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Wilson

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Maybe I am bored or getting old and crabby. However I get miffed when anyone thinks a vehicle be it tractor airplane or anything inbetween does not havr it's own right and left. In the fordward direction of it's travel and the operator is seated , his left is the vehicles left!!!!!!!!!! If a person is standing in front facing the back of said vehicle his left is the vehicles right. Ever think left hand drive (steering) becomes right hand standing in front??????????? On simiular rant once gave fellow directions . Said to go to stop light turn right. He returned mad , couldn't find the location. I though a while then asked did you first see a traffic signal. He replied yes. Was it green when you were their??? Yes. well it wasn't a stop light was it? It is a traffic signal. This time go Till you have to STOP at a red colored light which is blinking.This is where you must always stop. Thats a stop light!!!!!!!!!! I know most folks find it different that to me theres no gray. words mean what their diffination is!!!
 
I had a cow years ago missing it's left eye,my neighbor asked which left eye,I said it only has one left eye,and he said were you facing it or standing behind it,what the heck.
 
I once sent an out of town trucker to another farm to pick up a load. The roads right here are pretty much laid out in a nice square grid. So he made it down, over, up, and turned onto the correct road. I had instructed him that he would cross several cross roads, and that his destination farm was just before the road ended. In other words(I also told him) when you HAVE to turn left or right, you're there. (Destination was a couple hundred feet back from the T). He stopped, and wasted a lot of time, TWICE, before he finally made it. Actually turned onto one of the cross roads and travelled a little ways to a promising looking place. However the fact that the Cornell research farm looked impressive didn't get him the trailer load of oats he was looking for!
Kind of reminds me of some on here who ask for advice, only to argue! So why ask, if your mind is already set?
 
Dad always made everything relative to himself. Left of anything was his left, whatever way he was facing at the time.

I join your rant on that, was very frustrating for me.

I'd be kinda ticked on the traffic light too. Can see the other fella's point on that - kinda set people up to fail if you are that hard headed on being right to the tiny detail.... If you give instructions, do so to be _helpful_, not to be _right_.

--->Paul
 
Hi Paul... You just gave the best answer and that was: do so to be _helpful_, not to be _right_.

The best answer possible by far...
ag
 
In the automotive business, its "Driver's side" and "Passenger's side".

A buddy of mine who works in a dealership once went home and told his wife his arm hurt.

She asked which one.

Without thinking, he said, "Passenger side".
 
Well, anybody who thinks that the right/left configuration changes because you walked from the back of the tractor, to the front and looked at it--is nutty! The machine never changes its orientation. no matter what way you look at it! You must think about that.
To wit: Say your car needs a new left front fender. (Actually, the fender you want to get is on the same side as the steering wheel.) But, you are standing in front of the car, looking at it, so you get out your cell phone, and You order a right front fender. After all, your right hand is on the same side as the bent fender, isn't it? When you go to get it at the parts place, you tell the man it isn't the correct fender! And then the argument starts! WOO-HOO!! And then you are informed that you ordered the wrong side, it should have been a left side fender, and you will have to either accept it, or pay for shipping it back to the ware-house, plus paying shipping again to have a LEFT fender shipped in! How do i know this? When i started in the auto repair trades, i did exactly that, but i soon learned that the left/right orientation doesn't change when you walk to the other side of the machine!
 
I guess the automotive parts business has changed, since you say that it is now Driver's side and Passenger side!
HMMM! Or is it because the schools have educated a bunch of dumbos who don't know their left hand from their right?
 
When I had my FedEx Home Delivery route, I had a laptop running my GPS program on ALL the time. One day, a semi is coming at me on a side rode 'to nowhere'. He flags me down, asking for directions. I knew where he wanted to go, but it was hard to describe. Had him get in my truck so I could show him on my computer. (Figured he could make his own route that way, without my interpretation!) Also warned him about the road he was on, and not being able to go West like he needed too. He was SO happy with my help-I just hope he got there-I was heading East, and he West, so never knew for sure! Greg
 
You are absolutely right, no I mean left on the other hand do I mean write, or don't write then we will see whats left......right?
 
Still trying to get the 'Gee and Haw' thing straight. But I do wear my watch on my left wrist when I wear one. No idea where my wedding band is, she probably sold it.
 
10 yrs ago , all my hay got loaded by Accident because of confusion of left and Rights ,, Honest mistake , fella was supposed to go to crossroads turn Right , go a mile and pick up alfalfa on left ,, they did the exact opposite And my alfalfa was also waiting to be picked up,, Came Home , and helped them finish the last load thinking they were sent by the guy who agreed to find a someone to haul the hay ,, .. they give me a puzzled look when I asked for Hay Pay .... after a little discussion , I realized i needed to drive them over to the correct field , Even thou I paid them for helping me , those guys were bummed ,, because they had another 200 bales to pickup...
 
"Just remember when you walk out a building north is always on your right. You can never go wrong if you remember that simple rule".
At least that's what a lady once told me.
 
Or, circuit breakers found in a vacated building I was working in, labeled with the persons name! Not very useful when the person is no longer there! Greg
 
Ok you said it so which is which and what is the way to tell a person that does not know how to tell which one is which??? Ya I know but then I was in the navy for 6 years so I sure better know. So guess you can say I'm calling you out LOL
 
Ah but which is which do you know and do you also know how to explain it to some one that does nut know. Ya I know but I better I was in the navy for 6 years
 
sent a hand to the vet with a trailer load of hiefers to vaccinate told him to take branding irons and brand em in the chute i brand on right hip he walked up to there heads and branded the right hip when he got back i told him the cows left.
 
Paul how about driving in New Ulm. People who live there think just because Broadway has the right-of-way all streets are the same. I don't trust anyone at intersections in that town. mnjoe
 

i used to work in a upholstered furniture factory and they refered to the side of the piece as right or left facing . meaning your right or left as you stood in front of it . for a while i didn't know what they were saying . i always thought of things as from the sitting or operating position .
 
Ok but was that true on ALL navy ships??? If you say yes sorry not true but then I might need to fill in a gap or 2 if you disagree with me LOL
 
How come there's a right of way and no left of way? I was left wondering why right gets priority over left because I can't be right wondering. It's too darn confusing. Dave
 
Come on Old
It's where they mustered the DC party on the USS Howard W. Gilmore. Don't remember where it was on the Hector. Every ship was different.
They called it on the 1MC every night at 20:00 along with Sweepers.

Sweepers, sweepers man your brooms, Give the ship a good sweepdown both fore and aft. Sweep down all lower decks, ladders and passageways.
Assemble all trash and garbage on the fantail for dumping.
Now sweepers!
The movie started at 20:15
 
I had a shrimp boat for 28 years. I had a right hand engine and a right hand wheel (propeller). They turned in opposite directions....lol.
 
If you're a transit man on a survey crew, and you want the rodman to move right a hair, you'd better tell him left a hair.

Paul
 
Why not "near" side and "off" side.
I get onto a horse on the near side and fall off the off side.

People believe traffic signals to be stop lights,initially you never mentioned the blinking red light, hence the confusion. I would have done the same thing.If you had said to proceed throught the traffic signals till you reach a blinking red light he would not have returned,
Maybe you are.
 
My first wife would point and say that north was whatever direction she faced. When she would be told left she knew that was the hand she had her ring on. When she left me I knew that was right cause nothing was left. LOL
 
Well you knew I was just giving you a hard time on that one. I know the navy sure has seemed to have changed a lot since I was in since my step son say he has not had off base liberty yet and he is in A school right now. I know when I was in I had off base liberty the same day O got to my A school base. Guess they have tighten down on them a lot since 1980 when I got out
 
Ah but just because you say you know and you say you know how to explain it why don't you. Calling your bluff on this LOL. Ya I got good at poker when I was in the navy and learned to bluff with the best of them and win doing so
 
Does this mean if a protruding dock is present that one ship would have to back in if docking at same dock ? to keep port side to dock ?
 
(quoted from post at 03:28:13 02/22/10) "Just remember when you walk out a building north is always on your right. You can never go wrong if you remember that simple rule".
At least that's what a lady once told me.
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well that makes sense as long as the building is facing up hill, because north is up, right?
 
Back when the roads were first tarred, they did the long north-south streets (parallel to the river) first. Was before my time, but for some reason - $$$, planned that way, whatever; it took an extra year or 5 to get around to paving the shorter streets that ran from the river up to the hill.

Soooo - everyone in town got used to driving faster on the paved streets, and slower on the unpaed & bumpy streets.

Just natural for those on gravel to stop for those going by on tar.

And 60 or so years later, we all _still_ drive that way. Even those of us who weren't around.

Yea this town can be scary to those not from around here, we do _not_ yield to the right!

It's not because of Broadway or the influence of Schell's beer.... ;)

--->Paul
 
Paul & mnjoe
A bit OT, but know your dilema, lived in N U approx 30 years. Must be the old German tradition.
Asked father in law for directions. He said go south on 15 to first cross road past the big yellow barn, then take a right. Problem is the barn had been repainted white for 20 years or more. He also thought that the N-S streets were through streets & E-W had to stop.
Or actual conversion- tire man asking at feed store how to find a certain farm for service call.Go east on Fort Road to big cottonwood tree, (it blew down last year), then north to white horse looking out barn door. Found remains of dead tree, horse in barn door, & combine with flat tire in field.
Do you live near the Holy Land? Ping me, e-mail is open.
Willie
 
Dog,
When were you in the Navy.I served from 71'to 75'.A BT aboard the USS Richmond K.Turner (DLG-20)
 
Army had a way with left and right in basic training. Not I, but just look for the one with a large rock in his right hand and all right pockets full of rocks if you were not sure which was right that day.
 
If I tell you to do something with your left hand, and you do it, you're doing it with the "right" hand. Then your right hand isn't doing anything, so it's "left".

Oh, well.........
 
All hands man your battle stations. The traffic pattern is up and forward to port, down and aft to starboard. Material condition zebra will be set thru out the ship in five minutes.
 
I'm just out of the holy land.

On the Fort Road tho. When they went to 911 addresses, they actual offically call it Fort Road now, so the nickname won! :)

And my cottonwood tree is still standing. Old bugger. Neighbor hated it 25 years ago, now I ended up buying his 40 acres. Tree stays. :)

--->Paul
 
Paul
Thought from some of your posts that you were someplace near there, but your post about city windmills confirmed my suspicions.
Nicollet Co Rd 5 got its nickname because it ran from St peter to Fort Ridgely.
For those who wonder about The Holy Land, it is anyplace from where you can see the church steeple in St George.
Willie
 
The 'rich farmers' farm around there & supported that small church quite well. Thus, they live in the Holy Land. :) The tease is that they always get the rain or dry or escape the hail that others get.... All in fun.

I'm from the lower class, Klossner area. Lost it's church before I was born, but still has one of it's 5 bars.....

--->Paul
 
Red, right, and returning. On the water anyway. When I go someplace in a vehicle, if in a northerly direction, I go up. If in a southerly direction I go down. Some people go down all the time. Even go down to Canada from US. Beats me. Da ve
 
Dave, I live in Southern Illinois, and was working on construction with a young man from the Lexington KY, area. Every Friday, he'd tell me that he was going DOWN to KY for the weekend. One day at lunch I was looking at a road map of KY, and noticed that he lived north in latitude from where we were in Illinois. Broke his heart when we would correct him by telling him he was going up NORTH to Kentucky for the weekend.

Paul
 
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