The_Discordian
Mmm... crunchy!
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You might consider this a minor thing, but I'm confused enough by it to merit thinking of it as Fortean:
The other day, my mum needed to know some friends' postcode in order to send them a congratulations card for their new baby, so I looked their place up on Google maps. I double-checked the photo of it on Streetview, as I wasn't entirely certain she'd remembered their house number right, and sure enough it was 13 higher than she thought it was. As she was naturally concerned that the last birthday card she'd sent them might well have gone to a house further down the road and on the other side, I offered to drop it round by hand - and when I got there, I found that the number on the house *was* exactly what my mum thought it was.
So, in the three years since the Streetview photo was taken, the road must have been at least partially renumbered, with the numbers changing sides of the road as well!
Is this common practice? It's the first time I've heard of it happening.
The other day, my mum needed to know some friends' postcode in order to send them a congratulations card for their new baby, so I looked their place up on Google maps. I double-checked the photo of it on Streetview, as I wasn't entirely certain she'd remembered their house number right, and sure enough it was 13 higher than she thought it was. As she was naturally concerned that the last birthday card she'd sent them might well have gone to a house further down the road and on the other side, I offered to drop it round by hand - and when I got there, I found that the number on the house *was* exactly what my mum thought it was.
So, in the three years since the Streetview photo was taken, the road must have been at least partially renumbered, with the numbers changing sides of the road as well!
Is this common practice? It's the first time I've heard of it happening.