# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 3)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 29, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157 "2026-01-29T18:21:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1261 "2026-04-20T19:31:59Z")
I write with my right hand. I have no preference about which show I put on first. I’d guess I do the right first half the time.
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### Author:  [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1262 "2026-04-20T19:37:36Z")
I write with my right hand. I didn’t think I had a pattern WRT putting on shoes, but after putting a little thought into it, I realized I nearly always put my left shoe on first. I don’t know if it matters, but I’m naturally left-handed and was forced to write with my right hand when I was a child. I can eat with either hand.
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### Author:  [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1263 "2026-04-20T19:40:46Z")
The first shoe I put on is the one I happen to pick up first. Which is essentially random.
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### Author:  [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1264 "2026-04-20T19:54:36Z")
It’s not so much being left eared, but rather I hold the phone with my left hand to free up my right for writing.
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### Author:  [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1265 "2026-04-20T20:20:21Z")
> [@zimaane](#):
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> I have no preference about which show I put on first
Oklahoma! is always popular !
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1266 "2026-04-20T20:57:28Z")
It"s noot US, yor justr seeing moar tpyos, Karn.
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### Author:  [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1267 "2026-04-20T20:59:33Z")
Tpyos? wath typso?
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### Author:  [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1268 "2026-04-20T21:39:38Z")
I thimk it’s tpying on phones.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1269 "2026-04-20T21:41:35Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#):
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> Exactly - the music on my CD is _mine_. I can listen to it for how long I want on whatever player. Jeff Bezos does not get to dictate what I own.
Ironically (?), music seems to be the one form of digital content that Amazon sells without DRM.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1270 "2026-04-20T21:43:54Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#):
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> I thimk it’s tpying on phones.
Yeah, my “other” answer is that Dopers are increasingly typing on teeny little phones instead of full-size computer keyboards.
In other poll discussion, I don’t think I have a specific shoe I put on first; it’s just whichever one I happen to grab first.
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### Author:  [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1271 "2026-04-20T21:47:26Z")
Holding your phone with your non-dominate hand is for the same reason you wear a baseball mitt on your non-dominate hand; your other hand has more dexterous tasks at the same time.
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### Author:  [@Thumper668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thumper668)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1272 "2026-04-20T21:55:28Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#):
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> Holding your phone with your non-dominate hand
I use the phone with my non-dominant hand because I’m almost deaf in my right ear.
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### Author:  [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1273 "2026-04-20T22:37:45Z")
I hold phones in my non-dominant hand so that I can write with the other one.
Also I’ve never served, but it’s funny that **Thumper668** ’s poll mentions submariners: I’m a federal contractor who supports a U.S. Navy program that involves sustaining and updating [boomers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_missile_submarine#United_States_and_United_Kingdom), and I’ve also noticed a surprising (and cool) number of former submariners around here. 🙂
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### Author:  [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1274 "2026-04-20T22:55:57Z")
I served in the Peace Corps, but I dont consider myself a veteran.
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### Author:  [@Thumper668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thumper668)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1275 "2026-04-20T22:59:29Z")
I don’t either, but “I never served” didn’t feel right. I’m as proud of my year in the Peace Corps as I am of my time in the Navy and Coast Guard. Thus I felt compelled to include Peace Corps service.
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1276 "2026-04-20T23:03:38Z")
Umm, folks, the question was with which hand do you LISTEN to your phone, not type or doomscroll or whatever else.
Whether it’s in an actual phone conversation – or occasionally listening to a song or podcast without earbuds, nor just letting it play in the open like a transistor radio – I LISTEN to my phone with my right hand holding it up to my right ear.
But when typing or doomscrolling (much more common), I hold it with the non-dominant (left) hand, as most of you all do. But that wasn’t the question.
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### Author:  [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1277 "2026-04-20T23:07:37Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#):
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> Whether it’s in an actual phone conversation – or occasionally listening to a song or podcast without earbuds, nor just letting it play in the open like a transistor radio – I LISTEN to my phone with my right hand holding it up to my right ear.
This seems awkward to me. Holding a phone to your ear requires no dominate hand dexterity. Why would you tie up your dominate hand for such a task instead of leaving it free to do more difficult tasks like taking notes or multitasking while listening?
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1278 "2026-04-20T23:11:43Z")
I just put the damn phone on speaker, warming myself via the hate generated by the SDMB community upon reading this sentence.
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1279 "2026-04-20T23:20:49Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> > [@Dr.Drake](#):
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> > I thimk it’s tpying on phones.
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> Yeah, my “other” answer is that Dopers are increasingly typing on teeny little phones instead of full-size computer keyboards.
That was also my “other”.
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1280 "2026-04-20T23:22:50Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#):
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> > [@JKellyMap](#):
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> > Whether it’s in an actual phone conversation – or occasionally listening to a song or podcast without earbuds, nor just letting it play in the open like a transistor radio – I LISTEN to my phone with my right hand holding it up to my right ear.
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> This seems awkward to me. Holding a phone to your ear requires no dominate hand dexterity. Why would you tie up your dominate hand for such a task instead of leaving it free to do more difficult tasks like taking notes or multitasking while listening?
Because my hearing is a little better in my left ear (I’m left handed) so that works better.
> [@JohnT](#):
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> I just put the damn phone on speaker, warming myself via the hate generated by the SDMB community upon reading this sentence.
In practice, i usually do this, too.
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