Cindy, that's what I tell people who give me grief.

They don't listen to me, but I don't listen to them, either. So it all works out.

Why on earth do people care what wrist you wear your watch on? That's a weird thing to get peer pressured about. Says the right-handed non-watch wearer.

On another note, I remember seeing coffee cups with "Cup of tea, cup of tea, almost got shagged..." on them somewhere. I thought CafePress, but I can't find them there now. ANyone know if they still exist?

I'm a lefty, watch on right wrist. And I've taken grief for it.

Same here. I also used to wear my belt backwards until I got this tacky Texan belt with a huge emblem of a horse on the buckle. When a few folks pointed out that my horse was upside down I realized I better switch it up. And stop wearing the Texan belt. Done 'em both.

I can think of at least one right-handed person I know who wears their watch on their right wrist.

<Waves wrist-watched right-hand before getting back to writing my exercise with it>

Okay, two.

Not listening to them is the only sensible course. I just don't know why they think they get to have a say about another person's watch, to begin with. I'd support your efforts to wear it on your right wrist, even if you were a righty. Darn it.

Do you have a lot of lefties in your family, Fred? Dh's family seems to have a strong left handed gene, but our kids are all righties.

Same here. I also used to wear my belt backwards until I got this tacky Texan belt with a huge emblem of a horse on the buckle. When a few folks pointed out that my horse was upside down I realized I better switch it up. And stop wearing the Texan belt. Done 'em both.

Do you have a lot of lefties in your family, Fred?

Some on my mother's side. My mother herself is right-handed but fairly ambidextrous. Her brother was forced to be right-handed and ended up dyslexic.

I do some things right-handed because I have to. I can't use lefty scissors anymore because I had to use righties for so many years.

In school, I had a speech that I'd recycle on left-handedness and the ways the world was set up for people unlike us. Lots of little things, like the way tables are set -- when I sit down at a restaurant, the first thing I do is switch the silverware around.

Hubby's a leftie, as is my oldest sister. She used to get severe scoldings in school for her unwillingness to conform. She just turned 50, by the way, so this was quite a while ago. I think things have improved. I have heard tales of kids having their left hands tied to their bodies so they were forced to use their right hands.

I have heard tales of kids having their left hands tied to their bodies so they were forced to use their right hands.

This happened to my Great Grandmother, must have been late 19th century. She made sure that any left handed kids born to her descendents would absolutely be allowed to use whatever hand they wanted, but it hasn't been a practical issue yet. Though my nephew bats lefty.

I am the token right-handed person in a family of lefties. I have some sense of what it's like to be left-handed, since everything at my mother's house is set up for left-handed people. My grandmother was left handed and at school they tied her left hand behind her back to make her write right-handed. As is commonly the case, she stuttered as a result.

Do you have a lot of lefties in your family, Fred? Dh's family seems to have a strong left handed gene, but our kids are all righties.

Cindy, this is getting even further off the subject, but my husband's family seems to have a lot of lefties -- three of the four siblings are left-handed. And then my dad is left-handed. So, I'd almost be surprised if we have multiple children and they're all righties.

My father and Patrick both wear their watches on the left wrist. My hypothesis is that, out of sheer need, lefties are better at doing things right-handed than righties are at doing things left-handed, though this varies -- Patrick is basically an ambidextrous person who happens to write with his left hand, whereas my dad's left hand is much more dominant.

Also, when I was in kindergarten, I insisted on using the left-handed scissors, because they were like the ones my dad used.

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