Scissors
I'm right handed (for most things...) but whenever I pick up scissors I always get them the wrong way up (not the pointy end, the handle bits...)

It took me until my twenties to work out that one handle was bigger than the other - how did I not notice that sooner? - but this was a result of always getting my thumb stuck in the narrower 'fingers' scissor handle and having to shake them off (I think I might have fat thumbs...).

Anyway, once realising that there is a proper way to pick up scissors so that your thumb does not get stuck, for some reason, I never ever remember this until I try to put them down again.

And by the laws of chance, you would expect this error to be a 50/50 occurrence, but I never (ever) fail to pick them up the wrong way round. I've tested it and noted it. For the past 20 years, I have *never* picked up scissors the correct way round.

Which means I must do it unconsciously. Work that one out Freud...
(the itch Forsooth! What fryeth fryar?, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 22:40, 2 replies)

My scissors have handles the same size.

( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Fri 16 Jul 2010, 16:41, closed)

But the small hole is for your thumb
You obviously do just have freakishly large thumbs. sorry.
(mmm....beer, Sun 18 Jul 2010, 23:21, closed)