This
is one of those annoying first-world problems you’re probably too
embarrassed to talk about. You pull your earbuds out of your pocket or
your bag and plug them into your phone. How do you know which bud should
go in your right ear, and which is for the left?
Here’s a stupidly easy fix. It’s been kicking around the Internet for awhile, but it’s fantastic:
Tie a little knot in your left earbud cord.
From
now on, every time you put them on, you don’t have to fire up an
electron microscope to hunt for the tiny “L” and “R” designations to
figure out which ear gets which bud.
You know by looking—or even by touching.
