Show 895: Alphabetical Postal Rounds Make ZERO Sense

Once upon a time, there was a dog, a dog, a dog, a dog, a dog, a dog, a dog.

Basically a dog.

And this dog, he was walking along the street one day, minding his own business, wondering what he was going to do with the rest of his day.

Uh, it was 4:15 in the afternoon.

Uh, now dogs don't, dogs don't read watches or go by time like that, but they're aware of the difference between day and night.

They're aware that the light goes away at some stage, and they're not like cats.

They don't go, "Oh, it's nighttime.

I'm gonna go out and kill something." No, dogs are far less interesting than that.

So when they notice that the sun is coming down, it's the equivalent of...

Oh, wait, no.

There are dogs who go around howling at night and eating chickens from the local farmyard.

I suppose, no, you know, that dogs do do interesting things at night.

But your pet dog doesn't.

Your pet dog doesn't, unless you've been very, very irresponsible and allowed him to roam the streets at night or roam the roads at night if you're in an area that's not particularly urban, so you don't refer to the roads as streets.

Streets and roads are the same thing.

We, we get all high and mighty about this.

People who live in cities call everything a street.

People who live not in cities, people who live in the countryside where they have roads, they got to the countryside using roads.

There's usually roads going at least all the way up to the gate of their property.

Often there's a little muddy laneway going from the gateway to the house, but that's still somewhat a road.

That's exactly the same as a street.

The only difference between that and a street Is the history you expected to have commercial premises along it, and even then that's not the case.

They call things streets in cities that don't have any shops on them.

They just have a load of houses.

Maybe there's some businesses in those houses.