In Sherlock Holmes fiction, we see that Holmes is capable of making correct inferences using insufficient information and long, tenuous chains of reasoning. I'm curious what would happen if we tried to apply this in real life. Here's a riddle containing insufficient information to come to the right answer with any certainty; will our Holmesian reasoning attempts be anything close to the "correct" answer, or will it be totally off?

The other day, I was listening to music from a movie on my headphones. In the movie, one scene depicts one of the characters getting out of bed. He puts one foot on the ground, then the other. The headphones were broken on one side. Which side?

Use your meta-riddle awareness: this isn't just a random event, but the sort of event that I would make into a riddle.

Here's the answer I had in mind, rot13'd.