The mystery of the left-handed work gloves
Since I have three teenage sons, I’ve found over the years that we can keep track of work gloves better if they all get thrown into the same drawer in the garage after work projects. But I’ve noticed that left-handed gloves in the drawer have always outnumbered right-handed ones, and I’ve often wondered why.
Today, while tending my first wood stove fire of the season, I burned the tip of the middle finger on my right hand while opening the wood stove door because there was a hole in the glove I used to operate the stove’s door handle. I threw the glove away, went to the garage drawer to get another, and found only six gloves there, all left-handed. It suddenly occurred to me where all the right-handed gloves had gone.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Dave,
I believe you will find the missing gloves with all the odd socks that are missing…
Eric
October 27th, 2009 at 9:56 am
I used to keep my leather work gloves handy on a low shelf near the back door. Grab them on the way out. One day the new dog decided they were the perfect chew toy. She’d grab them on the way out of the door, chew them a while then bury them in a shallow hole. I finally gave up, gave her the old pair and keep the new pair in the drawer.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Dave,
Maybe next time you burn through a finger you could replace it with one of the fingers from a left glove.
March 13th, 2010 at 10:25 am
Perhaps we can strike a deal.
I have 6 right handed work gloves and no left handed gloves!
Dave Sorensen
PS
As I think about this, it may just be this….We live in Madison, WI where every left-leaning anything tends to take off and run!