Which hand do you...

[luxflairguy]

Push the vacuum with?

Do you use your dominant hand? Or do you switch back and forth?
I push a vacuum around on a daily basis and while I'm left handed, I don't vacuum exclusively with the left hand. I tend to prefer to use my left/dominant hand for all cleaning using a canister vacuum and/or central vacuum. But I find myself using my right hand more and more using my Kirby Sentria. But using small head Kirby's I use my left hand. There is something about the balance of the large head machines that makes me prefer my right hand. I feel I have more control of the big girl with my right hand. I'm going to take both my large and small heads with me Friday when I use my Heritage II to see which hand works best with which heads.
Tell me about which hand you use! FOR VACUUMING! Greg

 

[texaskirbyguy]

I use my right, dominant hand.
When the tendonitus my elbow starts flaring up, I switch to my left.
When my shoulder tendonitus starts acting up, I switch back to my right.
Repeat above until finished...

 

[seijun]

On a related note.. My mom was born left-handed, but she was forced in school to write with her right hand. She still writes with her right hand to this day, but her writing is very hard to read.

 

[kirbysthebest]

Left to Right

I'm Trans-handed too.


I was a lefty, and was forced in school to write Right handed. 

 

[kenkart]

I do

EVERYTHING,,,,,,,right handed!

 

[human]

I am primarily left-handed but I can do more with my right hand than most right-handed people can do with their left. I write, use a fork, bat and golf left handed but I regularly switch off hand tools from one hand to the other, depending on which I can get a better angle with. Ironically, I seem to have more strength in my right hand, so when I need to break a particularly stubborn bolt loose, that's the hand I use. One thing I absolutely cannot do with my left hand is throw a Frisbee. I also use a computer mouse with my right hand. I first knew I was left-handed at about the age of five when I couldn't use right-handed scissors. Today, I'm pretty good at using scissors with my right hand.

One of the best experiences I had in terms of developing dexterity in my right hand was checking groceries when I was in high school (1981-82). I hated working there but I appreciated what I gained from it, even as I was doing it. The store did not yet have UPC scanners, so I had to key in prices and produce lookup numbers with my right hand while moving the items along with my left. I never developed the speed (items per minute) that my right-handed colleagues had but I was reasonably accurate.

When I was a newspaper reporter (1987-1991), I found I had a singular advantage over my right-handed colleagues in that I could sit in a meeting and take notes with my left hand while taking pictures with my right.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

The Sisters wanted to 'switch' me.

My mother forbid it. I'm a lefty, BUT, I write like a nun....taught penmanship. I taught myself the 'other way'.
I'm almost ambidextrous, but I do favor the left.....raking, sweeping, painting, and the like.

 

[ultralux88]

I write with my right hand, but in every other activity I’m ambidextrous. I’ve noticed, when eating steak, for example, most right handed people use their right hand to cut and hold the fork with their left. I’ve always used the knife left handed, if fact it feels clumsy to use my right hand with the knife.

 

[madman]

I'm a righty, but it's always bothered me that I wasn't ambidextrous. Many years ago, I began shaving with my left hand. Unfortunately, I've been doing it so long, if I try to shave right handed, I have a hard time! I also try to switch back and forth while I'm working. I'm getting pretty good at using my left hand for domninant hand stuff. What fascinated me most when I started switching things up, was just how bad at secondary hand stuff I was with my right hand. I was actually lacking the motor skills with my right that I had with my left (and vice versa).