left, right and center

[la_rainette]

It appears that it is not only left-handed people who have problems telling their left from their right, or so I read chez _skye_ .


Over here, I believe Froglet is the one who masters the whole situation best. Husband is clueless. I'm abysmal. Tadpole couldn't care less.

Taking directions from Husband when I drive gives 3 possibilities:

Number 1
Husband: "Turn left".
la rainette turns left.
Husband: "Good job"

Number 2
Husband: "Turn left"
la rainette turns right
Husband: "Good job"

So far so good.

Number 3
Husband: "Turn left"
la rainette goes to turn left
Husband: "I said left"
la rainette: "Isn't that left?"
Husband: "the other left"
la rainette: "What other left?"
Husband (roaring and pointing wildly, while la rainette drives straight on): "TURN THAT WAY! THAT WAY! Dammit, we missed it"

Eh. If you have the same problem, please raise your left hand. No, I said the left hand. :D Just joking.


I may be less present on LJ for a while: from tomorrow onwards my father-in-law will be visiting, so I may be too busy to post or comment much. Though I'm pretty sure I won't resist telling you about Froglet's first performance on stage, playing Simba's little sister in The Lion King!

And I still want to know how the croissant attempts go :D

Comments

[bookwench31.livejournal.com]

I always mess up left and right, especially when driving. Then I hit upon my fool-proof method. When I am sitting in the passenger seat giving directions I say, "take a my side" or "take a your side" When driving I explain this to my co-piolet. I get teased a lot but ever since I have started dong this I have yet to turn the wrong way.

P.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

*admires* what a brilliant idea! That will save us so much time and saliva in miscommunications on the road!

*makes note to try out with Husband. Suspects Husband will be insanely jealous because he didn't come up with the idea himself :D*

I don't care about being teased, I tend to get it wrong so I get teased anyway ;)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_skye_/]

YOU are very, very clever. When do we take over the world? I'm ready, AND I can instantly tell my left from my right, which evidentally is extremely rare. This would make me an excellent "hey you, over there!"-hand woman.

[bookwench31.livejournal.com]

"hey you, over there!"-hand woman
*laughs and laughs and laughs*

We shall take over. With your knowledge of right and left no one will be able to stop us!!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

*raises a hand he can't identify*

I NEVER learned right from left. There was a point in school at which it was vital that I know instantly, so I wrote R and L on my shoes.

Then I sighed, polished over them, and wrote L and R on them, cos I'd done it backwards.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing* That is SO funny.

When I was 6 my dance instructor informed my mom that I had serious co-ordination problems. Because, you know, I was always the last to follow her instructions. Eh. I always waited for the others to make the vital left-right decision first :D

[setissma.livejournal.com]

I did try to teach him with the hand trick, but he said he didn't want to look like a dork. :D This isn't quite as funny as the time I tried to teach Sam to tie his shoes. "Get a shoe." "Tai, you're never going to - " "GET A SHOE." "Now you do this this this." "Wait, what?" "THIS." "But you are tying your shoes exactly how I tie my shoes." "Oh. Then I guess that means I can't tie shoes either."

[bookwench31.livejournal.com]

How do you tie your shoes? Now I'm dying of curiosity. I didn't know there was a right way. As long as they stay on my feet.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

*nods* same as Patty. I'm happy with the way I tie my shoes as long as they remain tied. I didn't know you could tie your shoes and still not know how?

[bookwench31.livejournal.com]

In my job I hokey-pokey at least twice a week. I messed up right foot in, left foot in so many times and had to be corrected by small children no taller than my knee.
Now to save myself from humiliation I say "put this foot in, put this foot out" the other foot is refered to as "that foot" *facepalms* There is no hope for me.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing*
Now you get me to wonder how Froglet ever got it. Because she DOES know, she does! And she certainly didn't learn it from me!

[bookwench31.livejournal.com]

They just know....it's freaky.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

You are so adorable *hugs you left -- er -- righthandedly*

[bookwench31.livejournal.com]

*hugs back with both hands so as to avoid confusion*

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Also, in what other job could one claim to HOKEY POKEY TWICE A WEEK and MEAN IT LITERALLY :D

[http://users.livejournal.com/_skye_/]

Excellent point! Though this does make me wonder what I'm doing with my life that would sound vaguely obscene to other people...hmmm. I gotta go 'change some diapers' just doesn't do it, does it?

[bookwench31.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I dream about hokey-pokeying.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

There was a time I was welding so much I would dream about doing it, and then would wake up to find my hands in welding position...

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

I recently dreamed I was cleaning my house. I woke up exhausted to an un-cleaned house :(

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

*nods* I used to have that after hours and hours of driving - such as, driving from Birmingham, England, to my hometown Mulhouse in Alsace, overnight because that was when I could get the cheapest ferry fares.

And once arrived I would be trying to get some sleep, and I'd dream about driving and I'd wake up with a start, cos, hey, don't fall asleep at the wheel...