Names

Names are more contagious than injuries in baseball.  It doesn't matter if it's the name of a store or a person's name.  Once a name is given, expect similarity to follow suit.  If you're hungry for a burger, you could go to Burger King, Burger Flame, Burger Cabin or Burger Fuel.  That actually sounds more like the days of the week to me or more specifically a friday night but the point is that they all just have the name burger followed by a noun.

Then there's the companies that name their business after the street that they are on.  This kind name is the most addictive of them all.  Businesses that find themselves on these kind of streets are given the choice of naming their business after the street or move to a different street.  These streets are very powerful often holding prominent positions within municipal, provincial and federal government.

In an attempt to stop this, a local business "687 Takeaways" tried to leave their street name out of their address.  However, not fully understanding the exponential law of business names, soon other business started following the trend.  Now there's 587 takeaways, 543 bakery, 843 clock repair and 444 printing.  These numbered businesses are refusing to cooperate with the street-named businesses, which have created a bunch of confused people driving around unable to find anything and even forcing a small group of people to actually cook their own meals eat at home.  Why not vote for an actual person in the upcoming election instead of a street to start solving these problems?  I might but right now my vote is leaning toward a broom or possibly a mop to clean this mess up.