My assumption is that cold water and the dryer on the left. The cold water is almost always on the left, I don’t know why I’d assume the dryer is.
I wasn’t thinking of a romantic dinner, just how the shakers are arranged on my stove. But to answer your question, the pepper would be on my left.
1: Women’s on left, men’s on right.
2: Hot on left, cold on right (pretty sure this one is an actual standard)
3: The door you go through is on the right (this works going either way). In other words, from the inside of the building, exit is on the right.
4: Salt on left, pepper on right, I guess? But these get moved around so much it hardly matters.
5: I don’t drink coffee, so I have no idea. If there’s hot water for tea, it’s usually further down the line (whichever way that is) from the coffee.
6: Washer on left, dryer on right.
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Men’s room. I wouldn’t make a guess in real life, too risky. But in your imaginary world, I’d guess right side.
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Cold water - definitely on the right side.
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Exit door - no preference at all. The one that’s closest to me as I come up to the doors, I guess. You can always go out an entrance anyway.
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Pepper - left side, but I would certainly test before shaking.
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Decaf coffee - no preference at all. I don’t drink coffee so I have no experience in this area.
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Dryer - right side. I assume this would be at a distance, but when they are both front loaders, the dryer always seems to be on the right.
The idiot who wrote this knew the cold was always on the right. I have no idea how it came out that way.
Wtihdrawal. I’m blind and stupid and can’t count to two.
I’m completely wrong in what I thought. (My own goddam kitchen sink betrayed me!)
Take me with you to the races, and bet heavily against any horse I bet upon.
Hey, at least give me credit for confessing: I was wrong!
I came up blank except for cold water and decade coffee, both generally “right.”
For the coffee, I think this is because the default is “caffeinated,” and when ordering objects, we tend to place the most “important” one on the left, because in the English language we read from left to right.
You weren’t wrong. In the US, cold on the right is supposed to be standard, but often is not, as we discussed here a decade ago.
What sorts of 'speriments are going on in the bathroom?! I’m picturing IS drying erlenmeyer flasks with the blow dryer.
Right
Right
Left
Left
Left
Left
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Mens room (as in you know there are two bathrooms in front of you but they are not labeled) - no idea, never considered it before. I’ll go with right.
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Cold water (2 faucet handles and they are not labeled etc…) - definitely right.
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Exit door (Got the idea?) - I’ll go left, being a Brit we tend to walk/drive on the left.
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Pepper - right, because in the phrase “salt and pepper”, pepper is on the right.
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Decaf coffee pot (like in a meeting and there are 2 coffee pots but they aren’t labeled) - no idea, I’ll go left on the basis most people are right-handed and most people drink normal coffee over decaf, so this set up makes it most convenient for the majority.
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Dryer - as in washer and dryer? I’ll go right, because working from left to right you would use the washer first.
I doubt you’ll get much consensus on this except number 2, where there is a well-established convention.
I first thought this was going to be about politics. On some level, maybe it is.
Left and right presume order, where left is before right (however, other languages and cultures have it oppositely).
My answers, without reading anyone else’s as requested by the OP:
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Mens room: left.
I usualy think of the genders in terms of ‘men & women’ and not ‘women and men.’ -
Cold water: right.
Here it’s about convention and not about order. IME, cold has almost exclusively been on the right - not scientific data but in my lifetime of 53yrs, cold has been to the right over 98% of the time. -
Exit door: left.
Somewhat ambiguous because am I inside or am I outside the building or room? This is undefined. As posed, at this moment my assumption was to be on the outside (not sure why that is), and so the entry door should be on my right, therefore the exit door is on the left.
But if I were on the inside then the exit door should be to my right.
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Pepper: right.
It’s usually ‘salt & pepper’ not the other way around. -
Decaf coffee: right.
‘Leaded’ coffee is the usual & customary, so that precedes ‘unleaded.’ -
Dryer: right.
You wash first, then dry.
Now I’m going to read the thread…
I have, but it’s very rare. I figured it was a plumbing mistake, like chiroptera.
Really? I’m not questioning your ability to do so, I’m expressing my being impressed!
C’mon, play alomg! 
The OP is asking if you had to pick one or the other, and ‘equally likely’ wasn’t one of our options.
Don’t be such a stickler.
In my house, I installed the washer on the left because the space was small, the narrow ingress to the room was from the right, and the front-loading washer’s door opened to the right.
Yet for the OP, I said dryer on the right.
See above, for what I said to stickler.
That’s why I choose to live in northern California!
(But, see below…)
RTFOP!
That reminds me of a joke:
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can count, and those that can’t.
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Mens room (as in you know there are two bathrooms in front of you but they are not labeled)
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Cold water (2 faucet handles and they are not labeled etc…)
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Exit door (Got the idea?)
RIGHT -
Pepper
RIGHT -
Decaf coffee pot (like in a meeting and there are 2 coffee pots but they aren’t labeled)
RIGHT -
Dryer
LEFT
I almost never see this setup. Usually in a strange place, the restrooms are down a little hallway - and the men’s is almost always the first one you get to, regardless of which side of the hallway it’s on.
Hot water is on the left, cold on the right.
The one I go through is on the right, whether I’m entering or exiting.
The salt and pepper are in the middle of the table, so left/right/front/back depends on what side of the table I’m on.
Last time I was in a shared-coffee situation with any frequency was when I was in grad school >20 years ago. There was one pot - caf. As Pal Erdos said, a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. And decaf just doesn’t work.
The dryer in my home is on the left, due to where the hookups are. Been in the same home for 15+ years.
Back in the days when I took my laundry to laundromats, washers and dryers both were in massive rows, rather than a washer and a dryer side by side. The only other place I might encounter that would be in someone else’s house, and when would I be doing laundry in someone else’s house?
I was a plumber and my guys did a bathroom and got them backwards. Don’t think the woman of the house wasn’t jumping up and down with rage. Another time my guy hooked the toilet up to the hot water line!
Men’s room on the right.
Cold at my right hand
Exit door on my right
Pepper? as in with salt? if they ain’t different colors, then what?
Depends on which side of the table i am on. It’ll be the opposite for the gal across from me.
Dryer is on top washer on the bottom at my house
Mens bathroom on the left
Cold water on the right
Exit on the right
Pepper on the left
Decaf coffee on the right
Dryer on the right
I remember there was an Encyclopedia Brown mystery focusing specifically on a house where the faucets had the hot and cold reversed for some reason or another (because of the owner’s having a disability, I think?) and the big GOTCHA was someone saying they had gotten cold water by turning the righthand faucet.
I also remember Encyclopedia Brown clues being very vague or indistinct and thereby kind of infuriating - like they’d mention that the bully stole someone’s watch. The bully claimed that he wore it all day at the beach as proof it was his, and the gotcha was that the bully didn’t have a tan line on his wrist so he must have stolen it. Except that at no point in the story did they mention whether the bully had any tan lines or not, so you couldn’t have figured out the gotcha on your own. Ugh.
Wasn’t that a nice tangent?
Hmm… in the kinds of situations implied by the OP:
- I’d expect that if restrooms were unlabeled that they wouldn’t be gender-specific. But if I knew they were, and just didn’t have signs for some reason (signage maintenance?), I’d probably go with Left
- Cold is on the Right almost everywhere in the US, but I seem to have seen enough reversed in older houses/apartments, especially in CA, where I might hesitate under certain circumstances. Almost certainly still go with Cold on right if pressed as it’s substantially more likely overall in my experience, to the point of appearing as a Standard.
- Doors, if likewise unlabeled, I’d assume weren’t direction-specific. Would probably err on exiting out the Right so as to avoid collisions with people entering–who I would assume are also going to use the door on their right (in the US, again). If I knew it did make a difference (automatic, one-way door, again undergoing signage maintenance?)–and I was in a store/business–I’d go with “whichever one is closest to the cash register”. But for the purposes of the OP, I guess that would be Right.
- Pepper, Right. Absent other clues, I’d expect it visually match up with the typical term for them, “Salt and Pepper”)
- Decaf, Right. Absent other clues, I’d expect it visually to match up with “Default Option” then “Alternative Option” left-to-right.
- Dryer, Right. Step One, Step Two, left-to-right.
- Mens room (as in you know there are two bathrooms in front of you but they are not labeled)
Right
- Cold water (2 faucet handles and they are not labeled etc…)
Right
- Exit door (Got the idea?)
Left. . . (Edit) I mean the exit side would be on the left. I would go in the right. I was picturing “going in” someplace not exiting.
- Pepper
Left
- Decaf coffee pot (like in a meeting and there are 2 coffee pots but they aren’t labeled)
Right
- Dryer
Right