Today’s “Question of the Day” is short and sweet, but it is a kind of odd one! Which ear do you hold your phone to? I’ve discovered that the phone has to be on my left side. I think it has something to do with being right-handed. It doesn’t matter if it’s the cordless phone in the house or my cell phone, but I always put it on my left ear. If I try to hold the phone to my right ear, it just doesn’t feel right, doesn’t fit somehow. Tim has a Bluetooth earpiece that he wears, and I’ve noticed that it is always on his left ear. So, I’m wondering if everyone is like that, or maybe it’s just if you are right-handed, you always use your left ear?
Leave me a comment and let me know – do you always put the phone to your left ear, your right ear, or do you have any idea?! 🙂 Have a great day!
You come up with the strangest questions! Love them!
I always use(?) my left ear. I’ve lost quite a bit of hearing in my right ear – probably from having the kids yelling in the back seat of the car and the noise coming up to my right ear as I’m driving. So if I want to hear any of the phone conversation, I have to use my left ear.
Left, almost always! Like you I try to use my right once in a while but it doesn’t always feel right but sometimes I have to depending on if I’m trying to juggle something at the same time with my other hand.
You do come up with odd questions!
My work phone and blue-tooth to my right ear. My cell phone is always to my left. Thinking about it makes it even more strange now… Great question!
This is a great question! I think mostly I use my right ear. Which is weird, because I’m right-handed. I think it’s just more comfortable for me with my right ear. Even the earpiece I put in to use my cell phone hands-free while driving I put on my right ear. Interesting!
Just a couple of weeks ago I had this same conversation with my mom. I have to have it on my left ear…and I’m left handed, too! If I try to use my right ear, I have to think too hard to listen. It’s almost as if I have worse hearing in that ear, but I know it’s just from habit. Funny things! I hope you had a great weekend.!
My right ear. I’m right handed, so everything seems to go that way. I suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome, and my left hand seem to go numb much more quickly than the right one, ironically enough.
Now that’s an interesting question!! I’m right handed and always have the phone on my left ear. Don’t laugh but I couldn’t remember. I had to get up, get the phone and pretend to be using it, LOL. Left ear it is!
It doesn’t matter to me. I am right handed, so if I have to write, it obviously goes to the left ear, but other than that, it really doesn’t matter. On a related note, I’m trying to make my time on the phone go DOWN!!
I hold mine to my left ear as well. It frees my right hand!
The right ear. 🙂
I have to hold my phone to my right ear. I’m right handed but I think my hearing is better in my right ear…..
I definitely prefer the left side. If I’m on a marathon phone call, I’ll switch back and forth periodically because my neck/ear gets tired, but if it’s a short call, then it’s my left side.
I think it usually goes to my right ear, but I have no problem switching. No preference. 🙂
What an interesting question! I’d never thought about it, but I do only put the phone to one particular ear… the left one. And I am right-handed. I’m not sure why I only use that ear when talking on the phone, except that it feels more comfortable.
Probably has no connection to that, but I also only sleep on my left side, never ever on my right. 😉
This is a very unique question! I know that I vary which ear I use. Some times during a call because my neck gets tired. But I am also ambidextrous, so maybe that is why! Who knows!
Right handed and left eared here, too. Have to so I can doodle!
Definitely right until my ear love gets warm and then I have to switch
Hey Stace! I hope your week is fab so far!
I hold the phone to my right ear, and I am a lefty. Very interesting question. Which makes me think of something very unusual that I saw both kids doing the other day. They were both brushing their teeth using their left hand, and they are mostly right handed that I know of. It was just something that I noticed and found it to be unusual.
Right. Even my bluetooth goes on the right. I switch if it is a long call or better yet put it on speaker phone (which anyone loves 🙂 but, I favor the right. I wouldn’t know that so much but today when my bluetooth wouldn’t connect I tried to use the same ear as the bluetooth to talk on my phone and it didn’t work. good question. the things that make you go hmmmm…
I’m right handed, and usually I hold the phone to my right ear. But if I want to write while on the phone, it’s obvious that I have to hold it to my left ear. LOL.
I’m a leftie, but I use my left ear. I just switch if, for some reason, I have to write. Or if I have been talking to my sister so long that my left hand falls asleep. Oh, and I’m so glad that I’m not the only one out there with sleep issues–I sometimes feel like I am–especially in my hotel room when my whole family is snoozing away as soon as their heads hit the pillow—I could scream–I’m so jealous.
Right. Habit. My phone at work is on the right side of my desk. Except for those times when I have to hold it inches away from me so I can let out a bit of exasperation, I generally hold my phone on the right, even my cell.
Interesting QOTD as usual, enjoyed reading some of the others.
I used to be “right-eared” because that was the only ear I could hear out of. Now that I can’t hear out of that ear anymore, I am hoping that my cochlear implant will give me enough hearing that I will someday be able to talk on the phone with my left ear! 🙂
Because I could only talk on the one side, ever, it always used to make me mildly uneasy to see someone talking on their left side…and my mother would occasionally be talking on the right side, and switch in mid-conversation….for some reason, that would always totally freak me out…I think because it was such a foreign concept for me!!! 🙂
Great question! 🙂
Stacy, you crack me up! I LOVE the questions you come up with!
I’m a righty and I’m a left-eared phone person! It must be the way it is …. opposite.
Interesting question. Let me pause and think….
I think I’m more of a right ear user when talking to someone on the phone. During long conversations, I sometimes put the phone on my left ear.
I hold it to my left ear. It feels strange on my right!
Left ear, but I see my husband doing both.
I hold the phone between my right ear and my shoulder. For some reason, my neck has a harder time leaning toward the left.
I’m right-eared! LOL!
i’m right-handed, and i hold the phone to my right ear too. (i’d never thought about it much!)
Good question! I always “talk” with my right ear! I just cannot be comfortable with the phone to my left ear. I even wear the earpiece to my cell phone in the right ear. The odd thing is that I AM right handed….but, I also wear my watch on the right arm (like most lefties). I had an anatomy professor do this little quiz with our class in college that determines which hand should be dominant. Apparently I was supposed to be left handed. I guess that’s why my watch is totally uncomfortable on the left arm, and why I “talk” with my right ear. My mother said she cannot recall pressing me to be right-handed, but I’ve always been curious.
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