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post Feb 27 2006, 08:17 PM
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I'm a righty.  I use tools with either hand with the same dexterity and strength, more or less.  I shoot a rifle left handed, and it was really painful in AF basic training, because the M16 ejected into my sleeve.  Burn city!.  I cannot shoot right handed, and I've tried a number of times over the years.
I occasionally drive a RHD 356, and I become disoriented after I leave the car.  Wierd.  The Cap'n

When were you in basic? July of 66 for me. Amarillo AFB. Sorry I guess I hijacked another one.
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Wing wiper air scouts...... Lucky you two didn't shoot yourselves in the foot.....


Leave the shooting to the Army. We know how to do it right. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif)


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post Feb 27 2006, 08:36 PM
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I'm a righty...but I golf and play baseball left handed (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wacko.gif) Haven't driven a rt- hand drive yet,so don't know;but I do speak 3 langs?
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post Feb 27 2006, 08:42 PM
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a buddy of mine used to work for VW and got his hands on a euro spec GTI last year.  Felt almost as natural shifting with the left....

That would be a RHD car, spec'd for the UK .... The rest of Europe drives on the right, just like we do

(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/agree.gif) almost all of europe is LHD ...

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post Feb 27 2006, 08:49 PM
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QUOTE (Cap'n Krusty @ Feb 27 2006, 07:51 PM)
I shoot a rifle left handed, and it was really painful in AF basic training, because the M16 ejected into my sleeve. Burn city!. I cannot shoot right handed, and I've tried a number of times over the years.

You have a left master eye. I am right handed for writing and throwing a baseball, but everything else I do on the left side, including shooting. I have had some nice burn marks on the inside of my right elbow from hot shells, and I have yet to find a left-hand or bottom ejecting auto-loader.



I am also very jealous of you guys who can use both hands for everything. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
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post Feb 27 2006, 09:18 PM
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I am also very jealous of you guys who can use both hands for everything. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

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post Feb 27 2006, 10:10 PM
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I'm left handed and have had no problem shifting for all these years. I drove a car in the Cayman Islands one day, where they drive on the left side as in England. The RHD with left handed shifting wasn't so bad, but turning right at a four way stop with lots of traffic was a real treat. Try to figure out whose turn is next and which lane you need to turn into!
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post Feb 27 2006, 10:44 PM
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I'm the only one in my family thats left-handed. No, aunts uncles or cousins too. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/blink.gif) 1st grade teacher tried to make me write with my left until my mom found out and read her the riot act. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif) I eat, hold a pool cue and write left. Play ping-pong with both hands. Bowl right. Coudn't use a pair of sissors until a was 10. My right is my stronger arm (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/confused24.gif) Play most sports right.

Problem being left handed is with you get up in a unfamiliar house your natural instinct when you reach to turn on a lamp is to use your left hand but, you forget its on the right-side and end up knocking yourself out trying to turn it on.

Never tried to drive a right side car but, I think I could handle it, Maybe. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/unsure.gif)

Woudn't mind having a left handed watch one of these years.
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post Feb 27 2006, 10:45 PM
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I am a lefty and used to work at a shop that restored all english cars. most of our shop and customer cars were rhd. after shifting lefty while running errands and test drives all day, driving home in a 914 was a truly disorienting experience! I am actually considering an rhd conversion on the teener, rhd just feels soooo good!vile temptress! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/sawzall-smiley.gif)
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