I write with my right hand and don’t always put the same shoe on first.
I start off with the phone held to my right ear; but if it’s a long phone call, I’ll switch back and forth between ears.
I don’t know whether facts are in evidence for more typos. And, in addition to probably eyesight, I blame probable increased use of autoincorrect and auto fill.
I see your point, but for me the thing I need the dexterity for is holding the phone! Either I don’t multi-task as much as you when talking/listening on a phone, or I’m klutzier than you and I can’t hold a phone well with my left hand. Or both. I rarely talk on the phone anyway.
For texting and scrolling, I just realized (as I type this) that I usually hold my phone with my right hand AND scroll and text with the (thumb of) that same hand. Not always, but usually.
Yes, this is almost certainly the actual reason.
I agree - I use my right hand when looking at my phone and my left when talking on it. I detest speaker phone mode and won’t use it willingly.
I live near George’s Song Shop, the oldest record store in the US, and I missed Record Store Day. Dang it!
And the dratted link refuses to work.
which hand do I hold the phone with is both/either. I don’t live with my SO so frequently talk to her while out walking; especially in the winter I change hands so as to warm the other one up in a pocket.
& more typos come from more posts on smaller phone keyboards
Not too many voted in the veteran poll and most never served. Between active duty Army and Army National Guard I served 27 years. Hard to believe I’ve been retired 10 years (this month) already.
I live in wine country so tourism is year-round and rather low-key. I am 20 minutes from two beach towns (Pismo Beach and Morro Bay) that draw tourists all year round. The fact that they are notoriously overcast in the summers tempers the influx of sun worshipers. I surf early mornings and am often queried by tourists about when the sun comes out. My answer, “October”, amuses no one.
My little town is visited often by tourists- only to get gas, food, etc. Nothing to see here, really.
We have a Major Sports Venue in our town, so we get bursts of visitors and then nothing.
On the phone, I almost never use speaker, except when my daughter calls I’ll sometimes use it so my wife can hear, and sometimes use it because I’m helping my daughter with something or the other online. I also use it while waiting on hold for service, but not during the service call.
I live in San Antonio, TX, which is visited by tourists and we do host things like the NCAA Final Four (and the NBA Finals (go Spurs!)), but I’m rarely… if ever… bothered by issues caused by tourists.
I use the speaker on my phone often, but never never in public. I don’t like talking on the phone in public even without the speaker.
I live very close to the ocean so we do get a large influx of tourists but only in the summer.
There’s an annual rodeo that probably brings in some people every year, so I picked “one specific event…” Other than that Folsom Prison probably attracts the occasional hardcore Johnny Cash fan (there used to be a very small museum at the prison, but I think that was a victim of COVID), but there isn’t really any huge tourist draw in my town.
Yes that’s the kind of thing I meant with that choice.
Navy veteran here.
Long time ago.
I enjoy getting the random discounts scattered about.
speaker phone, only if alone & only if I need my hands for something, like to do something on the PC. Once I’m done doing whatever, it comes off speakerphone.
People who do that in public should be whapped upside the head, by law!
RE speaker phone: I said “only if I’m alone and others can’t hear me”, but i also use it at home if i want to share with my husband (talking to our kids, for instance) or at home if I’m far enough away from other people that i won’t bother them too much. Or sometimes at home at a party (“everyone say ‘happy new year’ to Uncle Marty!” )
I don’t use it in public, though. Or near my husband when he’s working. Or…
We have skiing in the winter and a water park in the summer. We don’t get as many tourists as the local politicians would like to claim we do, but they do come year-round.
The ONLY occasion for me to use a speakerphone is if I am on a call and need to access my computer simultaneously (like talking to customer service that needs documents or something from me). I will also sometimes have Siri hold for me and put it on speaker until the call picks up. Apart from that, never. I hate speakerphones.
I love speakerphones. I would always use it if i didn’t mind bugging other people.