"Aidan Stanger" wrote in message
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"Darren" ] wrote:
"Martin Underwood" wrote...
- Why should an action such as holding a ticket be a "handed"
operation?
I'm sure as a right-hander I'd have no difficulty whatsoever holding a
ticket in my left hand and feeding into a slot on the left side of the
barrier if that's how the barriers were designed. Are left-handed
people
less ambidextrous (apart from skilled actions like writing) than
right-handed people?

I don't know. I'm right handed but more than once my right hand's been
full so I've been in the slightly awkward situation of having to use my
left hand to feed my ticket into a slot on the right side of the
barrier...

To me it isn't a problem, I'm left handed, and can happily work a ticket
gate with my right hand, I also do other things the right handed way, I
use
a computer mouse with the right.

Ergonomic studies have shown that it's better to use the mouse with the
left hand because it's less far to reach (due to the keyboard's number
pad). Of course whether this is really less stressful depends on the
design of the mouse. Mac users have an advantage there!

I believe it is also common for left handed people to hold a knife and
fork
wrong, with the knife in the left - not me though.
Its these silly people who start requiring Left handed clocks that work
backwards and such which make left handed people seem strange.

It's when they start demanding left handed tube maps that you really
have to worry :-)

My maths teacher at school, normally a very strait-laced guy, let his hair
down on the "all-the-sevens" date 7 July 1977 and revealed his party trick:
he was ambidextrous. He could write in various ways:

- start with left hand on LH blackboard then continue with right hand on RH
blackboard

- write forwards with right hand and backwards (mirror) with left hand - and
vice versa

- write left-to-right with both hands on one line then right-to-left (but
NOT mirror image!) on next line: like a dot matrix printer did


We were well impressed.