Today I went to get a manicure and pedicure with my mother-in-law and sister-in-law (light pink on my fingernails, sparkly blue on my toenails, thanks for asking) and I heard the woman across the aisle from me say she had just bought a house in Sherman Oaks. “Oh!” I said. “We just moved from there.” (Okay, it was two years ago. Whatever.) “Where is your house?”
She shrugged and said, “I’m not really too sure of how things are laid out there. It’s at Valley Vista and Crisp Canyon.”
Huh.
I had no clue where that was.
I asked her for a few things near there—she said she’d stayed at the Sportsmans Lodge, which is fairly near my old house—but she couldn’t really tell me specifically where it was.
Now, after I got home I looked it up on Mapquest, and indeed, Crisp Canyon Road is on the other side of Sherman Oaks from where I used to live. (I used to live near Valley Vista and Murietta, in case anyone cares.) So it’s not that surprising that I didn’t know it off-hand. But I got a shock from realizing, Wow, I really don’t know that area, and I’m going to lose whatever I did know about it.
Sparkly blue toenails rock!