99% of the time, when I do a job, I do it properly.
If I’m doing it for someone else, I’ll always give it my best effort.
If I’m doing if myself, I’ll usually give it my best effort.
But there is that other 1% of the time when circumstances (tiredness, trivial job, working conditions, amount of football on the tele etc etc) come together and conspire to make me put it on the back burner or even, in some cases, give up completely.
I know I’m not the only one. And I don’t just say that with no evidence, because look at this town in Porters Lake, Nova Scotia:
What has prompted such laziness? A poor night’s sleep? A perceived lack of respect at work? Sheffield United being on at 4pm instead of 5?
Laurie Lane – Alliterative street name or gentle Celtic poet?
Keizer Drive – it almost rhymes.
Post Office Road – perfect – very descriptive.
(Until you find out that the local Post Office is actually on Keizer Drive.)
And when you’re pointing that out:
No, it’s not on Post Office Road, it’s on That Street.
Well, no. Not That Street. The Other Street.
Which is called Keizer Drive.
And then those abominations south of the main road. Appalling. Lazy. Disappointing.
As an aside, Nova Scotia Trunk Highway 7 (crazy name, crazy road) looks like a very cool drive. And some of the place names along that bit of coastline are superb:
Grand Desert.
Head of Chezzetcook.
Ship Harbour.
Lower Ship Harbour.
East Ship Harbour.
Watt Section.
Pleasant Harbour.
Mushaboom.
Musquodoboit Harbour.
Moosehead.
And the inevitable:
Wine Harbour, and Sober Island.
There’s a whole blog post to be done about the bizarre North American place names I have found while searching on Geoguessr. But NSTH7 really packs them in along just a couple of hundred clicks.