shaking hands with your left or right hand.

[want my Slimjim]

which hand do you often use to shake your hand with? I heard shaking with left hand could be disrespectful don't know why. but I always shake with my right hand.

Do you feel offended if someone trys to shake their hand with their left hand?

[Blueobelisk]

You couldn't ask this in the other thread?

It's a right hand dominated population.

[cdmcg]

Your left hand is your dirty hand. By that if refers to the days of no toilet paper.....

[Orange Joe]

You couldn't ask this in the other thread?

It's a right hand dominated population.

Screw you right handers. I'll shake with my left whether you like it or not!

[Deleted]

Right hand ofcourse! Isn't that like one of those unwritten rules that everyone should know by default?!

[Krolikn]

Hand shaking means nothing to me so I just go along with whichever hand the other person chooses.

[Collegeguy]

Speaking as a lefty, shaking with the left hand has nothing to do with being left handed.

That's like choosing to hit the gas pedal in your car with your left foot.

[Feral Camel]

I'm left handed and always shake hands with my right.

[Melchior]

Most people are right handed, thus shake with their right hands.

Even if someone were left handed, if they saw a right hand outstretched already, they would likely shake with the right hand to reciprocate.

Speaking as a lefty, shaking with the left hand has nothing to do with being left handed.

That's like choosing to hit the gas pedal in your car with your left foot.

I think it's more likely that you end up shaking with the right because it's more convenient to most others, or they already initiated. I find it very unlikely that it has nothing to do with right-hand dominance.

[Deleted]

Your left hand is your dirty hand. By that if refers to the days of no toilet paper.....

Thats just Nonsense Btw

[Bonkura]

Speaking as a lefty, shaking with the left hand has nothing to do with being left handed.

That's like choosing to hit the gas pedal in your car with your left foot.

100% agree. Wanting to shake with left hand just because you're a leftie will just make you seem weird.

[Sylar Hao]

Lefty here. I naturally tend to offer my left hand but almost always correct myself and end up using my right one when it comes to shaking hands.

It's funny because I have a friend who's lefty as well and he behave the same as me, and when we greet, we both offer the left-hand, and correct in the process and end up shaking our right hands XD. As you say, it's a deep commonly spread unwritten rule.

[lockedout]

Shaking hands was usually done with both hands right hand with your left over it, to show you were unarmed.

[apepi]

Does it really matter? If you iniate a left hand shake do you think someone is going to get mad over it?

[KCguy]

As a lefty, i always shake with my right, mainly because I just assume most people are right handed. Hasn't failed me so far.

[Nicola]

Despite being left handed, I use my right hand unless the other person initiates the hand shake with their left hand.

[Deleted]

Right hand.

I'm left-handed. Assuming someone will telepathically know you're a leftie and going in with your left just makes for an awkward moment.

[vindicatorx]

It's rude to many cultures to offer your left hand for a handshake.

[grandpab]

Lol, yeah usually the left is offered when the right is unable to shake. Probably has more to do with about 90% of the population being right handed than anything else.

The left hand is for wiping your ass, so you shake with your right because it's cleaner.

[salty goat]

Left hand is the wiping hand from days old (or from present day if you still poop in a hole)

Right hand ftw

Left hand stinky