I am not a person who enjoys driving a car however, I am grateful that I can get myself around to various places. My friends have always teased me though on the fact that I do not like to make left hand turns and I do them rarely.
I decided that my character DeMaris in my latest book Beg(ga)(he)r (www.jrarmstrong.net) needed a few quirks of her own so -- she also does not make left hand turns when driving. Instead she makes 3 right hand turns. It works just fine.
Imagine my surprise when I read a short article on the merits of skipping left turns and going to the right. You save time, gas and money by not sitting idling in the left turn lane. And it's also proven to cause less accidents.
We used to give my mother a hard time because she always looked for a way out of making any left-handed turns. It was just one of many idiosyncrasies we loved about her!
ReplyDeleteI've never known anybody else who went out of their way to avoid turning left. Thanks for letting me know I'm not alone!
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