Lefthanders Day

Happy Lefthanders Day! I missed it last year, I found out about it the day one day after it happened, so this year I'm making a point to honor it - even joined the facebook group.

I did buy myself some left-handed scissors for the curtain project, and I guess they are left-handed - they work really well!

Here are other things I've noticed are designed for right-handed people:

- my eye doctor has pens attached to clipboards to fill out the paperwork necessary to be a patient, and the location - you guessed it, on the right side. So I kept having to move the chain out of my way since it went across the page, I also tried having it under the clipboard, either way was awkward.

- the ladle for a punch bowl is right handed when it only has the lip on one side and is designed to poured using the right hand, really awkward for me. the best solution, get a ladle with the lip on both sides

- the lawnmower has the cord you have to pull to start on the right side, again awkward for me, no wonder I have to get Kevin's help to start it..

I swear, even some of my necklaces are righthanded. if the pendant can come off I just reverse it, but some the pendant won't come off and I have to hold the clip open with my right hand so i don't end up with it on backwards

Left Handed

It can be so frustrating being left-handed sometimes. Just this morning, while doing my new Wii workout game, I realized again how much almost everything is geared towards right-handed people. The game always wants me to put the controller in my right hand and the nun-chuck in my left, but just the opposite is what I always want to do. Playing tennis was especially hard because they again assume the motion takes place in the right hand, I could just do the reverse of what they say (do forehand when they say backhand), but its confusing enough for me to FOLLOW the directions, much less reverse them in my mind while keeping up with it.

It got me thinking again about some of the other things I've had a hard time with being left-handed (and growing up in a family of right-handed people):

• I could never get the scissors at Sunday school to work, the one pair that said lefty didn't work for anything. I don't think I ever finished the projects requiring us to cut things out.
  
• The desks that have the chair and desktop together were ALL made for right-handed people, I'd have to contort myself to be able to write on them. no wonder my handwriting is so bad
• eating with others, I really do always have to get at the end of the table so I don't bump elbows the entire time. I have a magnet that says "being left handed means always sitting at the end of the table"...so true!
• learning to do the many things (throw ball, cut food, the list goes on and on) that require you to use your dominant hand. is it any wonder I do some things right-handed?
• trying to drive a stick-shift, ugh...I was a lost cause
  

I did a google dive and it turns out I just missed Left Hander's day - it was yesterday, Aug 13, who knew?? That same website has scissors, maybe I'll find myself a pair, or buy some real good left-handed scissors to give to the Sunday school, they probably have those same ones.....

It does make me quite aware of other left-handed people, I catch myself looking to see if anyone else is when I'm in a class, a meeting, or other surroundings where people are writing....