Left-hand glove theory

On last week's The Danny Baker Show a man rang in with a story about going for a walk and finding a succession of lost gloves, all of them left-handed. This morning on my walk into work I saw three gloves, two left-handed and one unidentified (someone had thought it was amusing to throw it into a tree, so I couldn't see clearly). I have a theory about this.

As the temperature has got much warmer in recent weeks, people have been lulled into a false sense of chilliness. They have left the house with two gloves on but, as they have started walking they have warmed up, and eventually they have become too hot. So they decide to remove their gloves. Most people are right handed and I think that means you would remove your left glove first. No problem there, it is held firmly in your right hand. Then you have to switch that glove to your left hand while you take off your right glove. Now your left hand is your weaker hand, and the task of holding one glove while taking off another might prove difficult. You are more likely to hold the glove you are taking off securely, as that is the one you are paying attention to. The left glove, I think, falls to the ground in a couple of ways:

• during the right glove removal process, or, and I think more likely
• as you are stuffing both gloves into a pocket, the more loosely held glove (the left one) tumbles to the ground and is lost.

Either that or there's a one-armed fugitive out there, unnecessarily buying hundreds of pairs of gloves, and discarding the left one each time.