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In Australia, they drive on the left hand side of the road with the steering wheel on the right hand side of the car. You can bring your American car with you to use in Australia, but we decided against it. I knew the difficulty I would face trying to drive on the left side of the road, and concluded it was safer for all Australians if I wasn’t driving from the wrong side of the car. Now that I am back in America, I still periodically find myself on the left side of the road especially in parking lots (car parks). I also find myself walking down the left side of the aisle in the grocery store (shop). Suddenly, I will see someone coming directly at me and am jolted into remembering that now I am supposed to be on the right. Upon arrival back in America, we had to purchase a new vehicle. We bought a van and they gave us a nice manual explaining all of its features. I, of course, did not read it. Throughout the last week, I had been extremely irritated that my dash board lights weren’t working. I would turn my headlights on and the dash board would go completely dark. Last night, I was driving home from Parent night at the school trying to estimate my speed because there was no lighting on the odometer. I was thinking, “Does this feel like 45mph?” “If I slow down, will I somehow recognize 35mph?” “I can’t believe I buy a brand new car and the stupid thing doesn’t work right!” (In our family, stupid is a bad word. No one is allowed to say it. I tell my kids all the time that no one is stupid, everyone has the ability to learn. Someone may be ignorant, but they are not stupid. If you say stupid, you get a spoon full of vinegar. So, I never say stupid out loud, but sometimes I think it. My Mom believes it is o.k. to call someone a bad name as long as you say it under your breath. She told me it was o.k. to call Dale a jerk when I am mad at him as long as he doesn’t hear me.) The driving speed estimation requirement had finally gotten on my nerves enough that I called the service department to schedule maintenance. I told the guy what was wrong with the car and he asked me if my dashboard dimmer switch was turned all the way to the left. “I have a dashboard dimmer switch?”, I replied. He explained to me that the knob that sets your trip odometer can be turned to dim your dashboard lights. Ezekiel must have turned it all the way to the left one day when he was pretending to drive while we were waiting in the school pickup line. I then concluded that maybe the van isn’t the only thing with a dimmer switch.