Mike Macgirvin
Diary and Other Rantings
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Friday, May 16 2008, 08:17 pm
Aug 31, 2007
Your left (you're right)

Driving on the wrong side of the road has now become second nature. It only takes one or two slip-ups to realize that your life depends on being on the right (oops, I mean correct, which is the left) side of the road. I did two slip-ups early on and I'm pretty well over it now.

But negotiating hallways in busy places is a different story. Your life isn't in jeapordy if you walk on the right hand side of the corridor. But everybody here walks on the left as well.

Well, not everybody as it turns out. The uni is full of exchange students from all over the world. You can see them coming - and they usually walk on the right hand side. It's bloody inconsiderate. My brain is already tortured with doing everything backwards and then one of these foreign students walks by on the wrong side and it just totally messes everything up. Then I have to consciously think about which side I'm on, and my brain is telling me I'm on the wrong side, even though I'm on the correct one. 

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