Because you probably don’t have the same sort of OCD/autism/attention-to-detail as I do, I believe (based on which wrist one wears a watch), that left-handiness is on the rise. By doing a little googling I found that approximately 10% if the world population is left-handed, and surprisingly to me, more men than women. I realize that not all left-hand-dominant people who wear a watch wear it on their right wrist, and that some right-hand-dominant people wear a watch on their right wrist. It’s just I feel as if I see more than 10% of the people who are wearing a watch are wearing it on the right wrist. Maybe I should ask them for an autograph to see with which hand they sign.
YMMV
Wordle: four, my starter was FLORA
Wordle in 5.
A good day on the field. Things are moving right along. Directors dinner last night. Guest of Honor seems OK. Debbie was supposed to come to camp, but got a late start, so drove straight to the hotel. I managed to time it perfectly and was right behind her- so much so my phone synced to her car. She has a hand doc appointment in Sandy Springs this morning.
Off to work…
-FP
Guest of Honor seems OK – what exactly does that mean?
I shan’t show anyone a photo of my dinner last night because frankly, it looked disgusting. However, the Carolina hash and rice I got while in the southmost Carolina was delicious! IYKYK
From The Google:
“A child’s hand dominance is determined by a combination of brain lateralization, genetics, and prenatal or environmental factors.”
Hmmm, I wonder about parental pressure.
Again, from The Google:
“Parental pressure can force a child to use their right hand, but it does not change their biological brain wiring.
Historically and culturally, many parents have pressured left-handed children to write, eat, or use tools with their right hands. Here is how that pressure impacts a child:
The Impact of Forced Right-Handedness
• Neurodevelopmental Stress: Forcing a naturally left-handed child to use their right hand creates friction in the brain. The child’s brain must work much harder to process motor tasks because it is fighting its natural neural pathways.
• Temporary or Mixed Dominance: Pressure often results in forced right-handedness or a form of learned ambidexterity. The child may write with their right hand due to training but will still naturally kick a ball, throw, or reach for objects with their left hand.
• Side Effects: Studies and historical data show that intense pressure to switch hands can lead to developmental frustrations, including temporary learning difficulties, clumsy motor skills, spatial confusion, and high anxiety around academic tasks.
Ultimately, while environmental conditioning and parental pressure can alter outward behavior, a child’s true underlying hand dominance remains rooted in their genetics and brain structure. Modern pediatric and educational guidelines strongly recommend letting a child naturally develop whichever hand preference feels comfortable to them.”
Disclaimer: AFAIK, I am “naturally” right-handed.
73 de JG/HamWithCam
I’m very left handed – no one ever tried to change it.
only 2 things I do right handed –
1. play golf – I didn’t get my own clubs, so they just taught me using my older brother’s clubs.
2. scissors – they bought me left handed ones, I couldn’t make them work.
and I do wear my watch on my right wrist.
I’m right-handed and I wear my watch on my right wrist. What is the point of wearing it on the other wrist? I’ve always thought that was dumb. Perhaps many people feel the same way I do.
My last boss is left-handed and after watching him for two years I can see that it affects you in many ways, every single day. He has to use ballpoint pens because if he uses the inky kind he will smear it all over the paper. Where he sits at the dinner table. It’s not terrible but it’s something right-handed people never have to think about.
I don’t know why I wear it on my right wrist – I think it was more comfortable to not have it on my wrist when I write. But – it seemed to make sense.
I’m the only true left hander in my family – though Tom (the youngest) is more ambidextrous – I think. Now I need to ask him.
When you wear it on the wrist not used for writing it doesn’t get in the way nor scrap the desk? That’s been my theory.
Many years ago I heard the theory that you wear it on your non-dominant hand in order to encourage you to use that arm more. LOL.
Out of 4 kids, 1 sister and I are lefties, as is Debbie. Unlike Barb, I’m pretty ambidextrous and can even use chopsticks with my right hand.
My Debbie is a lefty. It’s handy when we’re sitting across the table when we share a drink served in a mug, the handle is always on the correct side.
Wordle in 5 today, but it’s also my 1,500th Wordle. And I’m 6 NYT crosswords away from 3,000. I got addicted during COVID and apart from a couple of extended periods during my divorce never looked back. Once I catch up on those 8 or 9 months, I’ll have completed every crossword back to 2018.
Mu kids wanted to see Weezer last night. I’d seen that band before at Truist, so I was mildly interested but they put on an exceptional show. They started out with a contrived video of the band getting together in a backyard to do a show, then walked through a fence on stage into backyard that included a house, telephone poles, lighting that felt like streetlights, a power outage before the acoustic somgs, the whole works. It was the most clever stagecraft and props I’ve ever seen at a show. Silversun Pickups and the Shins opened.
There was a year I saw Weezer three times.
I saw Silversun Pickups at Drunken Unicorn, and no show they put on could possibly to that for me.
Agreed on Silversun Pickups. I remembered only one of their songs, and they blissfully only played 30 minutes. That’s interesting that you saw Weezer 3 times in one year. I could see doing that back in the 90s. A lot of their subsequent material that they played was fine, but the stage production last night and the stuff they did with lighting and that house was really incredible.
See, if I were at that show I’d watch the Silversun Pickups and then leave.
Wow, so many lefties! Who knew?!
See? This is why I don’t understand the statistic.