Two more things

[dira]

One, a sheepish observation I meant to include yesterday: since writing a story in which Ray Person removes his gloves by biting the fingertips, I have become 100% more likely to remove my gloves by biting the fingertips. /o\


Two, a question for Californians: if a person did not happen to know the local name of the highway she was on, because of reasons, but did know that it was (California) State Road 3, what would she call it? Not the 3, presumably. California 3? State Road 3? 3? This situation would never arise because non-numerical names are printed on all the highway signs?

Comments

[mmegaera]

Speaking as someone who grew up in Southern California in the 60s and early 70s, the article before the highway number is a relatively recent phenomenon, and one that startled me greatly when I went back down there to visit many years later.

Also, I remember a number of named highways that were marked as such on signs in the LA area, and they did take the article -- the Riverside Freeway, the Orange Freeway, the Golden State Freeway (that was I-5, I think, which is how we refer to it here in Washington state), the San Diego Freeway, etc. It's the only part of the country (and I've lived in eight states) that I know of where they do name their freeways.