It's obvious by now that quite a few of us have trouble processing left and right, and that people using the terms ought to allow everyone time to get oriented.

I am particularly flummoxed when a caller says something like "pass your partner's left shoulder." Heavens, I have yet to locate my own left shoulder.

I like the idea of saying "to me" "to you" "your door" or "my door" in the car.

this is a true story: a bossy woman I know was giving me directions to a copy center, very vague directions. Finally I said, "Tell me, is it on the east side of the street?" And she replied huffily, "Well it is, if you're going south<\i>!"

But that's a whole nother ball game.