An odd question.

[hoveringsombrero]

As some of you may or may not know, I'm mildly ocd, and both-handed.
These things aren't related except for the purpose of this question.

Sometimes it makes my brain happy to stick to one hand for a time,
to be only left-handed, or right-handed for this day/week/month,
and also around people I don't know it cuts down on hassle.
When people notice any discrepancy in which hand I use, they want to talk to me about it,
especially other lefties, and I don't feel right letting them believe I'm one or the other,
so stupid explanations and more conversation than I care to have with strangers.

Anyhow, the question being that there are some things I don't know which hand is proper.
Like if I'm pouring creamer into coffee with one hand and stirring with the other,
or adding more ingredients to a pot on the stove that I'm currently stirring.
WHICH HAND IS SUPPOSE TO DO WHICH?

I just do whatever's closer, also if there's lots of stirring,
when one hand gets tired I just use the other.

Does everybody do this or is the "dominant hand" suppose to be doing the pouring or the stirring specifically?

Comments

[mfree.livejournal.com]

I cannot answer your question, as I'm not normal. I was tentatively ambidextrous (read: almost as good with left as right) but trained right from the start and the final nail got put in the sinister coffin when I broke my left wrist and caused nerve damage.

I pour left and stir right. Stirring motions don't get translated right through the left hand.

However, I mouse leftie, tend to park drinks on the left side, and believe it or not tend to bowl better left handed, though it tweaks things and starts hurting after a few frames.

[eris.livejournal.com]

"I cannot answer your question,"
AND YET YOU STILL ANSWERED!

No, this was interesting, though too similar to me to be the answer I was looking for.

I've been switching trying to see if pouring or stirring is easier with any particular hand, but obviously I'm a bad subject. I would have thought that pouring would be tricker with one's non-dominant hand if one had a significantly less dominant hand.

Maybe it's like the people who switch when cutting food, who cut with dominant hand, then hand fork to dominant hand and eat. I never got that one, seemed terribly awkward. ARE YOU A SWITCHER?

[mfree.livejournal.com]

Switcher? Nay. I cut with my right, but I tend to keep the fork left, and may continue on with the entire meal left-ed.

[alouqua0.livejournal.com]

I switch when cutting/eating foods, but I already told you this

[eris.livejournal.com]

SWITCHER!

[cwoolard.livejournal.com]

Lefty.

With small things like coffee, I pour with my right, stir with my left. I'm just too clumsy with the "off" hand to stir.

If I'm pouring something fairly heavy, like a pitcher of liquid, or a big box of salt, I'll use the left hand, try to stir with the right, and then give up and switch hands.

Hope that helps.

[eris.livejournal.com]

Interesting, yeah I would have thought pouring required more dexterity than stirring, I was incorrect and have learned something new.

by the way, your southpark icon guy is holding his coffee in the wrong hand.

[cwoolard.livejournal.com]

...by the way, your southpark icon guy is holding his coffee in the wrong hand.

Yeah, but that's where the icon generator puts it. Yet another slight to us lefties, grumble...

I suppose I could just flip the icon, but then he'd be looking in the wrong direction...