It's weird being a leftie

[pyoor_excuse]

I'm not left handed, I *eat* UK lefthanded (which confusingly appears to be American (or at least alaskan) right handed), but apart from that I'm a rightie. Yesterday I cut my finger on a bit of motorbike. Not a big cut, a little deeper than normal, but not sufficient to really cause issues. Only today it was a bit sore in the shower, so I've been attempting to lead with my left.

It feels very odd, very very odd. Just for fun I've been trying to properly work left handed and it's a very strange sensation.

In other news, I'm over my dumb mistakes yesterday, Dave reminded me that I should have replaced the pressure plate with it's teeny tiny fracture in anyway, so really, I should just let it all go.

So I have.

Ais has headed off too, I was worried about her visiting, we've been good talking online and whatever for ages, but I'd not seen her since she moved up north. In the end I've had a really nice, chilled out weekend; laughed loads, caught up and had a great deal of fun :-)

Ra!

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[inksafe.livejournal.com]

I *eat* UK lefthanded (which confusingly appears to be American (or at least alaskan) right handed)

What? I'm looking forward to this explanation :-)

[pyoor_excuse]

Well, iirc, when I was in Alaska there was a discussion of where to sit people around a big table, and someone said "I'm left handed", so I said "Oh, I eat left handed" - the idea being that I'd sit next to the true leftie, to avoid shoving elbows into other people. However, it turned out that you guys hold your cutlery the other way round to people in the UK (not to mention the entirely different table manners). So, whereas I have my fork in my right hand - and knife in the left - which is "UK Left Handed Eating"; that's US Right handed. Which is awfully confusing.

[howlsthunder.livejournal.com]

Well, most Americans hold their fork in their dominant hand and cut with the opposite hand.
I personally, however, am so bad at using a knife with my left hand (I am a righty) that I put my fork in my left hand and use the knife with my dominant hand and just keep it that way for the entire time I am using the knife.

Also, many Americans will alternately go ahead and cut with their dominant hand but then SWAP UTENSILS in their hands in order to then bring the food to their mouths. Which I think is highly innefficient. That's what I USED to do til I got the hang of using a fork left-handed.

[pyoor_excuse]

Aye, I don't get the chop-up then eat, but then it's just cultural stuff (if you do that here, then people think you eat like a kid, incidentally).

I am hopeless trying to eat the other way round, but tbh, I like eating 'backwards', it's just one of my quirks.