Visitors to the uk be warned

[SF Jeff]

For my first trip to the UK, my then-girlfriend and I rented cars in Ireland Scotland and England. Automatics were twice as expensive to rent as manuals so we rented sticks. To prepare, I started practising my left hand shift. She and I carpooled to work back then and she would drive and I would sit in the passenger seat and shift with my left hand (obviously she worked the clutch with her left foot). Surprisingly it was very intuitive and easy, almost no adjustment time at all. We did not practise driving on the left side of the road.