"Jan Nielsen" wrote in message
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On 8 Jan 2006 11:08:22 -0800, wrote:
A friend of mine went to Ireland a while back and said he was doing ok
until the rain started. As he was driving with his wipers on, on a
country lane about 1 1/2 vehicles wide a car came over a hill directly
in front of him...and he turned quickly toward the side. Guess in what
direction... Oops. 
It was dark and stormy night.... in England, many years ago. I was
driving,
trying not to lose sight of our host who was leading (and going *fast*)
As I
was going into a right turn onto a small side road, a car came against us
from
the small road, without stopping. For a split second I fought with an
instinctive urge to keep to the right of the oncoming car - luckily I
didn't
give in!
My drowsing passengers was wide awake after that experience. g
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- JN -
It works both ways. When I worked in Saudi Arabia back in the '70's, women
weren't allowed to drive. (Still aren't). As a favor to a doctor friend,
I'd drive his wife down to the souk, (marketplace), quite a bit. She
constantly let out a scream whenever I pulled into traffic, until the half
second it took her to realize I actually was going the right way. They
drive on the left there, and she was British. Made me a nervous wreck every
trip, that woman, and took her a long time to get used to the traffic.
Figured out after a while that her little screams were why the doc got me to
do the trip.
Garrett Fulton