# Ask the right handed guy.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-right-handed-guy/143903>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 19, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-right-handed-guy/143903 "2002-12-19T21:47:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-right-handed-guy/143903/21 "2002-12-20T20:51:26Z")

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What do you do when forced to use a left-handed smoke shifter?  
[sub](ok, so if you were never a boy scout, it’s probably not funny.)[/sub]

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**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-right-handed-guy/143903/22 "2002-12-20T22:18:23Z")

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**Jehovah** : I was lucky enough to find one close to where I live. I understand it’s a chain and has outlets around the country. I found it to have a wide variety of products usable by right-handed people. It’s called “Wal-Mart.”

**Happyjoelucky** : No, but I went to a special school.

**Frank #2** : They paid off the toll roads in my state right around the time I started driving over 20 years ago. I can’t remember the last time I went through a toll booth. As to the connotations of the word “right”, the only one I deplore is when “right” is used to mean “what calls itself conservatism in this country.”

**betenoir** : Don’t think I haven’t tried. It only harrasses me because I’m so totally awesome.

**Jehovah, again** : As a matter of fact, my father and brother are both left-handed, as is one of my daughters. We’re a bi-dexterous family. I don’t know what causes it. My mother thinks she slept on the wrong side of the bed when she was carrying me.

**Skelji** : I’m an Eagle Scout. I always found the best solution to this problem was to round up the nearest Tenderfoots and require them to hunt snipe until the problem solved itself.

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**Author:** ![Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raymond_luxury_yacht/32/4099_2.png) [@Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raymond_Luxury_Yacht)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-right-handed-guy/143903/23 "2002-12-21T16:06:30Z")

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If you’re drinking something and the phone rings, will you put your drink down before answering the phone or will you use your left hand to pick up the receiver?

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**Author:** ![raisinbread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-right-handed-guy/143903/24 "2002-12-22T03:50:58Z")

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Oh dear. These right hand vs. left hand debates are just as tiresome and painful as the PC vs. Mac threads.

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