Comments on: Left-Handers Day

By: Kenn312

Kenn312 — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:44:18 +0000

LOL I`m left handed and my birthday is august 13 the same as left handers day

By: jorge

jorge — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:49:06 +0000

I would have to say that the worst thing about being left-handed is finding a good left-handed guitar, and if you do, you have to pay around $100 dollars more than you would for the right handed model of it >.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:18:13 +0000

I’m a proud Lefty as well.
I write, bat, throw, bowl, eat, play racket sports, brush my teeth, comb my hair (what little there is), shoot a basketball with my Left hand. I use my Right hand for the mouse (write and click at the same time), frisbee-throwing, and scissors (I agree with the previous post about the scissors in grade school). I can do most things with both, including shaving, a very tricky proposition.

As for the smudging. I am fortunate to have a Left-handed Aunt who is a teacher. She taught me how to write with my hand straight up and down (instead of a hook or pushing the pen). I still despise side spiral notebooks (I found top bound ones in college, bought 25 of them to make sure I didn’t run out) and the right-handed school desks. I used to get to lecture halls early to take up two desks.

By: Kritikritter

Kritikritter — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:47:05 +0000

Lefties unite!

I, too wear my watch on my left wrist, always have. If I do too much writing or computer work it has to come off!

I always had trouble using left handed scissors in school, even made my teachers mad because I just couldn’t do it. Still can’t, as a matter of fact!

I am only now learning to use the mouse with my right hand (after 15 years of moving it back to the left side of the keyboard after my husband moved it!)

By: bmajor

bmajor — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:33:08 +0000

Im a leftie and wear my watch on my left hand. I too wondered if i was the only one lol

Lefties unite and bring hand smudges back into fashion!

By: RICOSUAVE

RICOSUAVE — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:55:18 +0000

does anyone else wear their watch on their left wrist because that is the way te rest of te world wears it?.. or am i just weird about it … i amways have to take my watch off during tests because i am making too much noise dragging it across the table

By: sfs

sfs — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:44:08 +0000

One day? The righties rule our world 365 days a year (366 when they can get them), and all we get is one day? That may be the worst part of being a lefty. Everything is oriented for the right-handers’ benefit (and often our detriment, even if it was unintentional). Doors, elevators, desks, even bicycle brakes. While special accommodations are sometimes available (e.g, left-handed scissors, guitars, fencing swords) they usually require extra expense.

On the plus side, however, my attacks were rarely parried even by good fencers back when I had the time to fence. I’ve even scored a touch or two against my right-handed coach. I play guitar right-handed, but I like having the extra dexterity (or should that be sinisterity?) for fretting.

The real worst thing about being left-handed? The usually unconscious pressure to conform to the right-handers.

By: Kaitie

Kaitie — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:13:33 +0000

Hooray for lefties!

I do pretty much everything left-handed, with the exception of playing guitar and using scissors. I learned how to play guitar right-handed, but I don’t know where the scissor thing came from. I’ve been doing it since kindergarden, where my teacher actually tried to get me to use the left handed scissors and I couldn’t do it.

The worst thing about being left-handed is definitely having to deal with right-handed desks. Especially in lecture halls because the lefty desks (if there are any) are usually on the far left side of the room…where I don’t like to sit. Binders and spiral notebooks are pretty awful as well.

By: mupledge

mupledge — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:46:45 +0000

ashtrays in the car. if you’re driving, it’s always on your right side…

my desk at my work is L-shaped. the left side offers about 12 inches, the right several feet. guess which side the phone is on?

By: Annie

Annie — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:50:03 +0000

Also: I can cut better with my right hand
I’ve always dispised writing utensils with writing on them (even if i can read upside-down)
Binders and spiral notebooks drive me crazy
my mother is the only right-handed person in my immediate family, so we always have to make sure to sit in away that our elbows wont be locked in a battle to the death