Older Drive-to-Work Roads
Retired couples, families with kids in school and people living on their own, side by side on roads where most people drive to work and the hours rarely line up.
Who lives here
Read on the street, not on a spreadsheet.
Most homes along these roads are detached houses, and the bulk of them went up before 1980, with apartment buildings and some mobile homes mixed in.
Among the people who live here, office and administrative workers come first, then sales workers and managers.
For the retired couples, to be useful. Many have a lifetime of skills and free daytime hours, and few people ever ask for them.
Where it is cracking
Signs, not proof of anythingYou cannot know the reason from the sidewalk.
A sample from the guide
Three pieces of the full textThe rest comes with the guide.
What you'll hear at the door
We're fine. We've got nowhere to be.
Said by a retired neighbor from a lawn chair in the garage.
Usually it's true, and said with some pride. Now and then it also means a week has gone by without anybody stopping.
What tends to backfire
Putting every plan on Sunday or a weeknight
You'd pick those hours first, and they may be when a shift worker is on the clock or a family is at practice. After two no's you may decide they aren't interested, when all they turned down was the time.
The hour you'd pick for a visit may be the hour your neighbor is asleep, so ask which day is theirs.
the guide
What to do this week, what to say, and why the news is good on this particular street.
The full guide carries the four first actions, three real conversation scenarios with the notes underneath each line, a story worth telling here, and the Gospel written into what this street is actually carrying. It is free, and it opens in the browser.