do a delivery and the street names weren't even posted. And the few numbers I saw didn't follow any logical order. It was like a development that never got finished. o_O
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Aye, Brigadoon, Laddie!
 
Friday said:
I could be fixing the 3-way switch that Uncle Barry mis-wired.
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How 'bout Uncle Dave? Lol.

One time about 20 years ago or so, in our first house, my wife bought us a new ceiling fan with a light kit.

So I get out the ladder and proceed to take down the old fan. I get out the instructions and start reading. I'm looking at the part about wiring up this light fixture on the fan. Nothing makes sense, to me anyway, and none of the wire colors match what is shown in the instructions.

So........ I give it my best shot. Wired that sucker up, got off the ladder, walked over to the wall switch, and flipped it up.

Voila!!!! We've got lightning in our living room! Lol.

Dang fan heliarced itself to the metal hanging bracket up in the ceiling. I got out a hammer and chisel and freed it up then proceeded to rewire it.

This time, I told my wife I needed to get something in the garage and for her to go ahead and flip the switch. She didn't know what happened the first time.

While I was in the garage I hollered, "Is it working?" Amazingly she responded that the fan was on and the light was on.

That's my amateur electrical nightmare story.:D:D
 
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Our house number ends in x90, and the house immediately next door ends in y60, where y=x+1. Logically there should be six houses between us (00,10,20,30,40, and 50). So people looking for our house tend to see the neighbor's house number on his mailbox and fly right on past, assuming that we are another block away. A guy who bought a ladder from me texted me from across the street due to his confusion. Granted, the neighbor's house number on his mailbox is in 4-inch numerals, and mine is in 2-inch numerals, but our house number is on the front of the house in 5-inch numerals which nobody seems to notice. I'm going to put bigger numbers on the mailbox; until then I explain the situation when I'm expecting a delivery.
 
We have the same issue making deliveries to customers. Half the time they don’t have a clue for the address where they are standing, other times it’s something to the effect of on the right after you top the hill.
 
Developers are the worst. They only want to give you lot numbers which are in the most random order ever and never marked on the house being built.
 
Qball said:
This time, I told my wife I needed to get something in the garage and for her to go ahead and flip the switch. She didn't know what happened the first time.

While I was in the garage I hollered, "Is it working?" Amazingly she responded that the fan was on and the light was on.

That's my amateur electrical nightmare story.:D:D
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While I haven't done that, i have on occasion said something along the lines of "hey, can you bring your phone to take a picture of something for me? and hold this flashlight ..."
 
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