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Left Hand/Right Hand Quirks

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fregienewbee

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The other night, while bolting a clevis to a drawbar, I got to wondering how many people have little quirks when it comes to nuts and bolts or picking things up. I'm right handed, but almost always use my left hand to screw/unscrew nuts. If I drop seeds, screws, etc. I pick them up with my left and put them in my right until I have enough to put back in the container. I also deal cards with my left hand. Any one else have quirks?

Larry in Michigan
 
I'm left-handed, but I don't everything with my left hand. I write and eat with the left hand, but I do things like throwing a ball and working with tools and shooting a gun right handed. As for swinging a baseball bat, I can hit just as poorly from either side.
Good Luck and God Bless.
 
I'm left handed.
I only use my left hand though for eating, throwing a ball, using a knife, welding, holding the fishing pole.

Every thing else I use my right hand for, like a ball bat, wrenches.

I guess I use my right hand more mainly because most items were set up for right handers. Using your thumb & fingers to tighten a right handed nut is easier with your right hand than your left hand, also the motion seems to be more natural and you have more strength I think. Just like a left handed nut is easier for me to put on with my left hand.

People also have a dominate eye, may be left or the right one.

I have a brother, wife and some cousins who are also left handed. My one cousin put up a hand crank pencil sharpener one time and had the crank on the left side. The rest of the office workers made him install it so the crank was on the right side.
 
My sisters taught me to bat RIGHT handed as a little fella ,Seem to hit Furtherest with my left , But twice More apt to strike out , so I stayed Rite handed batting ..I Must write Left handed , However I eat ,hammer , wrench , preferably with my LEFT ,although I can hammer Quite well righthanded ... Consider this,, Which is reason I lifted this Post topic , Right hand clutch and left hand clutch ,,Its Ok on a JD ,Because You are unmistakeably astride a JD, ...BUT, on CASE SC right hand Clutch and DC left hand Clutch ( all built same year and very little difference )... So much alike ,WHAT WAS CASE CO THINKIN?.!. That on a WORN OUT beat day , Or a Very Old fella could make a mistake and run over Grandma ,When she is being a sweetheart to help hook up equipment ... The gear patterns are even totaly different except for 1st gear ...
 
Being right-handed, I did pretty much everything with my right hand until last Sept. when I broke my right wrist. I learned to do a lot of things left-handed and still do a lot left handed.
 
On the university campus where I teach, all the trash containers have lids with push open flaps.
The squirrels have determined that ther are good things in there. In every case, the squirrels have chewed holes on the right bottom corner of the flap. Right handed squirrels. JimN
 
Nancy, I can relate to that. Since the shoulder surgery on the right side last Feb. I now have the mouse on the left side of the keyboard all the time (to the dismay of my wife). And now I can actually throw fairly accurately lefty. I always pick up small things lefty ever since the tip of my right pointer finger was sewn back on 20 years ago.Jim
 
I have learned to wave with my left hand.

Way back when I was in college, I would always wave at every pretty young woman that would drive by an honk.

My right arm got so sore from waving so much I had to wear it in a sling.

Left arm doesn't seem to hurt as much.
 
Left-handed, but bat (poorly) right-handed and play golf (even more poorly) right-handed.

In my younger days, when I almost gave a rat's rump about sports, tried to improve my batting and golfing by switching to a lefthanded stance, which seems logical as I do EVERYTHING else left handed.

Wooooo, whadda circus. I only THOUGHT I sucked trying to do those things right-handed..."8^(
 
I'm a lefty but play all sports like a righty, use a mouse with right hand.

My left has better co-ordination but my right is probably 15% stronger.
 
I am right-handed but shoot left-handed. when I was knee-high to a grasshopper I could not shut my left eye for aiming but could close my right. Left eye is master eye so OK with a shotgun (no cross-over stock needed) but rifle was a problem so used a Browning T-Bolt for several years.

A right-handed friend at school batted at cricket left-handed just because his dad was left-handed and taught him that way.

Regards, RAB
 
I am right handed, but played hockey left handed.

Baseball, could hit either right or left. More power right, better average left. Odd thing is I could hit right handed pitchers better batting right, and left handed pitchers hitting left. Exactly the opposite of how it is supposed to be.
 
How does a righty hold a shovel? Both my son and I are rightys, but I pitch to the left and he pitches to the right. We could clean a hog house in a hurry when we were both tossing it out the same door. Jim
 
Just the opposite for me. I'm left handed and did pretty much everything lefty except scissors.

In high school I broke my left wrist. Was forced to "teach" my right hand to do everything for a couple months. (I even managed to learn to write reasonably legibly...) Once the cast came I stayed with the right hand except for writing, batting and a few things requiring fine motor control.

Fast forward 20 years. Was out jogging when a drunk in a pickup lost control and ran me over. Suffered broken right shoulder, a bunch of busted ribs and a mangled right hand. I instantly returned to being full-time lefty again.

Curiously now I do better with my right hand swinging a hammer and welding. I cannot explain why - my right hand just seems to work better for that kind of stuff.
 
Way back when I was in junior high school there was a substitute teacher that was a regular at the school filling in. He was at that time ole maybe early to mid 60's in age. He would almost always tell stories of the different wars that was in his era, tell about trips he took etc. Both his hand were disfigured and of course the kids in the class would ask him what happened. He said that he was left handed and everytime he would use his left hand his teacher would beat his hands with a stick to make him use his right hand. and thats all I'm going to say about that.
 
I always alternate hands on the shove. This keeps the blisters and muscle aches distributed evenly.
 
I'm right handed but shoot left because my left eye is overly dominant.
In university, there was a lecturer who could write with either hand, even on the blackboard. And very nice handwriting it was! And one could not tell what he had written with his left hand or with his right hand. Every student was stunned by it.
 
I had a biochemistry lecturer who could write notes on the blackboard with his right hand while at the same time drawing a chemical structure with his left hand (I still don't know how his brain managed to do it). It made it interesting taking notes in class.
 
I thought I was the only strange one with this. I am right handed, shoot hockey right, but bat and swing a golf club left.
 
I am the other way around. I am very much left handed, use my left for most every thing but shooting. I shoot right handed cause my right eye is a good bit better.

Dave
 
One instance in particular which sticks in my mind.
When about 12 yrs old. And milking cows in the parlor, it was handier to wash the cow's udders with the left on one side. And use the right hand on the other side of the parlor. Rather than have to reach around backhanded to use the right hand on the one side of the parlor.
My folklore believing, superstitious GrandFather proceeded to give me a blast for "using the wrong hand". I had had about enough of his "sundogs, moondogs, amount of black on caterpillars etc. And his insistence on saving money by doing projects "halfa$$ed" two or three times. Instead of doing the job properly the 1st time.
I pointed out how awkward it was to reach around the cow/pipework. Take longer, do a poorer job washing. And put ones self at a higher risk for a broken arm should the cow kick. Then asked how anybody could be so STUPID and lacking basic common sense.
He started to wind up to give me a swat and another verbal blast. As I looked down at him. He realized earlier that day I had carried more hay bales and stacked them higher than he could as well.
Some muted grumbling from him and he always treated me differently after than.
 
I do just about everything I can think of right handed except swing a sledge hammer. It works out pretty good though because if Dad and I have to tag team a pin or something we're not swinging the hammer into each other's way.
 
I am right handed but my left eye is dominant. When I was in college a doctor said that I was cross dominant and that I may have to read everything twice for the thought to sink in. i completed my masters degree and did some work on a doctorate program. I believe the dr. was right because I have to read a lot of things twice.
 
I honestly never thought of it before. Now I'm going to be so self concious in not knowing which hand to use that nothing will get done out of fear of embarrassment.

Mark
 
I am right handed. I eat and write with my right. I also use the mouse right handed. I usually pick my nose with my left hand for every thing else I use my right hand.
 
I am right handed but I can sign my name with both hands at the same time only the left hand name will be spelled backwards. ( Yeah I know BOB is spelled the same both ways, but I was also talking about my last name and first name Robert)
 
This is a very interesting thread,
someone ask about shovel/ pitchfork
I can throw left, but feel more comfortable right shoveling corn? I do better right with aim and having a shovel full stay together as it leaves the shovel also my right has more strength to pick up and guide direction when throwing up, say like up into a crib window.

I shoot right also,

a test to some kids in school now ,"pre school they ask the child to make a circle at arms length with both hands, make it small and look into it bringing their hands towards their face and still looking through the hole they made with their hands,

As they do this the hands will automatically go to the dominating eye this is how they determine if the child is left or right handed and prefer the child wright with that side that has domineering eye.

I don't know if they still practice this or not

These posts have all but blown that theory as some of you can do just the opposite and must be more common than thought.

Some of you sound semi-bi dexterous.
That substitute teacher was bi dexterous , and I thought that was a very rare circumstance.
 
I always wondered if that was anomaly or what, left stick for hockey, but right handed, though with some practice I could go opposite, same with batting, used to do that to throw em off sometimes, but now my shoulder is in such disrepair, batting and throwing a ball is a thing of the past, though I hope that could change with some medical help, not liking these kinds of problems one bit LOL !
 
Well Loadin the manure spreader from the right side. I chose the front half to load. you wouldnt have wanted me to be helpin you if I was to the rear. good way to make enemy's ~~LOL
 
Most people can write with both hands. I had students go to the white board with a marker in each hand. Right handers naturally wrote left hand backwards, right hand forwards. From this point they quickly learned to write forward or backwards with either hand. I used this activity to prove that we have talents that we are not aware of.
 
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