A story I wrote last week about unusual street names prompted some funny conversation. Have a look over at our Wake County blog.

A story I wrote last week about odd street names in subdivisions around the Triangle prompted some funny responses I thought I'd share.

A Wake County woman reported the following:

"We just moved from the Landover subdivision off of Forestville Rd. To get there, you had to go down Landover Lane, go past Landover Dale, Landover Glenn, to Landover Crest Drive. If you want to drive around the neighborhood, you'll go past Landover Woods. They even use the house numbers (4 digits) twice, in a 60-home neighborhood. We constantly received others' mail, and had ours lost. Would hate to call 911 in this place."

He's on vacation this week. Otherwise, you can be sure Eric Ferreri would post here about his interesting and entertaining story on street names that appears in today's N&O.

So please take this opportunity to tell us about street names in Durham that strike your fancy. Have you ever noticed the little slice of Greece right off N.C. 55? Athens Avenue is right next to Crete Drive. I've also always been tickled by Riddle Road.

As noted in this 2005 column by Durham historian (and Durham News columnist) Jim Wise, some folks even use street names to send a little message — as in Trinity Park, when Brodie Leonidas Duke, son of Washington Duke, named what is now known as Gregson Street "Hated" to take a stab at rival George Washington Watts.

Reading street maps from east to west, you learned that "Watts Hated Duke."