左利きに対する配慮
Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello.
Hello.
So, this is from Mu-san.
Okay.
ケビンさん、ヤマチャンさん、こんにちは。
こんにちは。
いつも楽しく、ちょっと頑張りながらお二人の英会話を聞いています。
Thank you.
KRの動画や配信を見ていて気になったことがあります。
それは左利きであるケビンさんが左側にいるケースが少ないということです。
左利きの人は隣の人と肘がぶつかって不便といったエピソードを聞いたことがあり、
以降、私は左利きの人に気づいたときには自然と左端の席などをお勧めがちです。
KRの中ではそのような流れがないので、ケビンさんがとても寛容なのか、あるいは自分が気にしすぎなのか、ふと気になってしまいました。
もしよければ左利きであること、あるいはそれを周囲に配慮されることに関してどう感じるか教えてもらえますか?
これからも楽しみにしています。
体験を語る
Thank you. Let me sit here.
This person always, always.
And there's the other people who never care if I'm a lefty or not.
I have an image that the people who care about other people being a lefty care so much.
Are you happy with that?
Being a lefty?
I mean being cared.
Oh, being like, hey, sit here.
Because you're a lefty.
I don't really have any like problem with it.
No, no, I have zero problem.
Okay.
Am I happy then?
No.
Either one is fine.
Yeah, I don't, that never, I never really, it never bothered me that I'm sitting on the right side of a righty.
Yeah.
So that never, yeah, it never occurred to me.
You don't care that.
Yeah.
Do you feel sometimes uncomfortable?
No.
You never feel that?
Yeah, so the thing is, whenever someone tells me that, oh, you should sit here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
My experience of dining never changes.
I never felt.
Even you sit right side of, for example, me.
Yeah.
It's the same.
I've never had any like, any like weirdness or awkwardness.
Touches your knees and elbows or like.
Yeah, like every once in a while that might happen.
Yeah.
Coincidentally.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Us two might go for the ketchup at the same time and our elbows kind of like bump into each other.
Yeah.
But like, that's, that's it.
That's it.
Similar thing happens to a righty, I'm sure.
Of course, yeah.
Like, you know, someone might grab for the same thing and be like, boom.
Oh, I'm sorry.
That's just in, that just, it's the same thing.
But because I'm a lefty, a lot of people assume that that happens because I'm a lefty.
Yeah.
No, it happened because it happened.
Just like you guys.
Same probability, I'm assuming.
Okay.
It's what I feel.
Yeah.
So, it's what I feel.
Maybe like statistically, maybe I'm doing it more than you guys, but I don't know.
Yeah.
To me, it doesn't bother me at all.
Okay.
Yeah.
So, you're lefty, right?
Yes.
Which one do you, which, which act you use left hand?
Like, everything or like, you know, there are people like when they ride.
Yeah.
I think when I kick.
When you kick, okay.
I think I'm a, I don't know, righty.
Oh, you're right.
I kick with my right leg.
That's a righty.
Yeah.
Yes.
I kick with my right leg.
So, for the legs, you're right.
Yeah.
Okay.
What about hands?
Hands, I'm mostly left.
Left.
Yeah.
I think when I bat.
Sorry?
Baseball.
Okay, bat.
When I swing the baseball bat, I think I'm doing what a righty does.
Okay.
Show me.
Oh, yeah, that's righty.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
左利きとスポーツの関係
Okay.
So, that's the two situations where I would be a righty.
Oh.
Yeah.
What about tennis?
You do the left.
I do this, yeah.
Oh.
So, it's weird.
Okay.
Yeah.
Oh, that's why.
It's strange.
Strange, right?
Strange.
To me, tennis and batting is kind of the same.
Oh, yeah.
I know.
It's weird.
Okay.
What about pitching?
Pitching, I pitch with my left hand.
Left.
Okay.
Okay.
So, one of the most weak points of a player is when the backhand struck, right?
Okay.
They're really strong at the forehand, and they're not used to the backhand.
Right, right, right.
Because they have to, you know, they're in a completely different form.
But, like, for me, my baseball swing is very similar.
I'm used to the right-hand side of the swing.
So, it's like, I'm okay with a forehand swing, and I'm pretty good with a backhand swing.
So, my strength was the backhand strike.
I'm pretty accurate with the backhand.
That was kind of my strength.
So, that was the advantage when you played tennis.
That's right.
Yeah.
Okay.
食事と座り方の気遣い
When you eat things, you use your left hand?
Fork on the left, knife on the right.
Oh, yeah.
Sorry.
Yes.
Sorry.
Yeah, that's it.
That's it.
Fork on the left, right.
Yeah.
That's right.
Yeah.
Spoon on the right.
Sorry.
That's left.
Spoon on the left.
Spoon on the left.
Yeah.
Oh.
Hashi.
What about hashi?
Hashi, left.
So, you...
Lefty.
Yeah.
Again.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's right.
I see.
I see.
That's right.
Okay.
Have you had...
Okay, so, I want to know, on your end, from the righty's end, had any, like, oh, I'm sitting
next to a lefty.
Felt any difference sitting next to a lefty and a righty?
I have some.
Yes.
Oh, like what?
Like what?
In the restaurants or in...
But not, like, for example, like, it's, like, crowded restaurants.
Oh, okay.
It's cramped.
So, you know, like, exactly, I have to fit in, like, a little table.
Like, six people at a really small table.
Oh, yeah.
Things like that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Or, like...
That's when you feel it.
Even, like, in a full table.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
You feel it bump into you?
Yeah, because I'm too used to sitting next to the righty.
Okay.
Because it's...
I guess it's really rare for us to have lefty on your right side.
Because, first of all, lefty is rare.
Okay.
And then you got two possibility.
So, it's really, really, really rare that you have lefty on your right side.
Okay.
So, I guess almost every time I got lefty on my right side, I feel different.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
So, maybe...
But, like, when do you feel that?
Like...
Every time.
When I sit...
Like, when we're not in contact.
No.
You don't feel anything, right?
I mean, I feel that.
But it's, like...
Oh, it's...
I mean, like, it's closer.
What do you mean?
For example, like, they eat, like, donburis.
左利きとの距離感
You do this if you use that left hand, right?
Yeah, right, right, right.
And I kind of feel the kind of pressure.
Like, it's...
Oh, wait, wait.
It's closer than that.
Oh!
Okay.
Closer than usual.
I see.
According to the layout of the chair...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
My mind perceives it as, a person should be this far away.
But if a lefty comes next to you...
Yeah, yeah.
It's like, it's kind of like...
Closer than...
Oh, wait, wait.
It's closer than what I'm perceiving in my mind.
Oh, I see.
So...
True.
But that doesn't mean that touches or, like, you know...
Nothing happens, actually.
But...
Oh, right.
He said...
Yeah, okay.
There's that weirdness.
Yeah.
There's that awkward moment in you.
Yeah, like...
Wait, what's happening?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, like, especially on, like, a counter on the ramen shops.
Yeah.
You know, like...
Lefty is next to you.
I mean, I'm okay.
I'm all right.
Nothing happens.
But it's just...
Kind of getting closer to your personal space.
Yeah.
Closer than I expected.
Oh.
Yeah.
So, I'm assuming, then, if a righty comes next to your left-hand side, like how we are
right now, it feels further away than how you're expecting it.
True, true.
Is that true?
But in that way, I don't feel...
I mean...
I don't feel nothing.
Because it's...
Oh, because it's further away.
Yeah, yeah.
It matters if it goes in your personal bubble or not.
Yeah, I guess so.
I guess so.
Oh, I guess so.
Oh, okay.
That's a new...
New haken to me.
New discovery, huh?
Yeah.
Okay.
I never...
Yeah.
I don't have any of that.
Yeah.
So, I've never felt any of that, so...
Right, right, right, right, right.
Because it's very rare for people like righty having lefty on my right side.
Okay.
Because you're...
You're the rare lefty, right?
Yeah.
You're not...
You're used to, like, being surrounded by righties.
So, I should experience sitting next to a lefty, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's see how I feel.
Right, right, right, right.
It's true.
Oh, yeah.
Wow.
That's true.
Oh.
Interesting.
Yeah.
But I mean...
No problem at all.
No problem.
I've never felt, like, uncomfortable.
Uh-huh, uh-huh.
Yeah.
Right, right.
But you feel the difference.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I do.
It's true.
Interesting.
Okay.
Bye-bye.
