[andykellr]

This reminds me of the fact that my grandmother who recently passed away at 96 refused to make left turns. She stopped driving years ago, but before she did, my father would always help her find a way to get to the pharmacy, the grocery store, church, and family and friends houses making only right turns. Sometimes she went miles out of her way.

[kube-system]

At what point does the risk of the extra miles on the road outweigh the risk mitigated by avoiding left turns?

[wutbrodo]

Left turns are super dangerous. I would imagine that it would be difficult to find a realistic distance tradeoff that would be more dangerous (assuming it doesn't mean something like "spending a lot more time on the highway")

[MivLives]

Your grandmother was onto something. UPS does the same thing:

https://www.businessinsider.com/ups-efficiency-secret-our-tr...

[jmilloy]

Not at all. UPS does it to become more efficient, and that works because UPS has a lot of stops to make. But GP's grandmother did it to be safer even though it was usually less efficient.

[loeg]

They make lefts, but they do routing in advance and heavily prioritize routing using right turns. There is no hard and fast "zero left turns" routing policy or driver policy.

[ghaff]

Not really the same thing. UPS is optimizing the efficiency of a multi-stop route given that making a lot of unprotected left hand turns (especially with a truck) can add a fair bit of time to a route.

[BurningFrog]

Transgender icon J Edgar Hoover did the same.

If it was for safety or because he hated lefties is not clear.

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/27/archives/exagent-says-hoo...

[throwaway0a5e]

>Transgender icon J Edgar Hoover

Citation please. This is the first time I've ever heard him called that. There was some speculation he was gay but nothing conclusive AFAIK. In any case he's one of the last people anyone should pick as a positive representation of their group.

[dredmorbius]

The claim seems unlikely:

https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2423/was-j-edgar-h...

[BurningFrog]

The cross dressing claims are pervasive but not very substantiated. So we can all believe what we want.

I was just trying to be witty when telling a story. Not make any grand statement about anything.

[katbyte]

regardless crossdressing != transgender

[tialaramex]

Indeed. When I'm wearing heels and a floor length flower pattern frock I would say I'm just a bloke wearing a dress, but if you insist that's cross-dressing I shan't disagree.

However my gender remains resolutely unaffected and I have no time for people who expect otherwise. Judge a book by a cover you might, but slipping the dust jacket from Moby Dick onto a copy of The Princess Bride certainly won't make it into a story about whaling.

Also, this word always reminds me of Eddie Izzard: "They're not women's clothes, they're my clothes, I bought them".