If you are ambidextrous, feel smug and ignore this.<\/p>\n
This is a bit counterintuitive. I used to keep them in my strong-side pocket for years. It’s natural to use your strong hand to unlock a door or buy a sandwich. But it causes problems when you need to open a door while carrying something awkward\/heavy (say groceries, a cat, etc).<\/p>\n
You should<\/em> be carrying awkward things with your strong hand. It’s safer and easier. But when your strong-hand is full, it’s hard to get keys from your strong-side pocket. Meanwhile, keys in your weak-side pocket are still easy to employ. <\/p>\n I’m not especially dexterous, but in my experience, using my weak hand to unlock something hasn’t been a problem. I expected it to be harder, but honestly it hasn’t been perceptibly more difficult. Keeping keys in my weak-side pocket has been nothing but good.<\/p>\n But, anything you need to use while your strong hand is full should still live on your weak side with your keys. Phones make handy flashlights, for example.<\/p>\n I’ve been trying to train myself to do this for years<\/em>, and I haven’t been able to.<\/p>\n The theory is that your weak hand is plenty up to the task of bringing a glass to your mouth (if it isn’t, you shouldn’t be drinking!), and it’s useful to have your strong hand free. Plus holding a cold drink makes your hand cold and wet, which surprisingly isn’t cool<\/em> when you need to shake with that hand. So holding drinks in your left hand = a better first impression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you are ambidextrous, feel smug and ignore this. Keep your keys, wallet, or whatever opens doors, in your weak-side pocket. This is a bit counterintuitive. I used to keep them in my strong-side pocket for years. It’s natural to use your strong hand to unlock a door or buy a sandwich. But it causes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10,8],"tags":[277],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-tips","category-usability","tag-ergonomics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Mobile-phones, pocketknives, cameras, PDAs, etc. should be in your strong-side pocket.<\/H3> You should be using your strong-hand when you use them, but more importantly you (generally) don’t need to use them while carrying something. Cutting stuff while carrying a bag of groceries is a bad idea, for example.<\/p>\n
Hold drinks with your weak hand.<\/h3>\n