Have you given much thought to having the steering wheel on the other side?
How about this....
Ever wondered if you could drive on the left side, with the steering wheel where you're used to having your passenger seat WHILE shifting with your left hand? Oh, and while you're shifting, don't forget to use your turn signals, especially if you're in a roundabout.This is my loaner car. You know, the tiny little thing I will cram all of my children into for the next week or more while the body shop (not the one with yummy smelling, free trade body butters) fixes my bumper from a previous skirmish with a buried stump.
Norfolk residents may want to stay off of the roadways for a few days (or at least avoid all places where one may have to shift down while turning).
FYI: I have a real life friend that has just started her very first ever blog. I've blogged about her before but I used her real name so I can't link you to those posts (bad me), but trust me, she's great. The woman was born and raised in Norfolk and has never been anywhere else. We're changing that. Will you swing by and welcome her?
Hmm, no thanks. I'll let you do the driving. :) Does your regular car have everything on the "right" side?
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ReplyDeleteThanks for putting that song in my head for the next week.
My brain would not be able to do that mirror image thing. I'd be putting the door handle in drive.
I don't know how you drive over there! My brother (who got his Masters at Cambridge) caused an accident by accidentally going into the right lane at the end of a round-about.
ReplyDeleteif you can't link how do we find her? what's the news on Beany?
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I could do that or not, it might be one time in my life where being dyslexic would be beneficial. Who knows? I wouldn't mind trying looks like a nice car.
I would so not be able to do that. Let me know how that works for you. :)
ReplyDeleteThat whole shifting with the left hand, blinking and wrong side of the road has made me dizzy. And I have only had two sips of my martini.
ReplyDeleteOh dear! Good luck with that one! Definitely better you than me. Hope they get your car fixed up good as new soon.
ReplyDeleteOh the roads would not be safe with me driving like that, too unnatural! Have fun!
ReplyDeleteeven though I have driven a stick for 15 years I don't know if I could do it left handed.
ReplyDeleteI had thought about how hard it would be to drive on the wrong side of the road, and from the wrong side of the car, but I never even considered trying to drive stick on the wrong side. GOOD LUCK!! Are the gas, brake and clutch turned around too? I'd never make it either way.
ReplyDeletePopping over to your friends blog now....
I'm scared just looking at that dash! I don't know if I'd be coordinated enough to switch. Good luck to you (and the residents of Norfolk!)
ReplyDeleteI'll go welcome your friend to the bloggy thing.
Couldn't do it. Nope. What's up with that anyway? When did that whole left thing start?
ReplyDeleteI'm honestly not sure I could do that. I have a hard enough time driving my own car, after driving a forklift at work all day.
ReplyDeleteWhat I want to know is how you drive your actual vehicle on the left side of the road?
I do think that would take some getting used to shifting with the left hand. Hmmm good luck to you!
ReplyDeleteAll I know is... whenever I watch "The Holiday" and Cameron Diaz has to drive Kate Winslet's car to town, I nearly pass out.
ReplyDeleteI have never taken the opportunity to drive outside of North America - I am a bit of a chicken!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHey - it is day 15 of NaBloPoMo...mid way there...I put a link to your site from mine!
goign to check out the new blog! Cheers!
Being english... That's how a car should be.. but I've lived in other countries, and driven cars which are mirror images to mine. I was always surprised how easy it was to change over... I'd drive my little right-hand drive car in to work, and be out in the various work vans or the boss's car during the day, without any feeling of difficulty.
ReplyDeleteThe real victim, of course, is the front seat passenger, desperate for a wheel... and a BRAKE PEDAL!!! Oh how I would laugh. And I would persuade my passenger to be painting her nails as we sped through a busy intersection. or have eyes shut, hands behind her head, and watch the aghast faces of those who assumed she was the driver.
Later, I acquired a steering wheel out of a scrapyard, and fitted it on the left. So then my passenger and I would make big gestures of turning the wheel the wrong way at junctions. or steer in unison.or mirror each other. I fitted a bright coloured squeezy horn from a kid's playcar too. It lightened things up. Instead of screaming, you could grip the wheel and honk loudly.
I live in Yorkshire, which is a bit further north than Norfolk, we have a US base nearby, a place called Menwith Hill. US personnel used to ship out the huge gas guzzlers, and then discover their folly. Our country roads are narrow and winding. With blind bends. Meet a tractor and you may have to back up for a quarter of a mile, with both sides of your car brushing the hedges. Or the stone walls.
Now either they mostly drive Japanese cars, or they remain holed up in the "little America" inside the base, because I see far fewer panicking drivers in land-boats.
Ummm
ReplyDeletePedals are the same, wherever you are. Driving on the side you do stems from rejecting all things british after your illegal insurgency and terrorist-led revolution against the proper authorities in the 1700s.
You'd be surprised to find how much of the world drives on the left. Like Japan, for instance..
I would have had the same panic had I been asked to drive when we were in Canada and the States, and then later, in Mexico...Oh boy, now that was a nightmare. But luckily for me JP would not risk letting me behind the wheel.I know those narrow Norfolk roads; bonne chance,my dear.
ReplyDeletei'm soooo mad because...i am NOT a beatles fan...especially not THAT song!!! *shakes fist at you*
ReplyDeleteok...off to check out your irl friends blog!!
and...i'm doing a giveaway over on mine!
xo
Well it does take some time to master that right side thing! Been to GB 4x and did really well, except I let my Brit friend drive in the city closer to her environs. :) Those roundabouts are killers...be careful! Off to check out your friends blog...come visit mine!
ReplyDeletei've adjusted to it but still get all freaked out at the angle of the mirrors. they just seem "off"
ReplyDeletewhen we were in England last summer I made my hubby do all the driving! ;) he he he
ReplyDelete(he did a great job, too, and never once drove on the wrong side of the road)
Maybe I am missing something. I can not see how to link to your friend's blog.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure how I would manage driving on the right. It is bad enough being in the passenger seat when my husband drives on the right.
OMGosh...we went to Australia last year and THANK goodness it was an automatic!! From the break to the windshield wipers (I feel like I am typing this backwards even... tehe). What a talent it is to even drive that way (especially a manual trans)..you go girl!!!
ReplyDeleteWe were in Bermuda in the spring, on a scooter. When we hit the roundabout, the whole wrong-side-of-the-road thing was so bad we got off at the wrong spot and had to go to the next roundabout to turn around. Glad I'm not going to be in your path!
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