Left Hand Gloves (again!)

[Billhook]

So I am totally left handed.  I admit my lifetime weakness of putting things down and then spending half a day looking for them.  I am beyond redemption in that respect.   So I end up buying things like gloves and little screwdrivers and hammers in tens from Amazon

You would think that there would be just one left hand glove kicking around

Somewhere there must be a mountain of gloves, screwdrivers, hammers, Stanley knives.............

[difflock]

Yet, oddly enough, despite my being VERY strongly right handed, I wear out the left glove of any pair, so I got a whole collection of good right gloves, but no matching lefts, probably because I retain the tool in my right hand and scrabble about/manually handle with my "free" left hand.

[Billhook]

Damn!  I thought we might have come to a convenient arrangement!

[daveatdave]

13 hours ago, Billhook said:

So I am totally left handed.  I admit my lifetime weakness of putting things down and then spending half a day looking for them.  I am beyond redemption in that respect.   So I end up buying things like gloves and little screwdrivers and hammers in tens from Amazon

You would think that there would be just one left hand glove kicking around

Somewhere there must be a mountain of gloves, screwdrivers, hammers, Stanley knives.............

bit like socks 

[Billhook]

13 minutes ago, daveatdave said:

bit like socks 

No, I am not willing to have an arrangement with anyone's socks!

[Billhook]

18 hours ago, difflock said:

Yet, oddly enough, despite my being VERY strongly right handed, I wear out the left glove of any pair, so I got a whole collection of good right gloves, but no matching lefts, probably because I retain the tool in my right hand and scrabble about/manually handle with my "free" left hand.

You would think that you would take your right glove off and leave it somewhere so that you can flip the fiddly start switch on your chainsaw, or operate the safety lock on most power tools or push  the buttons on your phone.   I do not buy the "scrabbling around with my left hand" because you  are mostly steadying the bit of wood with your left hand so why would you need to take your glove off?

[difflock]

Well, I only wear gloves in extremis, and mostly hoking through hardcore or ploutering about  with mortar('cos my skin hates cement) I never wear them working with saws or timber(though I know I should), Agent Orange easily getting the resin off my hands when washing them.

And I still got ALL the tools I bought over a 40 year period, only having lost 2 knives, one recently(probably below the roofspace flooring I was working at), a laser spirit level(left on a G Wagen bonnet that the wife then took to the town), and a wee short extension for my 3/8" socket set, most recently(most preturbing that, specially since I dumped the drum of workshop scrap in the interim, hmmm?) I also know where I lost the first knife btw.

I suppose that puts me well up on the Obsessive Complusive index.

Hmmm, FFS! now pondering about the likely whereabouts of a particular hammer I havnt seen in a while.

Edited May 15, 2020 by difflock

[Dan Maynard]

I could definitely swap you a few, I always knacker the right glove so have left ones spare kicking around.

[Wonky]

99 change hands ???????

 

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that wasn’t funny  was it.. ????

Edited May 15, 2020 by Wonky

[Billhook]

2 hours ago, Wonky said:

99 change hands ???????

 

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that wasn’t funny  was it.. ????

Could be funny if I could understand it.  A quick google came up with Red Dwarf followed by this.

Explain please!

 

When you get to 99 change hands..........(nt)

In reply to CleverTrousers • Apr 28, 2005

 

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