When I crossed the street today (in order to buy a diet coke and make some change for laundry), I looked left, then right, then right, then left again, turning my head in a sort of cartoony circle. I probably looked like an idiot, but when I reached the liquor store, I was a living idiot, and that's what matters to me
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Every time I go into a church in the UK, if there are candles to be had, I light one, and I always feel the exact same way you expressed above. :) I also can't cope with the "just think backwards" thing...I just look both ways 2, 3, 4 times...
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i like this a lot. :)
lacey
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came to this site from one drew cox's site which i came to from his facebook which i came to from... you know how it goes. i'm glad the uk was good to you, jolly old england is better than sri lanka any day.
laughed at your directional defiance disorder. each time i switch between u.s. and u.k., my first few days are always think mirror image, think everything as a reflection, if it feels wrong it's probably right. but then i have a bit of trouble with my cars because even though the wheels are opposite, the brake and accelerator pedals are actually the same.
the moral of the tale is this: if you ever pick me up from an airport - u.k. or u.s. - don't let me drive you home.
looking forward to reading back through your blog (there must be a fancier of-the-moment term to describe the act of finding a blog and rifling through its archives?)
short story:
*bookmark*
anne
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