Please settle a domestic query for us?

Using your mobile for voice calls and held to your ear, do you swap the phone from one side to the other?

One of us noticed the other do just that and thought it was weird.

So, who’s the weirdo? The one who swaps sides or the one who only every uses one ear (always the same one). Neither of us suffer any heating loss or damage.

One ear only for me. That and speakerphone

Right ear only for me. It feels odd using my left ear!

You have a dominant ear in the same way as you have a dominant  hand. Can lead to that classic movie trope where there’s a phone call comes in with vital information and the hack / detective or whoever did they that odd ‘wait I’ve gotta write this down’ and contorts to hold the phone to their right ear with their left hand as they write

so switching from ear to ear might be a dominant hand / ear conflict

You make voice calls? On your phone? Weirdo.

In through one ear and out through the other is my general rule.

Ymmv

I’m right handed so I normally pick up the phone with my right hand and put it to my right ear. If I have to write down stuff while I’m talking, I shift the phone to my left hand and left ear.

Neither, I’m down wiv da kidz – facetime all the way baby!

Right ear. Luckily I’m left handed for writing.

If I’m not in public I’ll have it on speaker phone though.  People who have it on speaker phone in public are weird.

Whatever your wife said.

Never put a phone to my ear, either video call or speaker phone

Left handed, left ear.

25 years of mobile phone ownership and it never occurred to me to change ears when writing something down rather than wedge it between my face and shoulder.  What a silly bunt.

Right handed but phone in left hand to left ear.

Same as thols, right hand and ear if both hands are free, but I’m right handed so swap to left hand and ear if I need to do something at the same time

I don’t care which ear I use. But sometimes swap if my arm starts aching or ear is sweaty. Usually if I’m on the phone to my mum, Christ she can talk!

Oh and obviously when I need to change gear in the car!!

I’m **** joking!!

speaker phone 99% of the time, if not right handed – right ear

Never put a phone to my ear, either video call or speaker phone

Oh was that you on my train? We all enjoyed your call.

Oh and obviously when I need to change gear in the car!!

I’m **** joking!!

He is – he drives an automatic

I pretend I’m a contestant on The Apprentice by putting it on speakerphone and hold the phone horizontally near my mouth, speaking into the charge port, as if I’m charging the phone with my cocky self-assured bullshit.

I swap sides when my ear gets warm