Hand Dominance vs Wrist Wearing

[The Cockney Rebel]

That's not what I heard. Knife is held in the right hand, because cutting is something most people do with their dominant hand. Fork is used to hold the food in place while cutting, which is a supportive task, to be done with the non-dominant hand. In the US, many people cut with fork in left and knife in right, then switch the fork to right to bring the food to their mouth. It is said that an American spy in Germany during WWII was found out because he was using his knife and fork the "American" way.

Very interesting piece of history, there.

I think that us lefties do a fair number of things the right handed way, because we are raised in a right handed world.

 

[richard13]

Very interesting piece of history, there.

I think that us lefties do a fair number of things the right handed way, because we are raised in a right handed world.

I remember my mom telling me that my dad used to take the pencil out of my left hand and put in my right but that I would switch it back when he was gone. It just "felt right" to use left. On the other hand, (really, these are not meant to be puns) if I hold a ball in my left hand and throw it, it feels really wrong.

 

[Thomas Davie]

Very interesting piece of history, there.

I think that us lefties do a fair number of things the right handed way, because we are raised in a right handed world.

Door knobs are on the wrong side of the door. Water fountain buttons, same thing. Computer mice are generally shaped wrong. The do-up button for bluejeans, also wrong. Electric can openers. If I’m using my iPad Pro and the pencil is docked at the top, I’d rather have the power jack on the left hand side.

The world is full of things that have me scratching my head and going. ‘What the **** am I supposed to do now. Oh yeah, other hand’.

Now I’m going to try and find a good left handed mouse on Amazon.

Here’s something odd. I’m adopted, as is my sister. she’s the only right handed person in my immediate family. My mom & dad were both left handed as were both of my mom’s biological parents. Sitting at the Christmas dinner table was a complete mess. I usually ended up sitting on my left hand and just eating with my right, save for slicing turkey amd ham.

Tom

 

[cubodado]

Right handed wear on left. I’d find it almost impossible to scribble otherwise! AW6.

 

[Und Eser]

LH for writing and wearing AW, RH for eating, playing guitar and using scissors.

 

[Mikeske]

I do everything left handed except write and that was because the good nuns at the school I went to in the early 1960's would wallop the left hand if I wrote that way. Yes I can write left handed but I would always end up smearing the ink with my left hand as I was a hand dragger. So to this day I mainly write right handed.

The only time I was primarily writing left handed was for 6 months in 1983 when I badly broke my right thumb and had to have a couple operations over a 8 month period to repair the damage. I still have issues with using the thumb today because of the joint is basically frozen as I only have about a third of the range that the left thumb has. There was no good fit for the way I am left handed but writing right handed.

Edit I wear the watch on the left wrist.

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

I am right handed and wear all my watches on my left, which is the traditional combination. My wife is right handed and wears hers on her right which is her preference. When I am writing or using a mouse, it is common to be glancing at my watch. No right or wrong, but there are tradional methods of wear and that is something I have always followed.

 

[transmaster]

During the years when I was doing heavy construction there were a lot of us who wore wrist watches on the inside of our forearms. It was a more protected position given our work environment. I don't wear mine like that today but it is good position. you roll your forearm counter clockwise to look at it, which is actually a more natural movement for your forearm. Off course you can't show off a watch in this position but in certain places that can be a good thing.