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Diary of a Pizza Man

By Micheal Boddy
Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2007

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A recent delivery had me wandering through an apartment complex searching for a building. The buildings at many of the complexes in Angleton often seem to have no rhyme or reason for their numbering sequence. Perhaps they numbered them as they were completed by the contractors.

Anyway, I was on apartment safari and was offered help in locating the apartment by three young boys. I'm sure they had no more idea than I did about the location, but were hoping I might end up at one of their friends’ houses so they could get a slice. While we were walking, one of them asked, "Can you see in the dark?" I don't know what prompted that, but it would indeed be a boon for this, or any other pizza man. Addresses in Angleton are often hard enough to find in daylight, but are a real guessing game in the dark.

One recent bad guess had an elderly woman calling to make sure I was delivering in the area after I went to her house thinking it was the proper destination. It wasn't and she told the shift manager she had her gun at the ready should I return and not be who I said I was.

I wonder if that would have been classified as friendly fire if she should have opened up on me through the door?

Of course, much of that wouldn't have been a problem if all of the homes in Angleton were required to properly display their addresses. Another lady I delivered to was recently chastised by an ambulance driver for not having her address clearly visible. It didn't help that it was one of the weird ones that seem to be completely out of place.

A lot of neighborhoods in Angleton have really logical addresses, starting with the hundred number on one side and the same number plus one across the street. They then proceed along on both sides in increments of four, like 700, 704, 708, and so on. Others in small courts simply go 1 through 6 or 8, depending on how many houses are in the court. Pretty logical.

Others simply have no logical progression. There's a couple of homes on South Velasco, and a few in other places, that actually somehow got reversed, so if you pass the one and are thinking you've gone to far, you end up missing the home you were looking for when you turn around because the lesser numbered one is out of sequence.

I think if members of City Council had to look for addresses all evening long for a couple of weeks, that would all change pretty quickly.

But who knows. Perhaps they've already "addressed" that issue in their long-term plan.

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