It wasn't until I was 70 that ....

I struggle remembering my left from my right, I have to look at my wedding ring.?I can drive perfectly completely at speed on blue lights, it really doesn’t make any difference.

PS how on earth did dental dams get mixed up with broad beans? The mind googles!

OMG just looked up dental dams?! Now won't be able to sleep and to think I thought I was a woman of the world! Somehow this search got mixed up with my last surf about searing scallops. Getting wierder!

We used to talk about 'my side'and 'your side', but since DD badly damaged her arm in an accident, her preferred turn of phrase, and ours now is 'Arm' and 'non-arm', no she didn't suffer an amputation, but the damaged arm and its treatments dominated our lives for several years, so Arm (and never forget the capital letter even in speech,) is the arm that was damaged(the right arm) and non-arm is the other, left arm.I It works very well in most circumstances,

GabriellaG54
It was a BSM instructor who advised the elastic band.
He said it was a common problem.
I wore one again when i took my advanced test.

My sentiments too, Tooyoungtobeagrandma,aren’t some of her comments are just mean,why bother writing if as you say she has nothing nice or even helpful to say, Bet we both get a good telling off!

GabriellaG54 you really are an unpleasant person. I have read your comments on other posts and you are obviously an absolute perfect specimen of a human being that you never make a mistake from the way you comment and chastise. Were you never taught as a child that if you can't say something nice then don't say anything at all. (I am sure you will correct the saying)

My late husband didn't know right from left. He'd direct me saying "turn left here!" As I made to turn left he'd shout "No, not that left, the other left"?. Apparently it's a sign of high intelligence.... He was an architect and always managed to sort out the rights and lefts when designing anything.

Wow - DD- Who knew?
Never peel broad beans by the way.

Bradford Las, they say we learn something every day and toddy I must certainly have. Dental Dams - just googled them. Never heard of them.

Hello to you all. Have been on Gnet for a while but asked for a username change for security reasons.

debgaga

Thank you annifrance for your acknowledgement I appreciate it after discovering the Anglo Scottish border is diagonal ! LOL ? ( I still don’t totally get the dental dam duh! Whats it got to do with teeth? )

Wearing my extended life rubber gloves I like to gently poach my furry broad beans carefully wrapped in a dental dam immersed in my left handed saucepan. Very Heston

Not knowing left from right is grouped with problems like dyslexia and dyspraxia. It runs in my family, my sister, DD and myself all struggle with left and right. My son and I are also dyspraxic.

Strangely, despite that I have absolutely no problems reading maps, upside down as well as right way up. If we meet traffic problems when journeying and DH is driving , I will just pick up the road atlas and soon find another route and map read us across it. I rarely make a mistake. In fact I love reading maps, I read them like books and study them in detail.

Who-er ended up having to google .....so that’s what a dental dam is blimey never knew that was a necessity of life
I m really heartened about the left and right thingy as I always thought it was a shortcoming of mine I didn’t realise so many others had the same problem I m not dyslexic at all but I do have a ridiculously bad sense of direction everywhere seems to look quite different each time
Just in case you are too concerned about me gabriella I don’t drive and seem fine on my cycle or my feet so don’t worry

Apparently ladies brains and men’s brains are actually wired differently and it’s quite a common thing that ladies will struggle with left and right and it is why map reading is a chore! Something we ( yes me too) have to work at.
Dental Dams I was educated today by google ?

I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I used to sing (and love!) a nonsense ditty which I thought went 'Maisie dotes and dozey dotes and little amzey tivey. A tideley ivy too. Wouldn't you?' Actual..... Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy too. Wouldn't you? 70 indeed!!!

And here she is again GABRIELLA 54 with the fists up!

One of my friends at university couldn't easily tell left from right but got a better grade degree than me. She is certainly not stupid and I think it is quite a common problem.

I had to google 'dental dam'.

You learn something new every day - or so they say!

Got to 70 and started to feel old.

totally agree with you hellsbells148, have never had a problem with my feet when driving. if we all had no little quirks or small faults then we might as well be robots but then even they are not perfect. its all these little bits that make each and everyone of us what we are

As my mind was boggling, I looked up 'dental dam'. Well, I never!

You don't need to be rude, Gabriella, lots of people find it difficult to distinguish left from right, however odd you and I might find it.

I taught dancing for years, so I can assure you that at least half the population have trouble with it, and any driving instructor will back me up on this.

Congrats FC1, that's Mensa level and above.

BradfordLass72 - I’ve had two big shocks this week but yours is the biggest ! I’ve always been regarded as pretty smart, IQ 148 plus etc. But the first shock was I’ve got to 60 being half Scottish half English and never realising the border isn’t straight as in West to East! So I was feeling a bit thick when I looked up dental dam! I was thinking ? type of root canal ? OMG ?! (Vagina isn’t that surprising but anus?) I’m simply not going to ask. I’ll just sign up for old and past it.