Has anyone else noticed Oregon drivers seem fearful of making right turns?

[PiratePast40]

I recently started working as a school bus driver and am amazed at how some people drive, and how some pedestrians and bike riders have no concept of mass and velocity when challenging a large vehicle. Homeless are another group of complete unknowns. You have no idea what they'll do so you have no choice but to slow way down before you do anything.

The number of people that cut us off in the middle of curves is staggering.

Can't count the number of times a day that we just have to stop in the middle of the road because someone decides that they can squeak by parked cars AND the bus at the same time.

You just have to exercise patience and judgement, and not let other people get to you. The few seconds it takes to avoid bad situations goes a long way toward reducing anxiety and maintaining sanity.

 

[Duneblaster]

 

[1775usmc]

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Unfortunately they're here to stay.

 

[RVTECH]

.41 is the classic part!

View: https://youtu.be/CXk1882z5oo

 

[lucusloc]

It would be especially bad if in addition to being ambidextrous, you also spent six months of each year driving in the U.K.

Maybe we should use "Port" and "Starboard"?

I always thought it would be really neat to be ambidextrous. It would be absolutely awesome to be ambidextrous. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous!

lol, that would be ironic wouldn't it. And I would recommend against it, loss of the right arm or otherwise.

Its a neat party trick, but it's not all that it is cracked up to be. For starters no one tells you it is a right handed world when you are making decisions on how to learn things. When I was being taught to write I used both hands, and the teachers told me to pick one. I picked left, because I was 4 and had no idea there was a "correct" side. Yes, I can write just fine with my right hand. . . if I don't mind writing backwards, because all the forms are mirrored. I was learning the correct forms with both hands back in kindergarten, but they made me stop that because. . . reasons I guess? My mom is still pissed and sorry she let them do that.

I have tried learning to write the right way round with my right hand, but that is effectively learning to write all the forms all over again, because they are different shapes going from the center out rather than from the outside to the center. Honestly I do not do enough writing to make the effort worth it, and I write with my left when I want something to look decent and my right when whatever I am writing on does not support left handed writing (e.g. many touch screens with a stylus) and just deal with the garbage (and occasionally backwards) letters. "d"s and "b"s are especially problematic when doing this. I am just glad most of the world is moving away from handwriting altogether, because writing with your hands sucks.

There is also momentary frustration when I pick up chiral objects and cannot figure out why they do not work. Scissors are a good example, because they are designed to be used in the right hand, and using them in the left hand impedes their functionality (the blades are pushed apart rather than together). About 50% of the time I have to stop what I am doing, look at the object and figure out why it is not working, then either switch hands or switch up my grip to make things work.

Right tighty, left loosy? Clockwise and anti-clockwise? You you all can piss right the hell off. I have to stop what I am doing and examine the world for clues as to the proper direction. Text is the most common tell, and where there is not easily visible text around it can be difficult to sort this stuff out. But when the lady at the counter says "I need your right hand" I still look like a doofus as I glance around the room looking for a tell. Just point to the hand you want lady, I have no idea what you are asking for.

Yes there are nice things too, like being able to shoot off a barrier from either side exactly as good as everyone else shoots off only the right side or being able to solve an awkward position under a car by just switching hands. I occasionally surprise people by reading reflections or the back sides of printed windows without realizing it is backwards. And I can also really appreciate the problems true lefties have with firearms (and the rest of the world in general) because I can see first hand how things are just not designed for sinister use.

Most of these frustration are pretty trivial, but I deal with them all the damn time, to say nothing of the assumptions people make when using handed terminology and I just give them a blank stare as I try to parse the practical meaning of what they just said. Over all the practical downsides outweigh the neat tricks. I may take that back if I ever have to use those neat tricks for real, but it does seem that "handed" people manage serious jobs just fine even with the handicap. The jury is still out on that one.

 

[lucusloc]

.41 is the classic part!

View: https://youtu.be/CXk1882z5oo

I laughed because I agree with the sentiment, but then I am also a Cali fugitive who fled that state looking for somewhere slightly less insane. I absolutely agree that anyone who prefers Cali politics should just stay there. I just want one decently red state on the pacific northwest coast, is that too much to ask?

 

[Certaindeaf]

lol, that would be ironic wouldn't it. And I would recommend against it, loss of the right arm or otherwise.

Its a neat party trick, but it's not all that it is cracked up to be. For starters no one tells you it is a right handed world when you are making decisions on how to learn things. When I was being taught to write I used both hands, and the teachers told me to pick one. I picked left, because I was 4 and had no idea there was a "correct" side. Yes, I can write just fine with my right hand. . . if I don't mind writing backwards, because all the forms are mirrored. I was learning the correct forms with both hands back in kindergarten, but they made me stop that because. . . reasons I guess? My mom is still pissed and sorry she let them do that.

I have tried learning to write the right way round with my right hand, but that is effectively learning to write all the forms all over again, because they are different shapes going from the center out rather than from the outside to the center. Honestly I do not do enough writing to make the effort worth it, and I write with my left when I want something to look decent and my right when whatever I am writing on does not support left handed writing (e.g. many touch screens with a stylus) and just deal with the garbage (and occasionally backwards) letters. "d"s and "b"s are especially problematic when doing this. I am just glad most of the world is moving away from handwriting altogether, because writing with your hands sucks.

There is also momentary frustration when I pick up chiral objects and cannot figure out why they do not work. Scissors are a good example, because they are designed to be used in the right hand, and using them in the left hand impedes their functionality (the blades are pushed apart rather than together). About 50% of the time I have to stop what I am doing, look at the object and figure out why it is not working, then either switch hands or switch up my grip to make things work.

Right tighty, left loosy? Clockwise and anti-clockwise? You you all can piss right the hell off. I have to stop what I am doing and examine the world for clues as to the proper direction. Text is the most common tell, and where there is not easily visible text around it can be difficult to sort this stuff out. But when the lady at the counter says "I need your right hand" I still look like a doofus as I glance around the room looking for a tell. Just point to the hand you want lady, I have no idea what you are asking for.

Yes there are nice things too, like being able to shoot off a barrier from either side exactly as good as everyone else shoots off only the right side or being able to solve an awkward position under a car by just switching hands. I occasionally surprise people by reading reflections or the back sides of printed windows without realizing it is backwards. And I can also really appreciate the problems true lefties have with firearms (and the rest of the world in general) because I can see first hand how things are just not designed for sinister use.

Most of these frustration are pretty trivial, but I deal with them all the damn time, to say nothing of the assumptions people make when using handed terminology and I just give them a blank stare as I try to parse the practical meaning of what they just said. Over all the practical downsides outweigh the neat tricks. I may take that back if I ever have to use those neat tricks for real, but it does seem that "handed" people manage serious jobs just fine even with the handicap. The jury is still out on that one.

Have you tried licking a 9 volt battery?

 

[Provincial]

.41 is the classic part!

View: https://youtu.be/CXk1882z5oo

And Blitz later was sold to a series of the Eastern brewing companies like the ones they denigrated in their ads. Another Oregon business that fell victim to consolidation when the regulators decided that buying out competitors was OK as long as prices were not raised, at least not right away.

 

[CamoDeafie]

I recently started working as a school bus driver

Mid-Columbia?

lol hand rants

TL, DR; Lucus is left handed and hates trying to figure out which way things are.

I laughed because I agree with the sentiment, but then I am also a Cali fugitive who fled that state looking for somewhere slightly less insane. I absolutely agree that anyone who prefers Cali politics should just stay there. I just want one decently red state on the pacific northwest coast, is that too much to ask?

Do Alaska not count????

 

[lucusloc]

Do Alaska not count????

Alaska will only count when I can convince the wife to let me move there. Until then I am stuck in the lower 48.

 

[PiratePast40]

Mid-Columbia?

Salem.