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From: grunwald@uiuccsb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Do people walk to the left in En - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 9-Dec-83 04:31:29 EST
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uiuccsb!grunwald    Dec  9 00:48:00 1983

Re: left handed eating

	I think that most people use their knives in their right hands to push
the food around and to apply enough force to cut. Poking food into your mouth
takes little aiming, and hence can be delegated to the left hand.

Re: C&NW left-handed train in ChiCity:

	Well, I talked to a railroader friend of mine, and he said that the
reason they're left handed on that line in Chicago is not because the company
was English. The in-going line was built first, and for a few years, there
was only one line. They built terminals near the towns the train ran to
(on the "left"). When they installed the second line and split the traffic,
they had to build new waiting areas (on the "right" side). There was only
enough room for dinky ones and they were "to the right" of the old track since
that was the only place to put them (the towns having expanded, but not over
the tracks.
	They reasoned that people would rather wait in the nice ones for the
train, but that anyone getting off the train would just leave, and did not
need a nice terminal. Hence, they kept the in-going trains on the left.
	Sorry to blow the theory.