UNC

I was sitting in my college dorm room the other day when my roommate and I had the strangest discussion. The topic that so heavily occupied our interest on this particular rainy weekday afternoon had to do with driving cars. It was not a discussion of what car we like the best or which car can go the fastest. Instead, it was about driving on the right or  left hand side driving. We were curious as to which way seemed the most practical, or did it really matter in the first place. My roommate and I were watching a foreign film and we could not help but notice that the characters were driving on the right hand side of the road. It is a startling sight when you first make such an observation. You think cars are going to run into each other. Plus, if you take a quick glance, it looks like no one is driving the vehicle. Automatically, as a driver in the States, you expect to see the driver on the left hand side of the car. It does not add up otherwise since we are so readily exposed to something different. We knew in some foreign drivers drove on the other side, but it was just striking to actually see someone driving in this unusual fashion. Obviously, the two of us have always been exposed to a left hand drive car. It was rare to see something that contradicted the way we had always known; and, honestly, taken for granted. For some reason, we could not get over the fact that cars were going down the road in the opposite direction as we normally see on the highway. I would definitely have trouble driving a car on the other side of the road. The turning would be very awkward and unnatural compared to what I have been doing for so long. I do not know what I would do if the steering wheel was on the other side of my used left hand drive. Sadly, until we travel to one of these foreign places and get the opportunity to drive on the other side of the road we are doing to be stuck with our used lhd cars. That is definitely something to look forward to, however, when we do go overseas.