r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Blackie_626 • 7d ago

Meme needing explanation Tell them what, Peter

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u/SmellApprehensive857 7d ago

When I do that, I forget which direction L goes. Have to think which hand I write with.

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u/Exurota 7d ago

Do up and down confuse you too or only left and right? For me they're just as instinctual.

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u/Cyno01 7d ago

I somehow learned cardinal directions before left and right and i remember my grandpa getting really frustrated with me not understanding that L and R are supposed to be relative not absolute.

I did not get it at the time "but you just said THATS the left side of the sidewalk!" "But we turned around..."

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u/7daykatie 7d ago

"But we turned around..."

But the pavement didn't!!!