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To think that I sleep on the left hand side of the bed?

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EmmaGrundyForPM · 05/08/2021 08:31

Somehow this came up in conversation with dh, and I said that I sleep on the left hand side of the bed. He looked very puzzled and said that HE sleeps on the left hand side, I sleep on the right.

If you stand at the foot of our bed and look at it, I sleep on the left, dh sleeps on the right. Therefore I sleep on the left hand side.

DH's totally wrong argument is that, when we are lying in bed, I am on his right and therefore on the right hand side.

So, wise ones of MN, AIBU to think I sleeping the left hand side of the bed?

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EmmaGrundyForPM · 05/08/2021 10:41

@cocomarine it's not about knowing my left from my right, I've never had a problem with that! It's about perspective. As it happens, I lie/sleep in bed on my front so DH. is definitely on my right.

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PattyPan · 05/08/2021 10:49

I sleep on the same side as you and say it’s the left. Just asked DP and he thinks it’s the left too. Yanbu!

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EmmaGrundyForPM · 05/08/2021 10:55

@LyndaSnellsSniff (great username BTW Grin) your DH is definitely wrong about the sandwiches!

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WhatsWithAllTheCarrots · 05/08/2021 10:57

You totally sleep on the right :D

HeronLanyon · 05/08/2021 10:57

I spend more time out of bed than in it. I have also never asked myself this q when actually in bed. Only ever when out of a bed ie coming into a hotel room and putting things on bedside table or similar. So for me it is far more common to think of left/right as an observer (in my imagination also) than an occupant. So you are left I’m my view.
Similar to driving. I spend more time as a front seat passenger than driving so I’m likely to say right hand drive picturing driver to my own right rather than as the driver sitting on the right. Although having said this I would never say right hand drive is on the left of the car (as observer) but think this is because of the understood naming convention.
When someone ask me fir directions I picture myself driving along the road to get my left and right correct.
This is indicating to me that my labelling of left may be a real anomaly.
Interesting.

Wonmoretime · 05/08/2021 10:58

Are you left handed @EmmaGrundyForPM?
Asking because I agree with you, but I’m left handed so that’s my dominant side iyswim

KrisAkabusi · 05/08/2021 11:00

What about biology and medicine? That's always from your perspective, never from outside. So there's no mistake when a surgeon says he's going to remove the left kidney. ( I was going to say right kidney there but realised that could cause even more confusion!)

BabyHobnob · 05/08/2021 11:06

@LyndaSnellsSniff I normally only lurk here but I have to comment on the sandwiches one as it bugs me! But I totally agree with your husband.. if you take 1 sandwich and cut it in half, you still have 1 sandwich, it's just in two pieces, that's just fractions! If you took an orange and cut in in half you wouldn't magically now have two oranges! 😁

BabyHobnob · 05/08/2021 11:11

@LyndaSnellsSniff just to add, I would accept 'rounds' of a sandwich though! I don't say it, but I know a lot of people who do, that to me means bits of a sandwich..

LyndaSnellsSniff · 05/08/2021 11:12

@EmmaGrundyForPM I feel our mutual dippiness and love of The Archers means we would get on!

@BabyHobnob you are absolutely right about the orange, of course. I really want a sandwich now.

But I’m still unsure about the round of toast though…

Ulelia · 05/08/2021 11:17

@SquirrelFan wrong way round! All kidnappers/murderers/snakes come in the windows, not the door! Always put your husband/boyfriend/softtoys between you and the window s you can let it out the door in case of emergency... Wink

OP, I think you're right, but my husband is also now referring to bedleft and bedright to prove his point. Booo

BabyHobnob · 05/08/2021 11:18

@LyndaSnellsSniff I know! Is it lunchtime yet?! Ooh round of toast is tricky! I'd say a slice!

Babdoc · 05/08/2021 11:20

Krisakabusi, unfortunately there’s at least one case in the UK where a surgeon DID remove the wrong kidney. They put the x ray up back to front, and had written the wrong side on the operating list. 2004. It was his only functioning kidney.

burritofan · 05/08/2021 11:25

If the OP is lying starboard side of the bed painting her sofa using half a sandwich, how many kidneys does she have?

LyndaSnellsSniff · 05/08/2021 11:37

@burritofan

😄

Happy36 · 05/08/2021 11:38

DH is correct.

paintedpanda · 05/08/2021 11:42

[quote MrsJackRackham]@LyndaSnellsSniff no no no, if you offered me a sandwich and only brought one slice of bread folded over I'd be raging. That is know in Scotland as a half piece - half a sandwich. A sandwich is two slices of bread, supermarkets agree. You don't get two sandwiches in a box, you get one.[/quote]
This!!
When I first met DP, he asked me how many sandwiches I would like.
One sandwich please, DP.
He returns with a "one slice" sandwich. He was shocked when I exclaimed "what in fresh hell is this?!?"
"One sandwich = one slice of bread" says he.
Err, no no DP. One sandwich is 2 slices of bread. If you cut it in half, then you have two halves of a whole sandwich, not two individual sandwiches!!!

HeronLanyon · 05/08/2021 11:42

Currently lying on bed cooking from late bath. Feel like just plonking myself very central to stop my poor head overheating !

DappledThings · 05/08/2021 11:46

*I also don’t understand what “inside lane” means?I can't get my head round that one either. I think the inside lane is the furthest left on a motorway but logically to me it should be the furthest right because that's closest to the centre or inside of the whole road.

DappledThings · 05/08/2021 11:48

*I also don’t understand what “inside lane” means?I can't get my head round that one either. I think the inside lane is the furthest left on a motorway but logically to me it should be the furthest right because that's closest to the centre or inside of the whole road.

Bold fail. I meant:
I also don’t understand what “inside lane” means

I can't get my head round that one either. I think the inside lane is the furthest left on a motorway but logically to me it should be the furthest right because that's closest to the centre or inside of the whole road.

HeronLanyon · 05/08/2021 11:51

I’m a criminal lawyer and always always have to think carefully when a witness or statement says ‘offside’/‘near side’. It just has never made sense to me and I have to be careful before basing a question on the concept. Heaven forbid I have to use it when talking to a jury. If they could see what’s going on in my brain !

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EmmaGrundyForPM · 05/08/2021 11:54

If I am feeling verygreedy hungry I might buy a triple pack of sandwiches from a shop. ie Three sandwiches. The package definitely says Triple, not 1.5 sandwiches.

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DappledThings · 05/08/2021 12:00

@EmmaGrundyForPM

If I am feeling verygreedy hungry I might buy a triple pack of sandwiches from a shop. ie Three sandwiches. The package definitely says Triple, not 1.5 sandwiches.
True. But in Pret they will sell you a half sandwich which is one slice of bread folded in half.
ThanksIGotItInMorrisons · 05/08/2021 12:01

Depends where your standing when you talk about it......

BumbleMug · 05/08/2021 12:05

I’d answer this from the point of view that if two people were stood by a bed how would they decide?

If they said, “you take the left side and I’ll take the right” how would that be viewed?

Therefore I’m with you OP.