EASY WAY TO REMEMBER HOW TO USE YOUR SCREWDRIVER
[a screwdriver is unscrewing a screw by turning counter-clockwise]
The LEFT liberates the screw from its oppression
[a screwdriver is screwing a screw by turning clockwise]
The RIGHT tightens the screw’s place in the social order imposed to it
Idk i never understood left or right for turning a screwdriver, like depends which way you are facing it goes left or right so it never helps me.
When you are asked to turn left or right, you instinctively know where to turn your body. Now, imagine you are looking at it from above, seeing yourself from the top. When you turn left or right, your head and the rest of your body turn in a specific direction, which should be easy to visualize. That’s the same movement in which you’d turn a valve / turn a steering wheel / rotate a screwdriver when asked to turn it left or right.
And what if im looking at from below now it’s the opposite, i dont have a problem knowing how to turn a screwdriver, i have a problem with understanding people saying left or right, because the top half turns one way and the other half of the rotation the opposite. Like when you turn right in a car the bottom of the steering wheel goes left, so idk you guys keep talking about it and ill just keep turning it the way i need to turn it without ever using the words left or right lol
Then it doesn’t work for you, which is fine.
Everyone has their own way of visualizing things.
Left/right is deeply ingrained in a lot of people for steering and screwing. Makes “natural” sense to me so I use it.
I’m rarely tasked with screwing a screw into my eye, so it typically points away from me. And then it’s just associating clockwise rotation with ‘right’.
Pretty common for me to screw the back of something facing me and I have to reach around and use the screwdriver on the back of the desk or something. Idk left or right just doesn’t enter my mind at all when I use a screwdriver but people call me autistic so i guess im the weird one.