GD & CP's UK adventure

[Ghoulish Delight]

And as one final footnote, I posted this today:

Arriving back from the UK, I've had no problem driving on the right side of the road. I didn't drive at all while there and was only a passenger in street transport all of 4 times, relying almost entirely on the Underground, walking, and various other trains. So I never had to retrain that part of my brain.

Yesterday I got some work done on my car at lunch. So I dropped it off and walked to grab something to eat while I waited.

I don't walk much here. I walked a LOT in the UK. This was the first time I'd walked across a street since getting back, and holy crap I confused myself!

Interestingly, making things more difficult was the fact that I never really got completely used to the whole "traffic coming from the wrong direction" thing. Even by the end of the trip I had to consciously take a moment before stepping off a curb to be sure I'd looked in all the right ways. What I found when I stepped off the curb yesterday was that as far as my brain was concerned, that rule was still in effect. So I started looking one way. Then my brain said, "No, wait, are you sure that's the right way? Because you're back here now, and maybe your instinct is to look the wrong way first! Wait, no, my instinct is still right, I should look this way...wait, should I? If I look was looking right there when I'd look left here, and I look left here when I'd look right there, and I felt like right now I should look left, then I should look right...right? Aaaargh!!"

Bizarre to encounter that a full week after returning.


And a final P.S. I bought the whiskey and will be receiving it in a couple weeks when our host comes stateside for a conference/job interviews.