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My husband claims that left-handed people "always" listen to the phone with their left ear, and right-handed people will use their right ear. I'd never thought about it, but as it turns out... in our case, IT'S TRUE! Now I'm going to start observing which ear my friends hold their phones up to.
Anyway... here's a little poll and light diversion for your Friday morning... Do you think this is true? Does it apply to you?
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I'm right-handed and I mostly use my right ear. (SAME SIDE) | |
0 (0%) |
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I'm left-handed and I mostly use my left ear. (SAME SIDE) | |
2 (13%) |
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I'm right-handed and I mostly use the left ear. (OPPOSITE SIDE) | |
10 (67%) |
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I'm left-handed and I mostly use the right ear. (OPPOSITE SIDE) | |
1 (7%) |
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I'm right-handed and I have no particular preference. (IT VARIES, DEPENDING) | |
1 (7%) |
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I'm left-handed and I have no particular preference. (IT VARIES, DEPENDING) | |
1 (7%) |
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dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Rorey
(8,445 posts)I'm a multi-tasker, as I'm sure most of us are, and I hold my phone with my left hand so I can do things with my right hand.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)I also use my bluetooth earpiece in my left ear (left-handed) and at a previous job that used a hands-free telephone headset, I used my left ear.
I'm nearly ready for hearing aids (but not yet, I refuse, and they're expensive) but oddly enough, I think my preferred left ear is more deaf than the right one. Weird.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)(...during the Dark Ages of the 1960's in Waukesha County)
And I always hold the phone to my left ear. I get disoriented trying to listen to the phone with my right ear.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)(Thank goodness the speakers at the drive-through are on the left side!)
Siwsan
(26,178 posts)I write with my right hand. I hold utensils, drive, use a computer mouse or touch pad, among other things, with my left hand. Apparently I also shoot pool, left handed.
I hold a phone to my left ear. Last year I had a head cold and my left ear was particularly problematic. Of course I could HEAR with my right ear, but it just seemed clumsy.
Lochloosa
(16,019 posts)JDC
(10,084 posts)At work and my home office. Mostly so I can leave my right hand free to write w/ if I need to.
randr
(12,408 posts)This has me using my left for the phone and the right free to write.
Also I dial, or I guess as we do now "poke", with my right hand leaving the phone/cell in my left and I do not cross over my face to listen.
Do most people still call it dialing?
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)I call it dialing. (I also say "hang-up the phone" and "roll up the window".)
I'm sure there are other examples of outdated terms we still use.
My mom always referred to the refrigerator as an "ice box", and my father always called it a "Frigidaire" (no matter that brand it actually was.)
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)In a previous life... a co-worker in a nearby cubicle used a speaker phone LOUDLY! He'd talk loudly at the speaker phone and the volume of his speaker was loud enough so that everyone in the office could hear.
Because of him, the company I worked for added a speakerphone use policy/guidelines to the employee manual. It wasn't prohibited for the cubicle workers, but it was discouraged, and the volume had to be no louder than an ordinary spoken conversation.
Cirque du So-What
(25,812 posts)Seems natural to leave the dominant hand free for note-taking.
Besides, I never let the little man who lives in my right ear know what's going on.
sarge43
(28,939 posts)Kaleva
(36,147 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Before lightweight telephone headsets and bluetooth earpieces, I'd always cradle the phone receiver... between my shoulder and ear (leaving both hands free).
Even today... my home (landline/voip) phone has one of these attached to it. (I'm a bit old fashioned sometimes, but I do have a bluetooth earpiece!)
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)I don't know. But I do know that I try to avoid using my bluetooth earpiece in public (other than driving, or when I'm alone) because I don't want store clerks to think that I'm some crazy old lady talking to herself... or responding "pardon me?" thinking that I was asking/telling them something.
LeftInTX
(24,560 posts)In the old days, always cradled the receiver with my shoulders so I could write.
DFW
(54,057 posts)My mom was left-handed, and maybe some latent genes are directing my movements?
My wife has no left-handed people in her family at all, but our younger daughter is so strongly left-handed, she used to write things backwards (perfect mirror writing) when she first started to learn how to write. She should have been sent to school somewhere in the Middle East.
She got straightened out quickly, as she is so strongly left-handed, it became obvious early enough that none of her teachers tried to "correct" her.