Weekly Short-Short Note | Left-Right Research

"It's on the right side of the top, so go get it."
I headed to the warehouse and brought back a cardboard box that seemed to be the one.
"Huh? Wasn't this on the left?
Geez. Can't you even tell left from right?"
Akemi said.
I was irritated.
I thought that since she didn't say "from your perspective" right, it was her fault for being wrong, and she should reflect on her own inadequate instructions.
Well, it couldn't be helped.
I drew a three-by-three, nine-section grid on a piece of paper, like a baseball strike zone, and added numbers one through nine.
With this, I would immediately ask when receiving instructions, "Which number is that on this chart?"

"It's on the left of the middle. Got it? Left, okay?"
Here it comes.
"Which number is that on this chart?"
"Chart? What's this? Left is the hand you hold the rice bowl with! Right is the hand you hold the chopsticks with! Forget the chart and just learn your left and right."

I was even more confused.
I am left-handed.
Out of a sense of relief, I missed whether she said "from your perspective" or not.
Did she say left of the middle?
Does that mean the middle row?
Or perhaps it's slightly to the left of the center.
In the first place, isn't she going to tell me what kind of box it is?

While still feeling unconvinced, I went to the warehouse and found a book titled "Left-Right Research."
I ended up getting lost in reading it until evening.

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