The wrong side of the road

Question for all dog owners: do you train your dog to walk left or right of you? Somehow mine ended up on my left hand side. I never thought much about the idea, it just kind of naturally happened that way. We both seem to be fine with that arrangement, however, to my surprise not everyone agrees. And that’s putting it nicely. As I learned this week, some strongly disagree. I apologize for my ignorance thus far.

The whole left and right thing seems rather important. As a kid I got in trouble at school for being left handed. My teacher said it was a handicap and treated me as mentally disabled as a result of her own limited mindset. Once you get used to a certain way of thinking, that becomes the default way of doing things unless you’re motivated to make a conscious effort to change it. Which I never planned on doing anyway, despite her abusive remarks.

Driving on the “wrong” side of the road as they do in the United Kingdom and some of their subsidiaries like Jamaica, Australia and a h…