This thread should be renamed: "Saints players perform simple tasks whilst pretending to use Garmin products"
Wonder if Gabbi has got used to right-hand drive yet.? Sorry, I'm a nerd at heart. I think of these things.
Having just arrived back from Spain, just over 2 hours ago, I thought exactly the same. Many times, after a long spell over here, I find myself climbing into the wrong seat, in Spain, then wonder where the steering wheel has gone. Didn't happen this time, but remembering to leave extra space on your right, owing to there being more car that side, when passing parked cars needed a bit of thought.
I drive a lot abroad and always get asked this by friends and work colleagues. It never causes me a second thought. Lots of other people do as you mentioned though but I've not experienced that. Odd.
I lived in Spain for several years, so driving "on the wrong side" became second nature. My mental aberration would then happen in the UK, as in going to the passenger side before remembering where I was. In my defence it usually only happens when I am pre-occupied with something. This was my first time back there for around 10 months, so I fully expected it to happen, but it didn't. Nor did I rap my knuckles on the driver's door, reaching for the gear stick with the wrong hand. Done that before.
About 20 years ago I was driving in France at least one weekend every month, as I lived in Kent and took the Shuttle. Many years earlier in the early 1980's I'd decided that this driving in the right lane issue was to be cracked before I had a problem. So the first time I drove there I realised that everything you view is reversed. Almost immediately practically any potential problem disappeared. I do find that driving a left hand drive car in Europe is more natural than driving a right hand drive, so if I have a preference, I like to hire a car rather than take one of my own. Of course, touring with a motorcycle presents no problems at all.
When drivng around Mallorca, I sometimes say to my friend, we "turn right", knowing I'm turning left, but the spoken word comes out incorectly due to the driver's seat being on the right in the UK.
been driving on the right now for 12 years so yes it comes naturally, but only last week I was driving down a single track road and met a car coming the other way. Without the white line down the middle of the road my brain forgot 12 years of practice, reset and made me swerve to the left! other driver not too impressed!
Got to admit that when I first started driving on the continent I came off an autoroute and nearly went round a roundabout the wrong way. Luckily [or unluckily] a ****ing great articulated truck was coming straight at me so I quickly went the right way instead. That cured me.
Exactly what I do every time I go to see my daughter in Atlanta and borrow her car So much so my other half says turn American Right or turn American Left