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Re:Whatever works for you by toddheasley on Monday November 28, 2011 @08:03PM (#3288454)
My wife's friend recently moved from a large city, where she didn't have a car, to live with her boyfriend in a smaller town. It's a smaller town without much public transit. My wife's friend knows how to drive, but her boyfriend's car has a manual transmission. On a recent visit, the friend is complaining that her boyfriend won't teach her how to drive his car. Being proud of the fact that I (barely) know how to drive a stick, I volunteer to teach her. Her boyfriend doesn't object, so out to the car we go. I drive to a nearby empty parking lot and trade seats with my wife's friend. She's ready to learn.

"The pedal to the left of the brake is the clutch. Push it all the way to the floor," I begin. She takes her left foot off the brake and pushes in the clutch...

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Re:Whatever works for you by WildUtah on Monday November 28, 2011 @10:08PM (#3288818)
Wait, why was her left foot on the brake? Is she a leg amputee? Are you in Ireland or Japan or some other tiny island where everything is on the wrong side?
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Re:Whatever works for you by nl on Monday November 28, 2011 @11:28PM (#3289051)
Are you in Ireland or Japan or some other tiny island where everything is on the wrong side?

Australia is pretty large...

78 countries (28% of the worlds traffic) drive on the left [1]. These include countries like India, Pakistan and Indonesia with fairly significant populations.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic#Ju...

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Re:Whatever works for you by TeMPOraL on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @02:50AM (#3289535)
> 78 countries (28% of the worlds traffic) drive on the left.

Thanks for data, I didn't realize how many left-driving countries were there; I thought it was only UK and Australia.

Still, they don't drive on the right side. :).

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Re:Whatever works for you by toddheasley on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @07:03AM (#3294756)
I can assure you that this was in the United States.
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