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| Boynton |
I'm one of the 10 percent of the population that's left handed. Because we're such a minority a lot of things don't work as well for us. All of them are first world problems, but really annoying.
- Ergonomic scissors have the wide and skinny blades upside down when you hold them in your left hand and you can't see where you're cutting.
- Any chair with an attached desk has the desk on the right hand side.
- I have to choose my spot carefully at a restaurant so I don't have a right-left elbow war with the person next to me.
- If I'm using a pen with slow drying ink I'll drag the side of my hand through it, and both my hand and the paper end up smeared.
- Spiral notebooks are hard to use, because the spiral part gets in the way. So is paper inside a three ring binder.
- The ounce measurements on glass measuring cups are only visible when you hold them with your right hand.
- The number keypad on my computer keyboard is on the right hand side. I
either have to reach over or use my right hand to input the numbers.
- Way back when I learned how to use a mouse no one told me there was an option to reverse the buttons to make it work left-handed. I figured out how to do it with my right hand (and still do).
I never had any left-handed people in my "milieu", but I can well imagine the problems. Anyway, they say left-handed people are smarter and have better skills than the rest of us.
ReplyDeleteI know plenty of right handed people smarter than me, so I think that statement is a gross generalization :-)
DeleteLeft handed keyboard - https://www.amazon.com/Ergonomic-Handed-Keyboard-Business-Accounting/dp/B001DEUPIE/ref=pd_lpo_2
ReplyDeleteHmmm....wonder if I'll remember this the next time I need one?
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DeleteI'm a neither/nor...not ambidextrous though. Some things I do left...others right. Being lefty does run in my husband's side . his father was a lefty. Our nephew and his son are too. My grandson is a lefty. Odd that no females are lefties???
ReplyDeleteIt IS odd.
DeleteI am a lefty too!
ReplyDeleteLefties unite!
DeleteMy first teacher at the one-room schoolhouse asked my mother whether she should let me use my left hand or try to get me to switch. Mother told her to switch me if she could, so I was switched to right-hand usage. One thing I did during the pandemic was to teach myself to write with my left hand. It isn't pretty, but people can make out what I'm writing.
ReplyDeleteI admired your efforts.
DeleteI find it annoying that tea cups have the handle on the right-hand side.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
And if there's a decoration, it's only visible if you're holding the cup with your right hand. That's why I only have plain cups :-)
DeleteThese are things that a right handed person doesn't think of! Especially the dragging your hand through your writing!
ReplyDeleteSo true!
DeleteWay back int he day teachers used to convert the poor lefties. I think my youngest great grandson is a south paw.
ReplyDeleteHow neat! I wrote about the same topic and was surprised at how MANY left handed bloggers there were.
ReplyDeleteGosh, I'd never realised all the potential problems!
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