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Skriven 2015-03-27 16:04:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DALE SHIPP
Ärende: Re: pluses and minuses 3
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-=> Quoting Dale Shipp to Nancy Backus on 03-24-15  23:38 <=-

 RH> I was a back seat passenger in London, in an American car. Still,
 RH> quite an interesting experience and I'd go back. Didn't do as much
 RH> sight seeing there as I wished but.....................

 DS> When we lived in England, I had a British right hand drive with a
 DS> three on the column shift.  Our family car was a four on the floor
 DS> shift, and left hand drive.  It was interesting for me to switch back
 DS> and forth between them.

I had a British floor stick shift... good thing I was ambidextrous... It
worked just fine for me... :)  More interesting to me was that in just a
short time, I'd managed to retrain my reflexes to look the "wrong" way
first, to check for traffic...  ;)  My home car was also a floor stick
shift.  I thought it a very good thing that the placement of the pedals
hadn't changed, though... Clutch was still left foot, accelerator and
brake the right... 
 
 NB>> All the sight-seeing I've done in London and environs, I used mass
 NB>> transport for... don't have to worry about finding parking that
 NB>> way... :)  

 DS> In a similar way, when you look at a scene of cars on New York City
 DS> streets, a large majority of them are taxis.  With the cost of parking
 DS> and insurance many people do not bother trying to own a car in the
 DS> city. 

My brother lives in Brooklyn and works (at least he used to) in
Manhattan... He hasn't owned a car for years... always rents one when he
needs to travel outside of NYC... like to visit here for Christmas, or
to join us for family camping... we never know what he'll be driving...
When I visited him, I found an on-street parking spot not too far away,
and just left the car there... any sightseeing or research etc I used
mass transit...

Another trip, I was one of those infrequent non-taxis driving through...
when I was taking my "English" sister and two of her kids from one
family member's house to another (Hudson Valley area to Annapolis area)
after a family wedding she'd come home for... :)

ttyl      neb

... If we had some bread we could have ham sandwiches...if only we had ham

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