rev up your engines, if you've ever wondered how people drive in Great
Britain then today's your lucky day, because I took a trip to England to find
out, first of all they drive on the left side of the road, they claim that they
drive on the left side of the road because when people originally were
riding horses, you would get on the left side of the horse and you'd have your
sword on the left side so you didn't have to swing it over, and then when
you're riding down the road if you're right-handed, you could grab your sword
and fight people, and so if you're mounting a horse from the left, you're
mounting away from traffic, if you mounted on the right you'd be in the
roadside and you'd be mounting the horse where all the traffic is, let's face it
most people don't ride horses anymore for transportation, they drive cars with
wheels, and it makes no difference then, because the English have their steering
wheel on the right side where the American passenger would sit, so when you
get in an English car, you are going into traffic in order to get into the car, now
that of course is an inherent problem with any wheeled vehicle that has doors
on it, because here in the States hey we drive on the right, but we enter
on the left where the steering column is, so we're entering in traffic too, it just
has to be that way because when you're passing people you have to have the
steering wheel on the side that's out so you can see if people are coming the
other way, militarily when you have wheeled
vehicles it makes more sense to drive on the right-hand side of the road, and
Napoleon certainly would agree with that and he made all the countries he
conquered drive on the right-hand side, and it's probably one of the reasons the
English still driving a left-hand side of the road, they don't want to get along
with the French so they're gonna do the opposite, I've been to the British Virgin
Islands where the situation is crazy, it's British territory so they
drive on the left-hand side of the road, but the nearest place that they buy
cars from is Florida in the United States, so most of the cars are left hand
drive, so the steering wheels on the wrong side of the road for driving
especially for passing, now I drove there and it's a good thing it's a small
island, so you don't have to drive all that far and most of that island
speed limit is like 20 miles an hour, even on the main roads, because hey when
you got your steering wheel on the wrong side it's not that safe to pass, so the
speed limit is so low that even on some of their highways, the highways have
speed bumps on them, now another thing I noticed in England was, they had some
pretty strange signs that I'd never seen before, some of them didn't seem to make
much sense at all, so them were old-fashioned and somewhat humorous, some
of them didn't make any sense to me, I had no idea what it meant, and others
were in strange languages that I've never seen before, they do tend to drive
smaller cars but it's for a good reason, now the gasoline or petrol as they call
it, may seem cheap at a dollar forty six point nine, but that figure is actually
one point four six pounds per liter, since there's three point seven eight
five liters per gallon, and one point three four dollars per pound, that's
actually seven dollars and forty cents a gallon in our money for gasoline, they
often drive strange cars we've never heard of, they have Mercedes garbage
trucks, and the policemen drive BMW station wagons, they also have animal
crossings, heck even the geese cross to the left in
England, and if you don't like driving on the left side, you can always take a cab
and since the English do so much drinking and I joined in with them, I took many a cab, so
now you know a little bit about how the English drive, and if you want to learn it
yourself, hey take a trip over there people are really friendly, so if you
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