Just imagine if you had THIS street address:
PICO RIVERA, California (AP) — It’s not easy living on Dork Street — just ask Mario Saucedo.
“I had a resume kicked back because someone thought I was kidding,” said Saucedo, who has lived on the street in this suburb about a dozen miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles for eight years.
Ester Avetisian, who moved there 18 years ago, said she might have thought twice if there had been a sign in those days marking the road tucked into what is still a semi-rural section of town where people keep goats and chickens in their back yards.
“I didn’t know the name until my husband and I were signing (mortgage) papers,” Avetisian recalled. “I was pretty shocked when I found out.”
No one knows when it started.
Officials say there is no record at City Hall explaining how the street got its distinctive moniker, but residents believe it was named after someone called Dork. It first appeared on a Los Angeles County tract map in 1936.
“It’s obviously historic, and it seems like streets named for last names are the norm in that area,” city spokesman Bob Spencer said.
Well, there have been a lot of Dorks thoughout history.
A large community of Dorks exists. They’re sent from all over the country to work in a building called Congress.
PS: Kucinich and Keyes don’t live on Dork Street. They live here.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.