"really, you would never make a right turn in a left hand pattern? ever?"
In that situation I would turn to the right.
What I'm learning as a new PPL is that I encounter new things all the time. Things I hadn't done during training, or things that surprise me. I departed the circuit at the end of downwind, which I'd not done before, I joined dead side at circuit height because the cloud base was low. I am always speaking to my previous instructors about things that are new because I realise that although newly qualified i am certainly still a student. There are so many things I haven't done because I've barely done anything except the syllabus yet. I've taken passengers now, that was new, and I'm hoping to fly into a controlled airport next week, something I only did once during my training and then only dual.
I'm loving the debate on here and didn't think my question would spark so many contrasting answers, which makes me glad i did.