# What do you use your spare hand for? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 17, 2007, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-spare-hand-for/430292 "2007-12-17T03:40:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-spare-hand-for/430292/21 "2007-12-17T15:24:10Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] …97, 98, 99…change hands 😛 [/QUOTE] You got all the way to 99!?!? ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-spare-hand-for/430292/22 "2007-12-17T15:37:05Z")
[QUOTE=Flander] You got all the way to 99!?!? [/QUOTE] It’s the motherfuck way. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-spare-hand-for/430292/23 "2007-12-17T16:28:46Z")
WASD. Also Q, E, 123, Tab and ~. And of course, space (jump jump jumpjumpjump…) ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-spare-hand-for/430292/24 "2007-12-17T17:05:21Z")
The jab, left hook, and left uppercut. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-spare-hand-for/430292/25 "2007-12-17T18:17:03Z")
Oh that’s my dog petting hand. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingCowOfDoom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyingcowofdoom/32/21776_2.png) [@FlyingCowOfDoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingCowOfDoom)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-spare-hand-for/430292/26 "2007-12-17T19:10:04Z")
You could get one of [these.](http://www.frogpad.com/information/bluefroginfo.asp) –FCOD ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-spare-hand-for/430292/27 "2007-12-18T05:30:30Z")
[QUOTE=Nava] I write with my right because I was trained that way (and the training involved being hit by a ruler on the bunched ends of my fingers, I hope the teacher who did it had the worst case of haemorroids ever recorded) [/QUOTE] They still do that over there? I haven’t heard of that happening to anyone in the US who was younger than my parents. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-spare-hand-for/430292/28 "2007-12-18T06:11:33Z")
My left hand makes the sound of one hand clapping. ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-spare-hand-for/430292/29 "2007-12-18T06:40:10Z")
[QUOTE=Lobsang] What things do you force yourself to use your spare hand for? [/QUOTE] The balls. You can’t neglect the balls. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-spare-hand-for/430292/30 "2007-12-18T09:30:03Z")
[QUOTE=Flander] You got all the way to 99!?!? [/QUOTE] I’m almost 66, I have to pace myself 😛 ---
**Author:** ![tonedef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@tonedef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tonedef)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-spare-hand-for/430292/31 "2007-12-18T10:19:46Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] …97, 98, 99…change hands 😛 [/QUOTE] I thought your spare hand was for holding the magazine. BTW\> main use of my spare hand is to hold the nunchuck on my wii! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-spare-hand-for/430292/32 "2007-12-18T10:32:11Z")
[QUOTE=sturmhauke] I’m semi-ambidextrous. I can do most things with either hand, although I’m naturally right handed and still better with my right. [/QUOTE] I’m similar. Though I also use a drawing tablet instead of a mouse, and it’s not easy to swap my left hand to operate a pointing device when it’s not a conveniently shaped lump of plastic. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-spare-hand-for/430292/33 "2007-12-18T12:05:47Z")
Painting my nails. ---
**Author:** ![Barrington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Barrington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrington)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-spare-hand-for/430292/34 "2007-12-18T15:10:19Z")
While starting to brush my teeth with my right hand, my left is busily screwing the cap back onto the toothpaste tube. Thank you, Richard P Feynman, for that three seconds I save each time. ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-spare-hand-for/430292/35 "2007-12-18T19:09:46Z")
If I have food at the computer, I’ll eat it with my left hand. Otherwise it just kind of sits there, doing nothing. ---
**Author:** ![aptronym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@aptronym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aptronym)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-spare-hand-for/430292/36 "2007-12-18T22:11:52Z")
[QUOTE=tonedef] I thought your spare hand was for holding the magazine. [/QUOTE] I hold the magazine with my feet because I need both hands. ---
**Author:** ![T.Slothrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@T.Slothrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.Slothrop)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-spare-hand-for/430292/37 "2007-12-19T07:15:55Z")
I lost the use of one of my hands in Viet Nam. Now, it always seems to have a beer in it. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-spare-hand-for/430292/38 "2007-12-19T08:45:30Z")
[QUOTE=tonedef] I thought your spare hand was for holding the magazine. Magazine? You heard of DVDs at all? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-your-spare-hand-for/430292.md?page=1)