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A Surplus Of Left-Handed Work Gloves
I have an over-abundance of left-handed work gloves.
I noticed this recently while preparing to weed some flowerbeds. I grabbed what I thought was a set of gloves out of my garage, but quickly discovered that they were both lefties.
This is not an un-common occurrence for me. Since I am right-handed, holes always first appear on my right gloves. I tend to use them until the holes become too big, then I pitch the right glove leaving a left-handed glove in very good shape to sit on a shelf in my garage. I've collected a small pile of these solitary gloves.
In a pinch, I've been known to use a left-handed glove on my right hand. It's not very comfortable and I don't like to do it for long, but it's better than no glove at all if -- for instance -- you need to remove poison ivy from a flowerbed.
While the rule of "leaves of 3, let it be" may be accurate if you're hiking in the woods, when the poisonous plant shows up in my yard, I come out with guns-a-blazing, or more appropriately gloves-a-pulling.
I tend to buy gloves that I have found work well for the chosen task. Some types of gloves I just don't like. For instance, I really don't care for inexpensive and quite common brown jersey gloves. When I've used them, they leave my fingers covered in a blackish cotton fuzz. They also offer practically no protection against splinters. Besides that, they wear out fast.
I like to buy gloves that will last a while. I'm partial to leather that is not so stiff you can't move your fingers, but not so soft you could blow your nose in them. And obviously the amount of time a pair of gloves will last greatly depends on what I will be doing with them. If the gloves are for gripping the lawnmower or weeding flowerbeds, I feel they ought to last from spring to fall.
However, if I'm laying pavers or digging postholes by hand I realize that no matter how expensive the gloves are, their life expectancy will be significantly shorter.
Or at least my right glove will be. It never fails.
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