If you are like me, and are always chasing a good chuckle, I highly recommend brushing your teeth. But there is a catch. You have to brush your teeth with your non-dominant hand (in case you don't know what that is, I'll phrase it another way-- use the hand you don't normally use, Einstein).
A few problems will become immediately apparent: 1) laughing while brushing your teeth is much better at serving the laugh than the brushing; 2) the simple routine of teeth brushing, programmed into your schema for years and years, was disconnected for your 'off' hand. You may not know where to begin.
Naturally, this challenge got me to thinking what else I might try with my non-dominant hand and have a number of other things to put on my list.
When I'm feeling dare-devil-ish, I may try shaving with my Gillette Fusion! Five blades! All poorly controlled on my face and head! Sounds great! (I'm a Mr. Clean type, so shave my head as well, but may risk a new name - Nick -- if I do that). Perhaps someone who reads this blog could try it first and let me know how it goes... Then again, I wouldn't want to be responsible for what may happen.
Also challenging, for those of you like me who wear contact lenses, guide those thin plastic 20/20 providers very carefully... You could shoot your eye out, son....
Spend a week waving to everyone with your 'off' hand. Focus... Focus... you will undoubtedly forget. It doesn't look or feel that strange, but it's sort of a battle of wills with yourself. Who will win?
Sign your name for a week with the forgotten hand. Even though the signature will look horrible for the first 6 days, you'll still be able to cash checks (I think.... Don't come running to me for reimbursement when your birthday check from Aunt Lucinda is not honored due to attempted forging on your part.)
Unlock all doors with your 'off' hand. Once you do this, you'll have some mad skilz! (Less impressive is those of you with keyless entry to your post 1990 autos claiming victory on this one. Just because you are rich and don't use keys, use the metal and try seeing the world like us po' folk for once... sheesh!)
In sum... this costs virtually nothing to do, and is seriously quite funny. Let me know what laughter successes you have with this theme!
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I find your posts quite humorous! Something perhaps not quite so humorous would be the challenge of crossing your hands and using opposite hands on the keyboard to type a post--wonder how long that would take...not quite willing to try it myself, but trying to be helpful with a suggestion... :)
Marie - thanks for the comment. I had thought of keyboarding in some fashion and doing a cross up like you suggest does sound interesting... although as you allude to, it may take forever to write a single sentence-- and rather than laugh, it might make me curse under my breath. Interesting idea though! I bet the folks who do the 'hunt and peck' method of typing would probably appreciate their version of typing as humorous, if they crossed up their hands. However, not being a hunt and peck guy, I probably couldn't appreciate the difference. It would all feel strange either way.
Hey Pete -
I made crepes last night - yes I know they're a breakfast food but I am a big fam of breakfast for dinner. Anyway I had to use a whisk to whip up the eggs, milk and flour. Having just read your post I tried using my nondominant hand and low and behold spent the next 10 minutes cleaning up egg, flour and milk from the counter, cupboards and floor. I think the humor in that experiment was enjoyed more by my girls than me. I'll have to work up from hard to stir items to whisking. It did feel rather odd. Glad to have your thoughts in the blog world!
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