If you were walking down a road and you reached a crossroad would you turn left or right?

[thegreenyogi]

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Without any destination in mind, I think I'd lean left in Japan. We tend to lean left in general (ex: favoring the left side of a street or road) starting from ancient history.

I've heard it's because samurai wore their swords on the left side of their waist. By favoring the left side of a narrow road, two samurai walking across each other don't risk bumping swords and getting their sheathes tangled up. We're also ready to unsheathe our sword with our right hand and attack an enemy to our right.

So just favoring the left always made sense to me, maybe for this reason. I'm trained to favor the left side by default.

[thegreenyogi]

In the UK people drive on the left side and I am left handed so that's me too!! It's fascinating to hear how in Japan that's how it is too!! Thank you for sharing as always!!

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Nice and cheers! I'm right-handed but maybe ambidextrous? I'm not sure if ambidextrous is the right word. I'm definitely more coordinated with precision tasks with my right hand like writing, drawing, and using chopsticks.

Yet what tends to confuse people and ask me like, "Wait, are you left-handed?" (even my own parents originally) is that for less precise tasks, I tend to use whatever hand is closest to me. Like if both my hands are free and you throw a ball to me, I'll catch it with whichever hand is closer. Also for forks and spoons which don't require as much precision as chopsticks, I'll sometimes eat with left hand, sometimes right.

It's a peculiarity of mine. Also tried a bunch of tests for brain hemisphere dominance and I always get 49/51, 50/50, or 51/49, and if the tests have any merit, apparently I excel in divergent thinking and random processing but have difficult with convergent thinking and sequential processing. That makes sense to me.

[Lynx122]

It would depend, how I'm feeling in the moment :)

[Lynx122]

Screw it I'm going right :)

[petitedollbabee]

Left. I always keep to my left when walking anywhere, so it only seems natural for me to take the left path at a crossroads.

[Lynx122]

I read that people in general are more likely to turn left than right.

[strateguy632]

sometimes left. "if it doesn't matter where you want to go, it doesn't matter which way you go" cheshire cat.

[Dargil]

No pattern. Completely arbitrary. Depends on terrain. As Yogi Berra said: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it!"

[exitseven]

Yogi Berra said that when you reach a fork in the road, take it.

I really don;t know which way I would go.

[NathanDavis]

when in doubt... go left

[blackgaletiger]

I turn right. Right is the right way to go

[jahaims]

That would depend on where I am trying to go

[dinojames22]

Depends... which way is dinner

[eagle1951]

left