There is a right way and a wrong way to do things.  Often, the right way is the way you do it, and the wrong way is another method someone else does that you never considered.  Your way comes naturally.

Earlier this month I talked about ways to clap.  Today’s debate is about opening soda cans.

This discussion began with my younger brother and I noticing that my mom (and we later learned her sister too) open cans in a way we consider backwards.  That is, we pull the tab toward us with a finger, while they turn the can around and lift the tab away from them with a thumb.

Our way, their way:

Time for you to vote.

How do you open a soda can?

Toward/finger:

Away/thumb: