Yeah, but I missed a whole bunch of potential opportunities.
I could have had the speaker live on Elm street, instead of Harboraz street. Then I could have launched into a whole dissertation about how the Elm was a kind of large plant native to the planet, that it belonged to a class of plant known as “trees”, that streets often bore the names of types of trees – not because the streets had such trees on them, nor because of a fascination with the trees themselves, but because political expediency required the city council to pick street names that were neutral and pleasant and wouldn’t result in being voted out of office in the next election – etc…