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Why do left handed people always wear their watches on the wrong hand? I've been left handed for a LONG time and have worn my watch on my right wrist for over 30 years and I just realized that I have no idea why. Now I'm wondering what other things I do backwards without knowing why. Pounding a nail in with my left hand makes sense, since I'm left handed and all but not the watch thing. Does anyone else have any other examples or answers?
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Not everyone is 100% one way or the other. I write right-handed, but golf, batting baseball, and guitar all feel more natural left-handed. If I wore a watch it'd be on my left wrist. I don't know if that's right or wrong (aka left).
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It seems natural to me that we wear our watches on the opposite wrist from the one we favor. That way the watch doesn't interfere with writing, etc.. Just my $.02USD
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I'm right handed. When I wore a watch, wearing it on my right hand would be uncomfortable when writing (when I didn't much writing). When I wore digital watches, if I wore them on my right hand I'd have to interact with it using my left hand, which would be awkward. Of course, now I just wear my watch in my pocket (cell phone has replaced watch for me).
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Well what's really going to blow your mind is that I'm right handed and I wear my watch on my right wrist!
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As a lefty a watch on that hand bothers me when writing.
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i sometime ask myself if im subliminally left handed cause i seem to favour that side from time to time, cant think of a good example off the top of my head apart from i kinda row left handed and when standing tend to put most of my weight on my left leg.
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Originally Posted by Cold Warrior
As a lefty a watch on that hand bothers me when writing.
What's writing??? I guess I've been using a computer and a PDA at work and at home for so long that I can't remember the last time I've actually written more than just my signature!
I tried wearing my watch on my left hand today to see how it went and it seems OK so far except for something I never suspected. It really hurts! You can't imagine how much your usual wrist gets toughened up and used to a watch. It's only been 5 or 6 hours and I feel like my left arm is handcuffed to a cinderblock or something. I may give up.
Oh and I noticed I always pet my dogs with my right hand. Do right handed people use their left hand?
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Originally Posted by mrtew
Oh and I noticed I always pet my dogs with my right hand. Do right handed people use their left hand?
I have hands that I use for various tasks that don't really have anything to do with which hand is dominant. Like I don't touch animals with the same hand I eat with. Maybe it's something similar.
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Originally Posted by Chuckit
I have hands that I use for various tasks that don't really have anything to do with which hand is dominant. Like I don't touch animals with the same hand I eat with. Maybe it's something similar.
strange that you have gone to that length of thinking about it, however kinda clever
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Originally Posted by iM@k
Well what's really going to blow your mind is that I'm right handed and I wear my watch on my right wrist!
Likewise!! I haven't worn a watch in a couple of years, but when I did, I always wore it on my right hand. When I get a new watch, this won't change. Wearing it on my left hand just feels not quite right.
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I am right handed and wear a watch on my left wrist.
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Left-handed. Watch on left wrist. Pet the dog [I mean that in the literal sense, but you can choose to interpret it any way you wish] with left hand. Fork/spoon in left hand. Badminton racket … either hand, for some strange reason. Throwing: right hand.
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As a lefty a watch on that hand bothers me when masturbating.
Fixed for people who don't write.
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I'm left handed and I call my right hand "that one."
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I think it is no coincidence that ambidextrous is literally "two right hands".
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In English the word left comes from 'lyft' meaning worthless. Italians use 'sinistra' or sinister.
I don't know if any of this is actually true. Oi'si'n''?
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I am left-eyed. I look through gun scopes, cameras, and aim a bow all through my left eye's vision.
I bat left-handed, just because it throws everyone off.
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I do everything left handed, but write with my right, and I wear a watch on my left arm. As a child in Germany, it was strongly frowned upon to be left handed, so I learned to write with the right hand. I also lean left.
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I never gave it much thought. I've always wore my watch on my left arm. I'm right handed.
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Can write with either hand, watch on my left wrist.
Strangely though, my writing is far better with my left, but I'm faster with my right.
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when i was in my teens, i wore my watch on my right wrist. i was (am) right-handed.
the reason was simple. when i got into a fight and it happened a lot, i used my weak (left) hand for blocking. i didn't want my watch to get any damage. It was a plastic Casio G-shock or something. Yeah it's ridiculous, i know.
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Originally Posted by Railroader
I am left-eyed. I look through gun scopes, cameras, and aim a bow all through my left eye's vision.
I bat left-handed, just because it throws everyone off.
Same here, left-eyed too.
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I'm left footed, but walk on the right for some reason.
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Handedness: Left primarily (see specifics below)
• Write: Left (for signature) ; Left or Right (for illegible hand-writing)
• Watch: Left (when I wear one, with dial on inside of wrist)
• Vision: Right (for squinting/sighting an object or using a telescope)
• Mouse: Right
• Ball Throw: Left (baseball, basketball, football)
• Stick Sports: Right (baseball, lacrosse, hockey)
• Foot Sports: Left (Soccer*, American football)
*Although I had much greater strength/distance kicking with my right foot, I had much greater precision with my left foot.
• Eating Utensil: Left (knife, fork, and spoon)
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copied ScottiB and added in category for eating utensil.
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Write: Left
Watch: Right
Vision: Right
Mouse: Either
Ball Throw: Right
Racket Sports: Right
Stick Sports: Right
Foot Sports: Right
Eating Utensil: Left
Musical Instrument: Right
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Eat and write left. Watch on left. Pretty much everything else right. Dominate left foot but kick almost as good with right.
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Everybody is born right-handed, only the great can overcome it.
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Totally flipping out: Either
Whaling on guitar: Right
Flying kicks: Right
Katana swinging: Right
Ninja star throwing: Left
Nunchucks: Right
Wall scaling: Left
Face-punching: Left
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I'm so right handed I suspect it would somehow improve if my left hand were amputated.
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Originally Posted by rickey939
Everybody is born right-handed, only the great can overcome it.
...then accidentally kill themselves with a circular saw because power tools were designed for right hands.
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Very lefthanded for almost everything, however....
Mouse -- Left.
Trackball -- Right.
Oldstyle Arcade game joystick (because I gotta be specific with you weirdos ) -- Right
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Originally Posted by Dakar V
I'm so right handed I suspect it would somehow improve if my left hand were amputated.
I assume your typing skills would suffer.
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I am a lefty but I use my right hand to mouse, play guitar, scissors. Left footed, right eyed, etc.
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Originally Posted by calverson
I assume your typing skills would suffer.
Only capitalization and some punctuation, really.
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You type the letter e with your right hand?
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He probably is.
Regardless, it was interesting enough to hit reply and do so (using both your hands I bet)
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It wasn't interesting, I just felt a duty to notify you of how abysmal the conversation was.
This conversation and critique of the previous conversation is infinitely more gripping than the previous conversation.
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*wakes up*
Man, I was reading this thread and then BAMMM! I was suddenly wiping drool off my chin and had keyboard imprints in my left check.
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That must be the chloroform I mailed you.
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Originally Posted by Railroader
*wakes up*
Man, I was reading this thread and then BAMMM! I was suddenly wiping drool off my chin and had keyboard imprints in my left check.
Originally Posted by sek929
That must be the chloroform I mailed you.
Glad to see the first Secret Santa gift has arrived.
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Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
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You should probably smell the rag again just to be sure that's what it was.
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Originally Posted by Dakar V
Glad to see the first Secret Santa gift has arrived.
What, a man can't ship a chloroform-soaked rag to an anonymous forum poster without it being part of a Secret Cult of Santa?
I did it because I care, that's why.
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BTW, I was hired by your wife to knock you out so she could have a sexy party with the Chip n Dale dancers.
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But his wife left, so you had to.
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Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
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Originally Posted by calverson
But his wife left, so you had to.
huh?
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Originally Posted by sek929
BTW, I was hired by your wife to knock you out so she could have a sexy party with the Chip n Dale dancers.
Originally Posted by calverson
But his wife left, so you had to.
I think it makes sense. Quite clever, actually.
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