Right-handed or Left-handed?

[Mahnarch]

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Now that you've voted without investigating, first, here's the question:

What kind of slap do you want me to give you?
A right handed one?
A left handed one?
Or, do you want both?

(That's to show all the people who'd vote for Hillary just 'because she's a woman'. Investigate, then decide.)

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O.K. The real question:

I'm a lefty. Been so most of my life.
It took me about 2 years after I was born to figure it out.

Many family members tried to force me to be a 'rightie', but my mom always stood by me and put her foot down when folks would grab the pencil/crayon out of my tiny left hand and put it in my equally tiny right hand.
Mom: "If he want's to be wierd. He can be wierd! He's still my boy."*

*Or, something like that.....lol.

I mostly only use my left for writing and drawing - basically anything that involves holding a writing utensil.

But, in this crazy, mixed up, 'Nazi-enforced right handed' society, I've learned that I have to blend in with 'normal' people if I'm to survive. (notice how the 'angry emot' above is shaking his 'right' hand? eh? eeeehhh???)

I 'CAN' write with my oddball hand, but it's harder to read.
Drawing? No.
Chalkboard/verticle incline? No.

I can use either handed scissors, now. (Man, you should have seen my kindergarten teacher go nuts trying to find lefty 'safty' scissors after my mom revealed my dark secret and wouldn't let her try to teach me to be 'normal'.
I ended up with my own 'special' pair [as the teacher called them])

I mouse with my right and left, if need be, but the buttons usually screw something up.

I can smoke with either hand, but prefer the left.
It's also, usually, closer to the window in the car/truck.

I instinctively grab for stuff with my left.
But, I light my lighter with my right hand.

I can drive an american manual with no problem.

I usually break bolts loose with my wrenches with my right.

TV remote: Right hand.
Telephone: Right hand/ear.
Microwave buttons: Left (same with 'Pay at the Pump)
Open the fridge: Depends on door.
Light switches (faceing them): Right.
Fork: Left.
Knife: Right (except when spreading butter or jam.)
Flipping coins: Right.
Milking cows: Left first.
Shoes: Left first, same as pants.
Hammer: Either, doesn't matter. Same with Axe/Hatchet/Machete.
Chainsaws are biased to the right as far as controls.
Gun: Either.
Sword: Either.

Banks always secure their pens down for the right handers.....
Blood pressure testers at Walmart and Meijers squeeze the life out of your left arm...presumably because you 'don't need that one'.

I guess I would be concidered Ambidextrious, leaning toward the left (NOOOOOOO!!! [Independant Conservative, all the way, baby!])

How many other lefties we got here?
And how many 'normalies' we got?
Ambedextrious?

[Phil]

I'm right handed except for at roller hockey I have lefthanded sticks.

Writing throwing and everything else pretty much right.

[dannyboy]

Everything right-handed.

[jesusaurus]

Left handed baby

[dannyboy]

I was wondering when we'd finally see a southpaw vote in this poll.

4 of the last 6 Presidents were lefthanded for those who feel like trivia.

Gerald Ford (38)
Ronald Reagan (40)
George H. Bush (41) That means the president and vice were both lefties.
William J Clinton (42)

[Mahnarch]

Nice trivia, danny!

Now, only to make the 44th president (I can't be pres until next term) a leftie!!

Vote Mahnarch!
Then vote to remove 'Term Limits'.

[Blastgirl]

Right for me.

I I didn't know that Reagan was left handed. My Dad use to say that Bush Sr was all the time because the Bushes are baseball people and my family always was (long before I knew Classic) and when Reagan was President and Bush Sr was vice he would throw out the ball at lots of televised baseball games.

[Kimm]

Right. Except for shuffling cards. Otherwise right.

[Classicblast]

Right throwing and batting.

[edlin]

I'm right-handed.

[grape]

I'm a lefty, I eat, draw, write, cook, cut and do almost everything with the left. Although I do certain things with the right, I usually prefer the left (except for sports and music I use both in those).

I'm actually happy to be a lefty, I'm the first in this family, I've tried to write with the right but I have always ended up writing backwards. weird but true.

According to certain studies, lefties are very creative and intelligant (according to an unproved study so don't flame me.)

But it's found common in people that are twins, or those with mental disorders (autism, dyslexia, down syndrome) I'm not that (Although, hmm, I have been hyperactive and haven't been able to control myself after the last year.)
Or those that were exposed to too much testosterone during birth.

Hold on, I think I'm cross-dominant I hold things and do different tasks with my right as well.

[dannyboy]

I'm surprised there's not a higher amount of people that do different things depending on the hand.

I know a few people who write with one hand but throw with the other. Some and the event varies which hand gets used.

[Demona]

You know, I don't get why it was so important to be right handed, people will do what's comfortable, and I am right handed for most things like pencil use and holding things, but when it comes to eating with my hands, I'll hold the bag, bowl, whatever in my right hand and eat with my left.

[skier1]

Neither.

[Mahnarch]

Ha! Skier has a robot to do everything for him, right? lol.

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Vix:
Which way do you play guitar?
I'm a 'right handed' player, myself. It just feels more natural that way, though the 'hard part' is done with the left.

[Blastgirl]

I have heard it said that lefthanded people do better with their right hand (generally speaking) than righthanded people do with the left hand.

They say it's because there are many controls in cars locks in doors and a number of other things you just have to use your right hand to operate. So as a result lefties are more often forced to yse their weak hand than we are.

[Mahnarch]

Hey! Who has a weak hand?! Both of mine are forged in the fire!! lol.

I think you're 'right'...The natural world does force lefties to use both on a daily basis.
After some time it becomes natural to be ambidextrious.

I couldn't, however, drive a British stick right off the bat.

Also, on the Brit thing. I wonder if the gas pedal is on the left, instead of the right....

KRONIE!!! QUESTION!!!

[skier1]

Ha! Skier has a robot to do everything for him, right? lol.

Actually, I'm a double amputee, but that was a good guess.