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Left turns are for weenies

Sunday, July 15th, 2007
By: Andrew

As I was pulling out of the parking lot today, I noticed that it is ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE to turn left onto a busy street. I knew it before, but it solidified in my mind today. You can likely turn right 5 or 6 times before you can turn left once. Esp when you are turning left in a line with 500 other people the first of which is a timid 84-year old in an ’84 Buick. I decided to break out of the left turn lane into the right turn lane to do a 3-right left turn, and as I did I made up a jingle. Like many of the hundreds of crazy things I say, this one had music associated. I didn’t even realize I had said anything, but my wife, sitting next to me, cracked up. “Did you just sing the ‘left turns are for weenies’ theme song?”, she asked. “I don’t know. I guess I did.” So henceforth, when I pass the long lines of people insistent on turning left at a busy intersection when it is not possible, I will sing the “left turns are for weenies” theme song. The moral of the story is: be a right turner, not a weenie.

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