Was a bachelor for 3 years on my own, and counted my blessings every time I opened a loaf of bread. Then got married. To a left-handed woman.
But maybe that's my right privilege talking.
I'd bet lefties spin tops counterclockwise, too, by and large. Seems to me it comes down to external rotation of the wrist being easier than internal.
This phrase always irked me, because when you're rotating something, it's not moving either left or right. The top of it moves right, the bottom moves left. Is it tightening or loosening?
Further, the only time a phrase might be needed to work out which way to tighten something is when it's unusually-positioned, for example upside down or facing away from you, and in those cases "righty tighty, lefty loosey" gives exactly the wrong answer (to the extent that it gives an answer at all, since "clockwise" and "right" are not the same thing).
I prefer the phrase "clockwise moves the thing you're turning away from you, anti-clockwise moves it towards you", which I'm hoping will catch on.
I remember an old mechanic sarcastically saying this when I was a kid and as as he worked on an old car that had wheel nuts that did up the other way on one side of the car.
It really pissed him off.
A quick search seems to show that this was a thing. https://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-old-Chrysler-cars-have-lug...
> Improvements in metallurgy, changes in brake design, first to finned drums and then to disks, and changes in wheel nut architecture, from flat washer to conical design have effectively reduced the problem.
The other is, follow the fingers not thumb.
I have no idea why steering wheels work that way. If I had to guess it would because most steering wheels are below eye level so it makes sense that you move the top of the wheel in the direction you want to go.
Note that if you are holding the top half of a steering wheel that follows this convention, then when you turn the vehicle the centriwhatever force on you will tend to oppose the force you are using to turn the wheel. If the steering while used the opposite convention, that force would reinforce your force. That positive feedback would make it a lot easier to lose control during the turn.
And the answer is "You look at the top, of course, why would it mean the bottom?"
As a bachelor I virtually make all my own bread so I don't really notice, but I think I do take time to figure out which way to twist before opening so maybe that is a thing.
This is just to say, the things you never think about, and I enjoyed the irony of your situation from the reverse side.
I so wish that the status of bachelor automatically bestowed the gift of being a baker. Sadly, in my case, it has not done so. I've tried to make all kinds of breads, from flatbreads to sourdoughs to leavened and unleavened to soda breads - all sorts. I would wish consumption of my output on only my worst enemies.
Happily, though, I can buy packets of bread mix in the supermarket and put them in a bread-making machine.
I now for better or worse have the Toll House cookie recipe memorized, but I'm terrible at making baked goods look appealing.
That way I also have an excuse to not eat the last slice.
Come to think of it, I haven't kept bread around for at least a year.