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• Diane says:

  July 2, 2008 at 2:36 PM

  Sorry for the double post, but … Holy smokes:

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• Tisha_ says:

  July 2, 2008 at 4:31 PM

  I’m a lefty and I wear bracelets and watches on my left wrist. I was always told that I was doin’ it wrong though, because everyone always said you’re supposed to wear them on your non-dom wrist.

  But, I’m a lefty who is proud and doesn’t care if her writing smudges, so maybe I’m weird. I never went for the contortionist way of writing, like so many lefties do. I guess I was just lucky that no one ever tried to “turn me” into a righty. They did that to my dad in school and you can’t read his writing to this day.

  I do most things with my left hand. Except throwing a ball is more comfortable with my right hand, as is using a mouse. But, I assume the mouse thing comes from years of sharing a computer with a righty… and everyone knows those righties can’t do lefty things to save their lives. ;-)

  God made a few perfect people, the rest are right handed!

• Serendipity says:

  July 2, 2008 at 7:38 PM

  I once read an article about “handedness” that gave a number of tests to see how dominant people’s “handedness” is, though I can’t recall whether it discussed whether there is a “right” (or “left” – hee!) answer for each of these tests.

  I’ve tried this on various people over the years in social situations when the subject comes up, and have found that some right-handed people (defined by “what hand do you write with”) actually score closer to some left-handed people than to other right-handed people.

  I don’t remember all the handedness tests but here are some of them:

  1) What hand do you write with?

  2) Stand on one leg. Which leg are you standing on?

  3) Kick a ball. Which foot do you kick with?

  4) Balance a bag of groceries on your hip. Which hip is it?

  5) Put your hands behind your back and grasp one wrist with the other hand. Which hand is doing the grasping?

  6) Fold your arms in front of you. Which hand is tucked down?

  7) Clasp your hands, interlocking your fingers. Which thumb is on top?

  8) Push a bicycle along with one hand while walking beside it. Which side of you is it on?

  Here are my answers. Most of my preferences are EXTREMELY strong, I could not imagine doing the reverse (except the “hands grasping behind the back”). I’m right-handed, BTW.

  right
  left
  right
  left
  left
  right
  right
  right

• Scarlet says:

  July 2, 2008 at 10:45 PM

  I’m a lefty that wears my watch on my left wrist facing out. hmmm…never knew that I’ve been doing it “wrong” all these years.

• Rebecca U says:

  July 3, 2008 at 2:16 AM

  I used to wear it on my dom hand just to mess with people (my sis is lefty so it sort of worked).

  I remember reading a Encyclopedia Brown book where the location of someone’s watch was a clue.

• Margaret in CO says:

  July 3, 2008 at 8:46 AM

  I normally wear the watch on the left, but I’ll switch it to the right as a reminder, like tying a string around my finger. Then when I check the time & see a blank left wrist, I’ll remember whatever it is.
  It’s stupid as hell but it works for me.

• Allie says:

  July 3, 2008 at 11:37 AM

  I’m a righty who wears my watch on my right hand. It amazes me that it bugs so many people once they fond out I’m not left handed. I started doing it as a kid who, when taking essay tests, needed to make sure I didn’t go on too long on any one question and thus run out of time to finish all of them. (Nerd!) Because clearly, glancing at the writing hand was much more efficient than glancing at the hand holding the paper down and covering my (brilliant) answers. Now it’s just a habit. I do get a small bit of pleasure from the fact that it bugs some people (Dad!)

• meltina says:

  July 3, 2008 at 1:11 PM

  I’ve always worn watches (when I wear them, which I am not at this time) on the non-dominant hand. It’s a habit now, but it stems from a very practical reason in my past. When I was in elementary school, I would always try and time how fast I could finish a test, as well as trying to beat your fastest time, and you can do that better if you can stare at your watch while you write on your test. =P

• Jenn M says:

  July 3, 2008 at 5:13 PM

  I wear my watch on the dom hand. My dad was the only parent who wore a watch and as a lefty he wore his on his non-dom right hand. I guess when I picked up the watch habit I assumed a watch was something that went on the right side. I guess I can’t complain too much, it’s comfortable and I also picked up my dad’s habit of reading.

• JH in NJ says:

  July 3, 2008 at 7:00 PM

  @JH in Calgary: I just finished my MLIS this week (woo!) I’m mostly a lefty, but I have been known to write with my right hand on occasion and can do just about everything else with either hand. I
  had noticed that many of my classmates in library school are lefties. I don’t have an exact number, but at the library where I work, there seems to be a decent amount of lefties as well.
  I’m not a watch wearer, but am a bracelet addict. If there’s only one, it goes on the left hand. However, I wear a ring on my right hand and am getting a tattoo on my right wrist. (Getting the tattoo on my left wrist feels off for some reason.)
  Who knew this poll would set off so many comments?

• Princess Leah says:

  July 8, 2008 at 2:14 PM

  I’m curious–if this particular topic hasn’t generated the most comments in Tomato Nation history, which one has?

• SJester says:

  July 12, 2008 at 10:18 PM

  Joining the party late…

  I was taught that it was proper to wear the watch on the non-dominant hand. Tried that, and found that I knocked it into things much more often that way. So I wear it on my dominant hand and don’t run it into walls anymore.

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