"Yeah, maybe," Sam muttered, swinging the BMW into a precise Y-turn.
A U-turn is the simplest turn maneuver (as it involves no reversal of the drive train), and the fastest that does not depend on tires skidding sidewise as in a bootlegger turn. However, it is often infeasible, by requiring a roadway width equal to or greater than the width of the vehicle plus the diameter of its turning circle; that requirement tends to amount to around a handful of traffic lanes.
For most consumer-style passenger vehicles, a 3-point turn (or K-turn or Y-turn) is feasible on most roads.
An officially endorsed three-point-turn procedure consists of
--pulling to one side of the road,
--turning the front wheels toward the far side as fully as feasible, and
proceeding to within a few feet from the opposite curb;
--turning the front wheels in the opposite direction as fully as feasible,
reversing the drive train to its backward-travel mode, and
--backing toward the curb on the original side of the road until the rear wheels are close to that curb;
--turning the front wheels back toward their center (straight-travel) adjustment,
reversing the drive train back to its forward-travel mode, and
--proceeding forward on the appropriate side of the road.
"But if the pull into an IHOP, promise me you'll turn around and leave the poor man alone."
The International House of Pancakes, is a United States-based restaurant chain that specializes in breakfast foods. It is owned by DineEquity, with 99% of the restaurants run by independent franchisees.
While IHOP's focus is on breakfast foods such as pancakes, French toast and omelettes, it also offers a menu of lunch and dinner items.
The chain has more than 1,500 restaurants in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
"Curiouser and curiouser."
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world (Wonderland) populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre, and its narrative course and structure have been enormously influential, especially in the fantasy genre.
Here's the quote from Alic in context:
"“Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). “Now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!” (for when she looked down at her feet they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far off). “Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I’m sure I shan’t be able! I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you: you must manage the best way you can—but I must be kind to them,” thought Alice, “or perhaps they won’t walk the way I want to go! Let me see. I’ll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas.”
And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it. “They must go by the carrier,” she thought; and how funny it’ll seem, sending presents to one’s own feet! And how odd the directions will look!"
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