OK, I'm right handed and basically I wear my watch on my right hand which a few people do but not most, but also when eating, I have my fork in my right hand and my knife in my left and when I was at friends houses when I was younger, I was occassionally told off for doing it wrong.

I don't know why I do it though, does anyone else do the same? and maybe know why.

Both hubby and his ex-wife are left handed so the kids have both grown up doing many things left handed (including cutlery) although they are both right handed. And I'm sure that one of them idolises her daddy so much that she'd do it just to do it the way he does, even if it wasn't natural to her. Both of them get told off by all and sundry too.

Most people don't though, wonder why we are any different. Plus, tables are always set with fork on left and nife on right, sometimes get funny looks when I have to change them over. Its annoying.

Celebrate your individuality- it's our differences that make us interesting.

:rolleyes: If that makes me unique, guess the dreaming about things before they happen aswell makes me very unique :clap:

Maybe I'm an angel :P

Sorry jimbo, you aint unique, as I too have me watch (when I wear one) on my right hand and the fork goes in the right hand too. .

I think its because we maybe true non conformists, as I do everythink with my right hand, so it makes sence to wear me watch on the right and the most important part of eating (the shovelling) is also designated the same paw. .

. . or I could be spouting more than a broken fountain. .

:clap: I'm not alone monkey, lol.

another annoying thing about it though is that my right arm is more muscular and bigger than my left, because I do practically everything with it :rolleyes: no dirty jokes please :P

I used to wear my watch on my left hand, then broke my arm and had to wear it on the right because of the pot.

Its been on my right wrist now for over 20 years! (Not the same watch of course!) and it feels very strange whenever I pop it onto my left.

yay someone else who does that! I thought i was the only person! I always get told its bad manners to have the knife and fork in the wrong hands, its so annoying cos its as natural as holding a pen in my right hand is to me, if i try the other way its just wrong... just plain wrong.

If I'm just scoffing in private, or with my BF who wouldnt know etiquette if it came and knocked him out, I put my fork in my right hand...

Otherwise, I eat "Properly" with the fork in the left :confused:

I'm right-handed - watch on the left, fork in the right and knife in the left - have done for years.

Although certain people whinge that it is incorrect!

:)

I do this too - both my parents are left handed so it was just how they set the table for us and put my first wristwatch on for me as a kid!

When I first moved in with my boyfriend (now Hubby) he was confused why I had the kettle up facing the wrong way etc etc as I was right handed...of course it was how it had always been at home!!

I now eat with my fork in my left and knife in my right and the kettle faces 'spout to the West' but I still wear my watch on my right wrist!!

:D

I'm glad I am not the only one who wears their watch on their right wrist.

I've not met anyone else who does it and I don't know why I do it. It just feels a lot more 'normal' for it to be there.

So, if I'm a freak, at leats I'm not on my own!

Wilf

I wear my watch on my right hand and still get whinged at by my parents for it. I'm not sure why i started doing it, probably just felt right.

My little sister has always eaten with her cutlery in the 'wrong' hands and now when we set the table i just automatically put hers the opposite way round.

Interesting.

I write with my left hand. My desk is set up left-handed (computer keyboard and Adding Machine on my left). I cannot work where either of these items are on the right. When I drink, I hold my pint in my left hand. However, my watch goes on my right wrist.

But!

When it comes to eating, it's knife in the left hand and fork on the right (which is comfortable enough; it doesn't feel awkward). But if I eat (say soup) from a spoon, then it's back in the left hand!

When it comes to music, I'm a right handed guitarist; can play the piano in the usual manner. I was quite ambidexterous when it came to drumming though. Naturally right handed (that is the hand that leads on fills and is usually the hand playing the hi-hats/ride cymbal) I found I could also play left handed quite well too, albeit on a right hand kit.

Wierd? Nah, just yer typical Gemini I'd guess.

I've always wore my watch on my right arm... used to get teased about it when i was younger because apperently only girls wear it there? whatever!

anyways im right handed, wear watch on my right wrist and eat "normally"... unless its a rice dish in which case its fork in the right hand and shovelling :D

then again sometimes i get shouted at a lot when im hungry because i use both my knife and fork to shovel food into my mouth... mum used to get so angry "one of these days you'll cut yourself!"... still havent yet ;) maybe one day i'll start to eat with two forks :hihi:

I must be unique then! I am RIGHT handed, wear my watch on my LEFT wrist, at home i have my fork in my RIGHT hand, but when eating out its apparently not the done thing to eat "cack handed"...

I drum right handed (right lead on fills, and hi-hats on my right), i mix with both hands, and have my work headset on my right ear!

I guess in just muddled up?

Im left handed but i eat right handed, i play football left footed but when im playing cricket i bowl left handed over the wicket and bat right handed!!!

Strange :D

Me too - watch on right hand, fork in right hand.

Only trouble is having to take off the watch to reset the time etc, because watches are designed to be worn on the left hand, so they can be wound / changed etc while still worn on the wrist (why all buttons / knobs are usually on the right side of a watch)

I too have my watch on my right hand and also hold my knife and fork in the wrong hand, as does my dad, as does my brother, i thought we were the only ones, glad to know theres more like us lol

:clap: When I started this thread I was looking for an answer to why I'm different, lol, but it seems there are more that do the same than realised.

Originally posted by caprice
If I'm just scoffing in private, or with my BF who wouldnt know etiquette if it came and knocked him out, I put my fork in my right hand...

Otherwise, I eat "Properly" with the fork in the left :confused:

It's the same here- you can eat quicker with the fork in your right hand. Well I can anyway!!!!:)

I used to wear my watch on my left hand since I was six. I went into the Navy at the age of 20 and we weren't allowed to wear watches, but soon after I came out of bootcamp I started wearing it on my right. I just didn't feel right on my left hand anymore. Also I usually cut with either hand, left or right. Which ever feels comfortable at the moment.

...and have my work headset on my right ear!

I ALWAYS use my left ear on the phone. Everyone i've worked with uses a headset on the right but i always have to flip the mic round the other way round if i take a call on someone elses phone. If i'm holding a handset, using a headset/mic or using a mobile handsfree in my car it's always to my left ear. Just feels wrong if i use my right ear.

-PK-

If you asked Drusilla Beyfuss (etiquette person in I think the Daily Mail :gag:) she would say it was bad manners to use the knife and fork in the opposite hands. (She also has issues about breastfeeding, so I tend to disagree with her on most things, but I digress...)

However, we are not having dinner with royalty here, so just be who you are. Swapping sides with a knife and fork at a table setting? Hardly changing a tyre is it? You can always do it discreetly if 'looks' are a problem for you. Or make up a quip about it.

Watches do not come with the same instructions is it depends on your dexterity and when watches had winders, you would up your watch with your most dextrous hand.

I'd say get on with being different but don't try to work out why. Just enjoy it.

I wear watches on my right hand aswell, but I hold my fork with my left hand

Sorry jimbo, you aint unique, as I too have me watch (when I wear one) on my right hand and the fork goes in the right hand too. .

I think its because we maybe true non conformists, as I do everythink with my right hand, so it makes sence to wear me watch on the right and the most important part of eating (the shovelling) is also designated the same paw. .

. . or I could be spouting more than a broken fountain. .

Me too, I am right handed and wear my watch, put my fork in my right hand!!

I thought it was just me too!

I'm right handed
I wear my watch on the left - always have
I eat with my fork in my right hand

The one that always annoys my hubby, is the fact that I iron with my left hand, so if he goes to iron something, he has to turn the ironing board to face the other way cause he irons with his right hand - he said I was wierd! :hihi:

The one that always annoys my hubby, is the fact that I iron with my left hand, so if he goes to iron something, he has to turn the ironing board to face the other way cause he irons with his right hand - he said I was wierd! :hihi:

Your lucky enough having a husband who Irons :hihi:

I eat with my knife and folk in the wrong hands too - im right handed - i find it impossible to eat "the proper way" i struggle its very uncomfortable!

I always get told off by my boyfriend for eating the wrong way! Because i hold my folk in my right hand i find it extremely difficult to cut things up without it flinging across the table - i always get people amused by the way i eat - its quite funny really! If i have steak i stick my knife in told hold it down on my plate then get my folk and drag the piece of meat that i want, if im going out with my boyfriend he has to chop my food up for me cus he gets really embarrased but then again i do when hes doing that! I dont wear a watch but if i did it would be on my right wrist!

I'm right-handed and wear my watch on my left wrist. I hold my fork in my left hand, knife in my right, but if I'm only using a spoon, or eating with just a fork, I hold it in my right. I text left-handed, but the one thing people think is strange is that I carry my bag on my left shoulder, not my right. And when I was younger, I sucked my left thumb. I do things in the kitchen left-handed, simply because of the position of my cooker/over and my washing machine, so I think I'm fairly abidextrous (sp?) at a lot of things.

My dad, on the other hand if you'll pardon the pun, is left-handed. He played cricket and golf right-handed but played squash, tennis and badminton left-handed. And he wears his watch on his left wrist.

im right handed. until recently wore my watch on my left wrist & an id bracelet on my right.however the bracelet irritates me when playing badminton,and as i never take it off i now wear it on my left & my watch on my right.
i eat properly knife in right etc. americans are bred to use only one piece of cutlery ,which is why they use the fork as a cutting implememnt as well.

I am right handed, but always swap over my knife and fork in resturants and things..i used to get told off for it too...I have to iron with my left hand, but do everything else with my right hand

My daughter does this. Right handed in everything except eating. I tried and tried when she was younger but....34 and still doing it. Totally natural to her.

I can't see I'm going to change now either, been too long with the habbit of doing it in the wrong manner. Although I can do it right at a push if I'm somewhere posh :P

Lol, I can't! I just figure, if no-one likes that I eat the way I feel most comfortable, then **** them...I don't care :D


I can't see I'm going to change now either, been too long with the habbit of doing it in the wrong manner. Although I can do it right at a push if I'm somewhere posh :P