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How do your teach someone left from right?

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So I have a driver that always turns the wrong way when I tell him left or right. Since Im the senior scout and am out in front of the platoon this is not a good thing. After a few mistakes I start yelling at him cause he's making me look like an ass, then he gets all flustered and scared of me and does everything wrong. Short of painting a L and R on the lenses of his Night Vision Goggles does anyone have any ideas?[:/]


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I have this same problem. It is a form of Dyslexia. It is a real problem and very hard to overcome. After 37 years.. I still get the whole Left - Right thing mixed up.

Years ago a friend got tired of this and stuffs a small teddy bear between my windshield and the dash on the passengers side of my car. There was an Emissions sticker on the Drivers side. I have numerous friend that still give me direction in "Teddy Bear" and "Sticker". After the second Light, Take a Sticker.. Go three Blocks and then Teddy Bear. It will be on the Sticker Side.:$:|

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So, I'm taking it that this is a grown up person?

Say, "LEARN YOUR GODDAMN LEFT FROM YOUR RIGHT, MORON!"

:D



Same age as me (24). The yelling and cursing makes it worse. He's one of thoes kids thats never had a civilian drivers license and never moved out of his parents house after HS Graduation.:D


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Carry a stick... when you want to turn left tap his left hand... to turn right tap his right hand... sooner or later he'll catch on... if he doesn't then you can always beat on him with the stick... :D
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Carry a stick... when you want to turn left tap his left hand... to turn right tap his right hand... sooner or later he'll catch on... if he doesn't then you can always beat on him with the stick... :D



Thats a good idea but I don't have enough hands to do what I need let alone hold a stick, plus the GPS computer is in the way. Im kickin him in the left ass cheek:D


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Tell him to think of which hand he writes with before making the turn.

The "L" trick works too. Make an "L" with thumb and forefinger of both hands. Only one is "right".

I had trouble as a kid with left and right, and those two things helped.
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Put a red glove on his left hand and a white glove on his right. Instead of saying left and right, say red or white. It's something I picked up in Irish dance, which is usually taught with the dancers wearing red socks on the left feet and white socks on the right feet. Even the little kids don't mess up their left from right that way. It works so well I started using the system on some of my younger karate students (red sweatband on left wrist, white sweatband on right wrist). Color recognition is very fast, just a half second glance at his hands and he'll know which way to turn.

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Good stuff, Kris...

I used the same technique when I was coaching youth football. I was an Offensive Line Coach and teaching blocking techniques to young kids was tough because they had to learn proper footwork. You'd be surprised at the number of kids confusing R and L.

What I did was tie colored ribbons to their shoelaces Red for Right, Lemon for Left.

"Step forward with your Lemon foot...step back with your Red foot." Worked really well!
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So I have a driver that always turns the wrong way when I tell him left or right. Since Im the senior scout and am out in front of the platoon this is not a good thing. After a few mistakes I start yelling at him cause he's making me look like an ass, then he gets all flustered and scared of me and does everything wrong. Short of painting a L and R on the lenses of his Night Vision Goggles does anyone have any ideas?[:/]



and you give people like him guns?

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Tell him the hand he wanks with so furiously every night is his right hand.

The little weedy forearm is his left one :D



This is my rifle, this is my gun... this is for fighting, this is for fun B|

hup hup hup HOOAHHHHH

i say, make him president ;)

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