what may or may not be hard reality

I've done sort of the same thing. My father broke his right wrist a few years back, and it took him a week of attempting to use his left hand before he could scratch something resembling numbers on his sudokos, and then I fractured something in my right pinky, which thankfully didn't prevent me from writing, but I've been writing with my left hand when I'm not in a hurry so that I at least know I can do it, even if it's not pretty, should something more serious happen.

I notice handedness in pretty ladies, because I notice everything about pretty ladies. :) In CC's case I knew it in that body painting scene in BtC because they're painting with different hands (and N&N is easy, since they wear their guns on different hips). But if there is a pretty lady present, like on Remington Steele I knew from the first episode that Laura was left-handed, but that Murphy also was it? Like 15 episodes later. Same with F/X: The series, I barely noticed Rollie until a scene at the end of the first season where he and Christina are standing side by side and using the same hand to write.