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    Challenge !!!

    try to tig weld opposit handed, or like my son bend neon tubes off-handed , or take a different way to work . or try to write a letter in the mirror , or if you have a back fourty and an old car try to drive 30mph in reverse , you will have stimulated the better half of your brain!!!!

    by the way I was able to drive 40 mph in reverse on the frozen river with the snow-mobiles before I had a driver's lisense !!! but I can't break out of the lower-middle-class ???

    I'm not sure I really want to !!!


    those SUV people don't look real happy !!!

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    Try doing anything in the mirror! My wife cuts my hair, or at least the back of it. I can do the sides, but using my left hand (I'm right-handed) in the mirror to cut the left side of my head takes some time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by whateg0
    Try doing anything in the mirror! My wife cuts my hair, or at least the back of it. I can do the sides, but using my left hand (I'm right-handed) in the mirror to cut the left side of my head takes some time.

    Dave
    I don't know if I'd persist with your hair ; but with other (less vissible stuff )you can actually increase your standing define that your own way

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    Cutting/cleaning your fingernails on your right hand is a ***** too.... Being that that I'm a right handed person its a little awkward but it seems like sooner or later i would get used to it.
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    Phil,

    Do you sit up nights thinkin' about this stuff? How does one tell how fast one is going in reverse? The speedo don't register going backwards, do it?

    I ain't worried - I can drink with either hand just as good!

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    the bigger query is, drivin' backwards lookin' out the back window or inna mirror?

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    Quote Originally Posted by hankj
    Phil,

    Do you sit up nights thinkin' about this stuff? How does one tell how fast one is going in reverse? The speedo don't register going backwards, do it?

    I ain't worried - I can drink with either hand just as good!

    Hank
    you need to have the guys on the snow modiles tell you how fast you are going , fortunatly there were a few still daring enough to stay along side after the first 20 or so attemts

    OR maybe it was 20mph and first 40 attempts ??
    But it was good clean fun iether way

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    Quote Originally Posted by hankj
    Phil,

    Do you sit up nights thinkin' about this stuff? How does one tell how fast one is going in reverse? The speedo don't register going backwards, do it?

    I ain't worried - I can drink with either hand just as good!

    Hank
    Hank,

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    Quote Originally Posted by hankj
    Phil,

    Do you sit up nights thinkin' about this stuff? How does one tell how fast one is going in reverse? The speedo don't register going backwards, do it?

    I ain't worried - I can drink with either hand just as good!

    Hank
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    driving on the frozen river brings back memories growing up on a lake me and my buddy would take his dads 82 buick riveara out on the ice and get going about 70-75 and put it in reverse and punch it the front wheel drive would catch and put the car into about 20-30 spins with the g force pegging you back in the seats

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    OK, here's an easy one to get to. Switch hands to use your mouse. If you are right-handed, now use the left. It gets even better when you go to the "Draw and paint" programs. (...ain't that left click button a *****!!??)
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    Quote Originally Posted by bigdogjoe62
    driving on the frozen river brings back memories growing up on a lake me and my buddy would take his dads 82 buick riveara out on the ice and get going about 70-75 and put it in reverse and punch it the front wheel drive would catch and put the car into about 20-30 spins with the g force pegging you back in the seats
    WOW , never did a lake , I did get to experience the incredible G-force, just a couple three times , but it wasn't on purpose ( on a river you run out of steight sometimes)

    Thanks so much for posting !!!!

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    Tig welding left handed - check
    Using the mouse left handed with and w/o the buttons reversed - check
    Cutting and painting fingernails with either hand - of course (can't go around with only one hand painted and clipped)
    Writing left handed - check (you have to put it up to a mirror to read it though.)
    Snowmobiling - never tried it

    If you guys really want a challenge, try putting a pencil in each hand, starting from a center point and write outwards with both hands at the same time

    siht ekil kool dluohs tI It should look like this

    BTW - my left hand is not my dominant hand

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    Try welding with your left hand looking at a mirror while standing on a scaffold pole 125' of the ground. You know the job's going to suck when you hire on and they give you 2 mirrors with magnetic bases. Oh what great fun.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tim R.
    Try welding with your left hand looking at a mirror while standing on a scaffold pole 125' of the ground. You know the job's going to suck when you hire on and they give you 2 mirrors with magnetic bases. Oh what great fun.

    Best I ever saw was when I worked at a shipyard. I was just a glorified ironworker that was allowed to tack, but had to request a "real" welder in order to nail things down permanent.

    In one instance I had to tack two pieces of pipe to a bulkhead on the inside of a tank. The tank was probably only about 2 ft square and had one opening in the top. I had to hang upside down and looking backwards to get it stuck to the wall, about 6" off the deck, and thought that was a major accomplishment. When the welder showed up I thought "weld that, sucker". The welder takes one look, tapes a mirror to the right boot, bends the rod into about a 45, sticks one arm and mirrored foot into the tank and welded that sucker 360 deg without breakin a sweat. SHE gets done and says "no sweat, eh?". She was from wisconsin and the best **** welder I'd ever seen. Anytime I needed crap welded I always requested her because she never *****ed, would work her *** off ( a rather nice one at that), and always got the job done.
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