I Am Right Handed But...

mawnansmiff

Lifer

Oct 14, 2015

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• Sep 10, 2016

• #1

I am right handed but I smoke with my pipe in my left hand. I only really noticed this yesterday and it struck me as rather odd.
Does anyone else do this and does anyone know why? I have tried smoking with the pipe in my right hand but it feels rather alien to me.
Not being a clencher I always have to hold my pipe so I wonder if it's a psychological thing of leaving my right hand free in case I need to do something.
Anyone out there experience this?
Regards,
Jay.

 

ashdigger

Lifer

Jul 30, 2016

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Vegas Baby!!!

• Sep 10, 2016

• #2

I'm left handed and on the occasion I hold my pipe, it's with my right hand. My left hand is for more important things.

 

carver

Part of the Furniture Now

Mar 29, 2015

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Belgium

• Sep 10, 2016

• #3

nope, I am right handed, hold my pipe, when I do, with my right hand... it can happen that I use my left hand, but it's really just occasionally.
I wonder why it happens to you differently...

IMHO, we know so little about the brain, we won't figure it out in our life time :wink:

 

papipeguy

Lifer

Jul 31, 2010

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• Sep 10, 2016

• #4

I a rightie but hold my pipe in my left hand. I suspect many of us use our opposite hand to hold our pipes though I don't know why that is. I seem to recall a similar topic to this from several years ago.

 

mawnansmiff

Lifer

Oct 14, 2015

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Sunny Cornwall, UK.

• Sep 10, 2016

• #5

"Guess I'm ambidextrous when not clenching."
So when clenching are you right or left handed?
I reckon it's the psychological thing of keeping your 'handed' hand free and ready for other tasks.
I'm trying to think which hand I used when I smoked RYO but can't recall despite doing it for nigh on 40 years
Regards,
Jay.

 

didimauw

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Jul 28, 2013

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• Sep 10, 2016

• #6

I'm the same way. I guess I'm not good with a lighter in my left hand. I also open soda bottle caps and such with my left hand.

 

bryguysc

Can't Leave

Feb 4, 2015

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• Sep 10, 2016

• #7

I'm an ambipiper!

 

prndl

Lifer

Apr 30, 2014

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• Sep 10, 2016

• #8

Being ambidextrous, I use both.
I guess that not only makes me a two-fisted drinker but, a two-fisted smoker, as well.

 

jpmcwjr

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May 12, 2015

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• Sep 10, 2016

• #9

I hold in in left hand while lighting. Otherwise, either hand, but probably mostly the right, as I am that handed. Clenching will be either side of the mouth.
Mysteries abound!

 

sablebrush52

The Bard Of Barlings

Jun 15, 2013

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Southern Oregon

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• Sep 10, 2016

• #10

I light with my pipe in my right hand and smoke with my left. Except when I don't. But mostly, I do. This is the same topic as one of my first threads here!

 

jndyer

Lifer

Jul 1, 2012

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• Sep 10, 2016

• #11

I started to say that I am right handed and that I hold my pipe with my dominant hand, and then I thought about it and realized no, I use my left hand. I also clench on my left side. Oh the uniqueness of being human.

 

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kanse

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Jul 9, 2016

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• Sep 10, 2016

• #12

Holding a pipe is not a taxing procedure, it only makes sense to hold it in your left hand and using the dominant hand for something more demanding( )

 

dottiewarden

Lifer

Mar 25, 2014

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Toronto

• Sep 10, 2016

• #13

I am right handed but I smoke with my pipe in my left hand.

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Now that you mention it, I too tend toward holding the pipe in my left hand. Interestingly, I'm sure there is no practical reason as I usually just walk or sit relaxed while smoking.

 

oldreddog

Part of the Furniture Now

Sep 4, 2014

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• Sep 10, 2016

• #14

I'm left handed but clench to the right. I blame the nuns.

 

Chasing Embers

Captain of the Black Frigate

Nov 12, 2014

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• Sep 10, 2016

• #15

Ambidextrous, but always lefty with the pipe.

 

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jabo

Can't Leave

Jan 26, 2016

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• Sep 10, 2016

• #16

I'm left handed (normally,but who says I'm normal). I usually hold my pipe in my right so I can light and tamp with the left. Man,you're really going to mess up some minds here ! A prime example : Ask any good bird hunter, does he shoot with both eyes open or not and if he sights using the beads on the barrel. Then watch him. He probably won't hit another bird that day. It works and is hilarious as he-- to watch cause it usually works 90 percent of the time till they catch on. Anyway, nice try. ;-)

 

codecreatively

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Sep 17, 2014

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• Sep 10, 2016

• #17

I'm also right handed and hold my pipe in my left, because I'm usually working on my laptop while smoking in the garage after work. Unless I'm on my phone, then I hold my pipe in my right, because my left hand is my phone hand. The pipe just moves to the less important hand at any given moment.

 

tinsel

Part of the Furniture Now

Oct 23, 2015

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• Sep 10, 2016

• #18

Right handed ... Clench on the left side and when I hold my pipe it's with my left hand 90% of the time.

 

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aldecaker

Lifer

Feb 13, 2015

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• Sep 10, 2016

• #19

I am right-handed. For pipes I have both holders and clenchers; I hold in my left hand and clench on the left side at least 90% of the time. My stupid hand is no good for manipulating matches, tamping, or stuffing ribbon cuts, so I suppose that is why.

 

swhipple

Starting to Get Obsessed

Nov 2, 2011

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• Sep 10, 2016

• #20

I guess I'm a bit unusual, I'm right handed and when I hold my pipe it tends to be in my right hand. I do use my left hand to hold it at times to so I guess I ambi-pipe-trous ??? :D