Everyday activities that are made difficult to impossible when your dominant hand is cocooned in duct tape:
* Putting on clothes
* Putting in contact lenses
* Eating any food that requires cutting
* Making a sandwich:




* Drawing
* Writing
* Locking a bicycle
* Tying shoelaces
* Playing the guitar:




(Admittedly, the guitar is untuned and I'm pretty terrible anyway. But not quite this terrible.)

* Tuning said guitar


Everyday activities that can be performed normally with your dominant hand cocooned in duct tape:

* Reading
* Watching movies
* Riding a bicycle (although hand signals may become confusing)
* Typing, assuming you are a freak like me who never learned to type "correctly" and just got really,
really fast at doing it with one or two fingers.
* Eating sandwiches
* Brushing teeth
* Sleeping


Advantages to using duct tape to disable your dominant hand:

It will stick all day and very effectively prevent any usage of the taped hand! It's inexpensive! It's easy! After just a few hours, you'll notice an improvement in the reflexes and dexterity of the non-taped hand! It'll make you grateful to have bilaterally symmetric limbs! (Two opposable thumbs!) It's a good conversation starter! ("Hey Pip, what the hell happened to your hand?")



Disadvantages to using duct tape to disable your dominant hand:

It will sweat like crazy and be all pruny and white and disgusting when you take the tape off. Also, if you bind it too tightly some of your circulation may be cut off and you'll have to bang the pin-and-needle-y hand against the edge of a table or something to regain feeling and movement and your mom will keep looking at it and asking you why you do such crazy things and shake her head and mutter "it's not right" and "are you ever going to start acting like an adult?"


Additional Notes:

The videos were taken by my sister. Thanks, sis.

I'm wearing a t-shirt that lists the Magical Powers of Hands. (Toothpaste squeezing, shoulder tapping, gesturing, ect.) It seemed appropriate to the task.