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Keith
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 9:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Driving on the left side of the road with a LHD car?

Suicidal!


I guess you've never driven in St. Thomas !! It's totally suicidal.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 7:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The worst part of left hand drive cars being driven on the left side of the road in the U.S. Virgin Islands is when you are the front seat passenger following a truck and the driver wants to pass. YOU get hung out over the center line so the driver can take a look around the truck to see if it's safe or not.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 10:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The worst part of left hand drive cars being driven on the left side of the road in the U.S. Virgin Islands is when you are the front seat passenger following a truck and the driver wants to pass. YOU get hung out over the center line so the driver can take a look around the truck to see if it's safe or not.


Its participatory driving- the passenger gets to be the spotter, and the driver has to have trust! Lived overseas in HS and it was a real eye opener, telling my dad when I thought it was ok to pass. Most times it was; there were 'oh sh**' moments however!
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 6:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Then there is always the tourists who forget which side of the road to drive on.....
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 6:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

After reading what Darren sez..... I figure we must have grown up in the same town and time, LOL the mosquito fogger days were the good old days!
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 11:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

and the ginger kid in the front seat looks like he his digging for gold!
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 12:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can't be any worse than standing on the running boards of my uncle's 39 Chevy, while going from neighborhood to neighborhood delivering newspapers. Shocked Had a lot of fun when I was a kid. Could you do most or any of those things today? I highly doubt it. Things were a lot different back then. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 1:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bobnotch wrote:
Can't be any worse than standing on the running boards of my uncle's 39 Chevy, while going from neighborhood to neighborhood delivering newspapers. Shocked Had a lot of fun when I was a kid. Could you do most or any of those things today? I highly doubt it. Things were a lot different back then. Rolling Eyes


My version was sitting on the tailgate delivering papers at 25mph. WHOA when you go over the rain drainage swales at intersections. Keds made funny noises when you dragged them on the pavement...
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 5:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

KTPhil wrote:
Bobnotch wrote:
Can't be any worse than standing on the running boards of my uncle's 39 Chevy, while going from neighborhood to neighborhood delivering newspapers. Shocked Had a lot of fun when I was a kid. Could you do most or any of those things today? I highly doubt it. Things were a lot different back then. Rolling Eyes


My version was sitting on the tailgate delivering papers at 25mph. WHOA when you go over the rain drainage swales at intersections. Keds made funny noises when you dragged them on the pavement...


Nowadays there would be 30 cell phone commandos calling 911 on you and social services would be at your door by the time you finished your paper route. Rolling Eyes
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