A person who does whatever he wants with no regard to the wishes of others. Someone who clearly lives by the motto that it's my way or the highway. Derived from drivers who smoke with their right hand, thus forcing the other passengers in the car to have to put up with the smoke (as opposed to smoking with their left hand and allowing the smoke to go out the window).

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods