To the Left, To the Left

TO THE LEFT, TO THE LEFT
Over Thanksgiving break, while members of my family were starting to eat the food laid out before them, someone asked where the roast beef was. At least four people responded, “To the left, to the left.”

At a store once again over Thanksgiving break, I overheard other people engaging in a similar type of conversation. A young woman asked her friend where the shoes were, and her friend responded, “To the right, to the right.”

This is the first lyric heard in Beyonce Knowles’s song “Irreplaceable,” and it is just as addictive to people as “SexyBack.”