For the people who have coins in the left front, keys in the right; I think it’s because most of you must be right-handed. To count change, you take it out of your left pocket with your left hand, count it with your right hand, right? Keys come right out of your right pocket and (if righthanded) you use it in your right hand right?
Do left handed men put their wallets in the left rear pocket?
Richard M, sometimes I think I must be losing my mind too. I’ve always had many irrational fears, but when I first got to Taiwan, they seemed overwhelming.
Crossing the street at a busy intersection; riding the MRT over the Keelung River, or the 220 over the bridge. What if the bridge broke? What if there was an earthquake in the 10 seconds it takes to get over the river; what would happen to the train and vehicles on the bridge? I’d keep my eye on the emergency exit and think about what it would take to open it while keeping an arm around my child, getting out, getting him out. When I was pregnant, then I’d worry about how a pregnant person could get out of the emergency exit.
I’d worry about getting stuck underground in the MRT and then remind myself to always have a bottle of water and crackers in my bag.
I’m not sure when I’ll ever get to visit the supermarket at 101 because what if the day I go there, we have an earthquake and the building collapses?
And that’s just a few of the things I worry about…