Forgetting which side of the road you are on

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I’ve done it, on both sides of the water, in cars, trucks and on a motorbike.
It’s usually only for a few yards, and then something kicks in > what country are you in idiot?

On one occasion I drove for a few hundred yards after turning right out of a wide one way street, I just followed the kerb round to the right, then realised that the car coming towards me wasn’t the prat, I was :open_mouth: :unamused:

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drew128:
I haven’t managed yet, but I have got my hand well and truly struck in a door pocket while trying a quick gear change. Another thing is waving your arm around in the middle of the cab looking for the seatbelt :blush:

hugely embarrasing especially when the passenger is having the time of his life watching you :laughing: :laughing:

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Vascoingles:

drew128:
I haven’t managed yet, but I have got my hand well and truly struck in a door pocket while trying a quick gear change. Another thing is waving your arm around in the middle of the cab looking for the seatbelt :blush:

hugely embarrasing especially when the passenger is having the time of his life watching you :laughing: :laughing:

Or even trying to change gear with the door handle, when you remembered what side the steering wheel was on :laughing:

:grimacing:

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Sprinter:

Vascoingles:

drew128:
I haven’t managed yet, but I have got my hand well and truly struck in a door pocket while trying a quick gear change. Another thing is waving your arm around in the middle of the cab looking for the seatbelt :blush:

hugely embarrasing especially when the passenger is having the time of his life watching you :laughing: :laughing:

Or even trying to change gear with the door handle, when you remembered what side the steering wheel was on :laughing:

:grimacing:

Ime obviously missing something here but why would driving on the other side of the road make you do that?

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Suedehead:
Ime obviously missing something here but why would driving on the other side of the road make you do that?

Drew is driving Polish, LHD car now.

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Sprinter:

Vascoingles:

drew128:
I haven’t managed yet, but I have got my hand well and truly struck in a door pocket while trying a quick gear change. Another thing is waving your arm around in the middle of the cab looking for the seatbelt :blush:

hugely embarrasing especially when the passenger is having the time of his life watching you :laughing: :laughing:

Or even trying to change gear with the door handle, when you remembered what side the steering wheel was on :laughing:

:grimacing:

you obviously have not forgottem Oh great round one :laughing: :unamused:

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orys:

Suedehead:
Ime obviously missing something here but why would driving on the other side of the road make you do that?

Drew is driving Polish, LHD car now.

I changed from LHD to RHD quite often, never had a problem though driving on the correct side of the road, if the roads are old fashioned and the traffic slow then I should be on the left hand side of the road and if the motorway food is edible and life is good then I should be driving on the right, thats easy, much harder to change actions from LHD to RHD. I can start a new thread if you feel unable to cope :smiley:

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drew128:

orys:

Suedehead:
Ime obviously missing something here but why would driving on the other side of the road make you do that?

Drew is driving Polish, LHD car now.

I changed from LHD to RHD quite often, never had a problem though driving on the correct side of the road, if the roads are old fashioned and the traffic slow then I should be on the left hand side of the road and if the motorway food is edible and life is good then I should be driving on the right, thats easy, much harder to change actions from LHD to RHD. I can start a new thread if you feel unable to cope :smiley:

And there was me thinking the title of the thread was “forgetting which side of the road you are on”
Silly me :unamused:

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Suedehead:

drew128:

orys:

Suedehead:
Ime obviously missing something here but why would driving on the other side of the road make you do that?

Drew is driving Polish, LHD car now.

I changed from LHD to RHD quite often, never had a problem though driving on the correct side of the road, if the roads are old fashioned and the traffic slow then I should be on the left hand side of the road and if the motorway food is edible and life is good then I should be driving on the right, thats easy, much harder to change actions from LHD to RHD. I can start a new thread if you feel unable to cope :smiley:

And there was me thinking the title of the thread was “forgetting which side of the road you are on”
Silly me :unamused:

Most threads seem to go off at a tangent, start off on a subject and suddenly disappear completely elsewhere. The above is all part and parcel of swapping LHD to RHD to driving on the left and right, it seems close enough to the subject to me, sorry to have caused you offense.

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drew128:

Suedehead:

drew128:

orys:

Suedehead:
Ime obviously missing something here but why would driving on the other side of the road make you do that?

Drew is driving Polish, LHD car now.

I changed from LHD to RHD quite often, never had a problem though driving on the correct side of the road, if the roads are old fashioned and the traffic slow then I should be on the left hand side of the road and if the motorway food is edible and life is good then I should be driving on the right, thats easy, much harder to change actions from LHD to RHD. I can start a new thread if you feel unable to cope :smiley:

And there was me thinking the title of the thread was “forgetting which side of the road you are on”
Silly me :unamused:

Most threads seem to go off at a tangent, start off on a subject and suddenly disappear completely elsewhere. The above is all part and parcel of swapping LHD to RHD to driving on the left and right, it seems close enough to the subject to me, sorry to have caused you offense.

No offenCe taken matey, must admit it took me a while to get to grips with a lhd motor, drive it in the ditch :laughing:
PS dont really need any driving advice off of you ■■■■■

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Suprised nobodys mentioned this one… and i’ve seen it done a few times:

Been driving a LHD truck for a few days already, walk back to the truck, (maybe chatting with someone on the way) climb in through right side door… oh the look on their face when the realizisation sets in… ooh look, sombeodys stolen the steering wheel! :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth:

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Driveroneuk:
Suprised nobodys mentioned this one… and i’ve seen it done a few times:

Been driving a LHD truck for a few days already, walk back to the truck, (maybe chatting with someone on the way) climb in through right side door… oh the look on their face when the realizisation sets in… ooh look, sombeodys stolen the steering wheel! :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth:

Hehe, that’s reminds me of my first work in UK. I was driving a sprinter van for laundry company, and altough it was quite fast for me to get used to using right cab doors, I was keeping forgeting that my side doors are on the left. So I was always running arround the van, all the time.

Some customers started to call me “Dancing with the Sprinters” :wink:

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Yes I have done it myself in Rouen about 10 years ago ended up going up the street the wrong side of the road for about 100 yards OMG :blush: luckily it was about 11 pm so I don’t think anyone saw me :smiley:

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Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit,did it today,we are in the Uk for 3 weeks,left B&Q ,went around roundabout on wrong side,ended up facing 2 cars,said to my wife ,look at these prats and then realised I was the prat.

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I have managed to drive on the wrong side of the road a few times, always in the UK for some reason and usually on quiet roads or late at night.
I had to pick up a new truck once and they had parked it outside the show room on the right hand side of the road, my boss was following me back to a garage for fuel, so I jumped in the truck, drove 30 yards and onto a roundabout the wrong way…It needed an emergency stop from me and another truck on the roundabout to avoid a collision :blush: My boss told me he would have sacked me if the new truck was bent :open_mouth:

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Driveroneuk:
Suprised nobodys mentioned this one… and i’ve seen it done a few times:

Been driving a LHD truck for a few days already, walk back to the truck, (maybe chatting with someone on the way) climb in through right side door… oh the look on their face when the realizisation sets in… ooh look, sombeodys stolen the steering wheel! :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth:

A tip, to help disguise your …erm… slip (?) :laughing:
(I was given this tip many years ago :blush: )

Put a spare pair of gloves at the door on the passenger side.
When you open the door, either door, check to make sure the steering wheel is there before climbing in ( you have to do this bit every time, so it becomes habit).
If there’s no steering wheel, grab those spare gloves, put them on and find some reason for wearing them quickly, :bulb: checking your load is a good one, you need gloves to open the back doors :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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it happens to everyone sometimes i done it in holland youtube.com/watch?v=BDyAjpWh6DE have a look at their other advers they well funny pigpen

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Happened to me for the first time last week.Funny smell in cab after the event. :blush: :blush: :blush: :blush:

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Bear:
Happened to me for the first time last week.Funny smell in cab after the event. :blush: :blush: :blush: :blush:

Bear droppings by any chance ■■?

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Happen’s every time I come back,Wife soon put’s me right. :blush: