Its Me wrote:
On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 5:51:58 PM UTC-4, Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:52:16 -0400, wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 11:07:22 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:
Think British, man. Think British!
I can't say it truly is in the queens arsenal today, though it might
be in reserves, but the Lewis showed its head at the Fauklands a few years ago.
Yeah you are right, They still have a Queen. I guess they never get
rid of any anachronism
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And they still drive on the left when most of the world is on the
right. How weird is that?
A few years ago I flew into London and drove about 80 miles to a town
north of there. I had rented a car, and made sure I got an automatic
transmission since I didn't want the added hassle of shifting a manual
with the wrong hand. Remembering to keep to the left was hard enough. I
had done it in the Cayman's but had a co-pilot with me then, in the UK I
was by myself. I was there a week, and still found myself walking up to
the left side of the car to get in most of the time. Old habits and all.
Company I worked for in the 80's, had a London area office. One of the
engineers from there was over here for 6 months. When he arrived back in
England, leaving the airport, forgot which country he was in, and got in a
head on accident. Low speed and no one hurt luckily.