Left, NO! I meant the other left!
Roy July 23rd, 2008
I don’t believe anybody instinctively knows their right from their left, it’s easy for me to follow directions while driving …… because I know I’m sitting on the right! But the amount of times I’m told to turn into the sea or a wall is immeasurable.
Most people have a “method”, whether it’s blessing themselves, (less so nowadays in this unholy Ireland) or maybe pretending to write.
What’s yours? Or are you the exception that proves the rule and inherently know your right from left?
While I’m at it, why is it European + American cars have the petrol cap, indicators and light switches on one side of the car while Japanese + Korean cars have them on the other side?
It makes me look a proper plonker when I drive my wifes car and put the wipers on instead of indicating!
Are you right handed? ………Or a lefty/ kitog/devil handed?
The nuns used to tie left hands to the desk, to force kids to write with the “proper” hand.
Meanwhile over in the Arcade I’ve added “Camden Street” so called because it’s what I feel like doing some Friday and Saturday nights!
No comments so far on my last post, I used to care about that sort of thing ….now, I couldn’t give a shit, what does that tell you?
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I am a Kitog.
Never bashed for it cos I went to school in Rathfarninham!!
Seriously! (not me) The ammount of girls who say left… into a wall and the guys who know their left arm from their right hand is astounding!
Girls admit in my banger(sorry!Taxi) that they have a problem with their right and their lelt.
Never got a wrong (hammer) from a guy.
I am not going to say something stupid BUT
Girls don’t seem to know where it is coming from and where it is going?
Allways get’s a clean and relaxed laugh in my taxi cos I am an auld fella.
Oh! Roy you need another holliday.
I had two weeks in a row.
Batteries need to be charged in this game.
My mechanic went to Spain for the 2 weeks and ran into six Taximen and wives.
He told me he had to charge me extra for his inconvenience.
Rathfarmingham that’s where I live! brought up in the far posher Donnybrook though……..Battered by the brothers in Westland row!
Why do I need a holiday? because I want to kill the punters on Camden street or because I don’t give a shit about comments or is it because i’m a moany barsteward ?
Hey, you ended up with two! Or three if you add yours!
I know my right from my left! But my husband doesn’t and is always telling me the wrong one, or getting my instructions wrong – I end up directing him by saying “turn to you” or “turn to me”.
My easy way to tell people to check is to hold your hands out in front of you, palms towards you, with your thumbs sticking out at right angles to your hands – one hand will make an “L” shape – this is your left hand!
At least left and right are concepts that should be ingrained since early childhood. The directions I hate are “inside” and “outside”.
I remember taking a driving lesson and the instructor telling me “OK, move to the inside lane… inside lane … INSIDE lane!… I told you to move to the inside lane!!??”. But I thought I had moved to the inside lane. Completely ambiguous terms and dumb for an instructor to use them on a beginning driver.
Actually I still can’t remember which is supposed to be the inside lane. Give me left/right any day!
OK , I must be deformed if I do what Elly says I get the right hand, unless I look in the mirror then it would be the left, I will rely on memory.
@elly, that’s a cool trick!
@Dogbait, I’m not saying I don’t like comments just that some posts warrant them others don’t, which is fair enough.
@David What about “nearside” what’s that?’
@King Bob, When I read the excerpts in recent comments…. I thought you were ellys Husband! (read the first line of each to get my drift)Yes, the hands up thing works for non deformed people
Actually Bob you’re right she should have said Palms forward, no wonder her husband is confused!
Thank Christ!! I was off to the doctor to either get my brain or hands looked at, I am not a mentaller after all. Of course elly might live in a mirror imaged parallel universe.
@Elly it depends which way you hold your hands.
Fingers pointing skyward and thumb at 90°, my right hand forms the L.
Fingers touching and thumbs pointing skyward, the left hand forms an L.
Oh Roy! We may not comment each time, but we do read your posts, honest! [She says with her right hand -- or is it her left? -- against her chest.]
Just been away on hols to Portugal for 3 weeks and OH has been driving on the wrong side (or is it the right side?) of the road.
Why do we drive on the left?
Its easier to have the the handbrake/gears on your left too rather than the right.
So why cant we all drive on the same side of the road?
Thy have some strange turns in the road too….not very straight forward so i guess thats why they use their horns alot too.lol
They certainly don’t know their rights from their lefts too.
I know my left from my right, at least I thought I did…
until I tried Elly’s test!
Elly, you should get yourself a SatNav (if you don’t already have one) and the arrow will SHOW George which way to turn!
Best invention ever for dyslexic drivers.
I’m a righty but used to play hurling left hand swing then played golf right handedly but putt left handedly. I think that makes me half a Ciotóg or half daft or both.
Sometimes I write about the most inane of subjects and it gets a horde of comments while a serious subject gets ignored.
I have no sense of right or left. As a child, ballet classes were agony because I was invariably twirling in the opposite direction to all the other little girls. However, now, my problems are solved as I have a freckle on the inside of my right little finger which I can surreptitiously look at it when trying to work out which way is which. You did ask.
@Suzie, the world would be a lot simpler and cars would be a lot cheaper…. but alas!
@Steph, poor Ellys getting a lot of stick!
@Dogbait, are you saying my post is inane?
@Anne good use of the word (surreptitiously), this is the first time I’ve EVER used it!