I'm right handed but I always open safes with my left hand. Do you do anything with your off-hand?
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@Ronnie Yes, I do *anything* with my off-hand. My kids leave me no choice more often than not ;-)
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@schmidt_fu Yes... Kids. Good point. Mine are older now.
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@Ronnie so they stopped climbibg your arms like a tree? That would make many things easier :-)
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@schmidt_fu my 19-year old just stopped last week. Thank goodness. It was getting a little awkward.
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@schmidt_fu and a little heavy.
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@Ronnie Yeah, I imagine *weight* becomes a problem of it's own then. I started lifting things that became lighter than my kids some years ago, and the training effect shows ;-)
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@Ronnie I broke my right arm as a child and can't turn my right palm face up. That impacts a lot of things, enough that I don't even think about it.
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@phoneboy Wow! Does it still hurt?
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@Ronnie If it still hurt 35 years later, it'd be a real problem. As I said, I've lived with it so long that I hardly notice it anymore. It still occasionally throws my wife off, though.
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@phoneboy I bet you don't do very well with patty cake.
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@Ronnie patty cake is fine, it's the "down low fives" I have an issue with.
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@phoneboy I hit a street sign, while not sober, 20+ years ago and my pinky still randomly hurts.
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@Ronnie nerve damage. :(
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@phoneboy probably. I just live with it. Don't try to hit a street sign with a mag light and ram your hand into said street sign while traveling in a car at fast speed.
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@Ronnie You have a random pinky??

@phoneboy
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@Ronnie I'm right-handed but I bat and golf left-handed.
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@larand @Ronnie Born favoring my left hand but it was slammed in a car door when I was three and I nearly lost fingers. Became right handed after that. The only vestige of leftyhood remaining is that I bat left-handed.
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@GTWilson @Ronnie My theory is that it's because my dad taught me how to hold a bat. He was born left-handed and was forced to switch when he went to school in the 1930s. But they didn't make him switch for batting, so...
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@larand that's interesting.
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@Ronnie I'm left-handed but shake hands conventionally, and, er… this: http://bazbt3.github.io/2014/05/17/Shame/
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@bazbt3 Interesting story. I guess you don't have an issue with your small hands?
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@Ronnie Exactly. And if it so happens that something becomes impossible I get my tool out.
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