# Another "Am I the only one who?" thread **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 17, 2016, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-am-i-the-only-one-who-thread/766136 "2016-09-17T04:23:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-am-i-the-only-one-who-thread/766136/41 "2016-10-02T15:33:04Z")
Am I the only one who thinks it’s stupid that hospital scrub pants routinely have a pocket over the _left_ butt? We’re not all genetically defective left-handers, you know. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-am-i-the-only-one-who-thread/766136/42 "2016-10-02T16:18:49Z")
I’m right handed. Strongly so. In conventional pants with two rear pockets my wallet rides in my left rear pocket. That way the left hand retrieves the wallet. Then the right hand does the dexterous (heh :)) part of digging something out of the wallet being held by the left hand. Seems pretty obviously sensible to me. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-am-i-the-only-one-who-thread/766136/43 "2016-10-02T16:37:05Z")
^Yep! ---
**Author:** ![pendgwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@pendgwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pendgwen)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-am-i-the-only-one-who-thread/766136/44 "2016-10-02T17:44:00Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Am I the only one who thinks it’s stupid that hospital scrub pants routinely have a pocket over the _left_ butt? > > We’re not all genetically defective left-handers, you know. I want your hospital purchasing people to come to my hospital because this is the exact opposite of my experience. I just had to go check the 4 types of scrubs that I have in my house: the standard issue from my current hospital, the expensive ones my department bought for our faculty, the ones I was issued during residency and the ones I still have from medical school. They all have the pocket over the right butt. The scrubs I dislike are the ones that are not reversible. My phone lives in that inside breast pocket. If the scrubs are not reversible there’s no inside pocket and I have to put it in the outside pocket where it falls out every time I bend over. ---
**Author:** ![Jake\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Jake\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake_Jones)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-am-i-the-only-one-who-thread/766136/45 "2016-10-03T00:06:54Z")
> [@igor\_frankensteen](#): > > No offense, but you have some things wrong. The small jeans pocket chances to be something that I saw a program about recently, because someone was investigating it’s history. Many people do think it was for a pocket watch, but even in early examples, the pocket was not large enough for a watch, and it’s location was such that anyone on a horse would not be able to retrieve it. Levi Strauss & Co. [disagrees with you](http://www.levistrauss.com/unzipped-blog/2014/04/those-oft-forgotten-pant-parts/). They specifically call it a watch pocket. [QUOTE=Levi Strauss & Co.] **The Watch Pocket** The first blue jeans had four pockets—only one in back and, in the front, two plus the small, watch pocket. Originally included as protection for pocket watches, thus the name, this extra pouch has served many functions, evident in its many titles: frontier pocket, condom pocket, coin pocket, match pocket and ticket pocket, to name a few. Not only is the pocket extremely useful for holding tiny trinkets, it is also is loved by denimheads for the faded and worn nature it takes on over time. [/QUOTE] In light of the fact that the Levi Strauss & Co. invented blue jeans, I think they’re the definitive authority on the matter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-am-i-the-only-one-who-thread/766136.md?page=2)