Jerry
Before many of todays larger lumps of land were even marked on the maps of the civilized world those of us inhabiting smaller lumps of land tended to ride our horses on the left. As predominantly right handed it gave us an opportunity to either greet or fend off with a weapon those we encountered. As various bits of land have been occupied it has always been a puzzle to us that they have not all adopted the proper side of the road to travel on. When tradition is so deeply ingrained as it is here then we have never seen the need to conform to what is obviously just a passing phase!! The next thing will be someone proposing we put one barrel on top of the other or inventing a powder which doesnt produce volumes of smoke - someone might even try to hide the hammers from view none of which would ever catch on I am sure!!!
John
Last edited by Oldfarmer; 04/16/11 08:59 AM.
