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Thread ID: 43513 2004-03-17 06:02:00 OT: Help with Maths Survey ~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054) Press F1
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223131 2004-03-17 20:15:00 2 people in our house hold both right- handed, but I do play golf left handed, so maybe i am ambidextrous although my wife just thinks I'm weird, no surprise there Pacifier (2821)
223132 2004-03-17 20:22:00 1 lefty and 1 righty here.
B.
Barnabas (4562)
223133 2004-03-17 23:44:00 I am mixed-handed (I suspect, a weak left-hander unconsciously and incompletely converted in childhood. Sometimes consciously: I can remember being retrained to shake hands with my right hand; so I now bat and bowl right-handed. I may have been LH at both if they'd left the handshaking alone). But I write and use a spoon (or a fork by itself) left-handed. I butter bread L but cut it R. I paint the bulk of a wall R but edges and corners L. My left hand overall is better at "delicate" work. But I thread a needle with the right hand!

If I were to plump for one side or the other, I'd say I was (originally) left-handed.

Partner right-handed; the one lefthanded-ish thing she does is to stir tea and coffee right-handed but anti-clockwise. Younger child is the same. Elder child is, as far as I can tell, totally right-handed (she did mention one minor thing she did left-handed but I forget what it was).

Parents were both right-handed, except that my father dealt cards with his left hand.

I think you'll find a lot of people who can name at least one thing they do the "other" way. Stepping outside the immediate family and probably beyond your survey, but worth recording that my two nephews (sister's sons) are both as pure left-handers as I've ever seen. One does one or two right-handed things, but the other none that he can think of. Both my sister and her husband are right-handed.

I'd love to do a survey one time on the anti-clockwise coffee-stirring thing. A former girlfiend also used to do it. I am an anti-clockwise left-handed stirrer.

Argus
argus (366)
223134 2004-03-17 23:50:00 In our family of six people only one is left-handed. mark c (247)
223135 2004-03-18 03:03:00 > But hang on Susan_B!!! These days you have to be PC don't you?

> Any chance of two of you changing to be left handed?


Well, I can do a rather mean south-paw when provoked - does that count? :D

HWMO does sometimes display some rather strange tendencies as reported by others in this thread, eg using cutlery in the opposite hands to everyone else, amongst other things. :-)
Susan B (19)
223136 2004-03-18 03:36:00 lets see...

my family

In a family of five

3 Right (Dad, Mum and Sister) and 2 Left (Brother and Me)
Megaman (344)
223137 2004-03-18 04:28:00 Personal reference: recorded up to here... thus far

19% left handed
~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054)
223138 2004-03-18 04:32:00 I have no idea what hand i stir coffee with,nor in which direction. metla (154)
223139 2004-03-18 04:43:00 Ok, in this survey, lefthanded is defined as writing with your left hand

Sorry, should have told you

Thanks,
~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054)
223140 2004-03-18 06:05:00 Hi
Family of three... 2 right handed and 1 left handed
Donna
donna (1667)
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