[or-roots] That and this

[Leslie Chapman]

Well, I was aware of the convention of giving 1/2 to a second dwelling on
one lot, but I have only seen that apply to dwellings behind the primary
building on the lot. My next door neighbor is an apartment and the dividing
line between north and south is the street the other side of them, my
address is 175, but the "powers that be" gave the apartments numbers 323 -
328 or some such, so when UPS or anybody else tries to deliver, they take
our stuff to the plumber on North sixth.

Okay, now this is really going to make all of you laugh, I went back to
Yahoo, typed in 7 1/2 MLK (spelled out fully) and up pops a map with a
location and the note that it couldn't find the address 7 1/2, so naturally
it put me as far from where I needed to be and still be one guess what??
Union Avenue.

Long story short with Cecil's understanding of where the zeros (no offense
to your folks, I jsut meant where North Meets south) is I can say with a
fairly high degree of certainty that the house they lived in there is no
longer there, it is either a parking lot or a multistory dwelling now.

Dan M;

You asked about Medford, I have never lived there, My wife was there for a
year around 1972, but I have or at least Had family there for quite some
time, I don't know exactly when they first moved there but it was before my
time. They were Fosters, Tom, Tess, Happy were some of the names, from all
I've heard about them, if you knew them you wouldn't forget them.

Any time somebody would pull out in front of him, my dad would always quote
cousin Happy; "Pull out in front of them, Hell, they've got brakes!"

And they loved to tell other stories on them, my favorite was when Aunt Tess
and her Freind Bell (well, I will leave it at taht for name. last I knew she
was still aroudn) got caught out in after a cloud burst in Portland and the
streets were running full, Bell took her panties off and put htem on her
head cause she didn't wante them to get in the water.

I have a personal faux pax on my self about Aunt Tess and Uncle tom (my
family always taught us to call "older" cousins aunt and uncle) I had grwon
up hearing all these stories about them and my Grandmother. Grandma died
before I was born and nobody ever talked about Tom Tess and Happy in present
tense, so I assumed they were with Grandma. One day I'm home alone and a car
pulls up and a 60ish woman gets out and looks at me and says "Mike?" I
explain that "No, I'm little brother Les" and she says "you probably don't
remember me cause you were knee high to a grasshopper last time I saw you,
but I'm your Aunt Tess"

I was so flabbergasted I blurted out "I thought you were Dead!"

My mout his always getting me in trouble.


Les C
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