Hey Everyone,
I used to work in an office with a co-worker I'll call Sara. We got along well, and since I'm right-handed and Sara was left-handed, I would say things such ask:
* "Here you go, Sara -- I saved the left-handed stapler just for you!"
* "Thank goodness for these left-handed paperclips!"
* And if something was sitting on the right side of our desks, I'd put it on the left side and say, "Look Sara, this pen was right-handed, but I've made it left-handed - just for you!"
Now don't you worry, Sara had a wit sharper than cut glass, so not a day passed where I didn't get verbally smacked down -- but that was a big part of the fun.
I actually have several family members who are left-handed and have often lamented the difficulty of living in a right-handed world. In fact, the manager where Sara and I worked was left-handed, and he told us about a teacher who smacked his left hand with a ruler every time he tried to write with it.
One of my family members and I deal with a lot of paper records, and I was telling him how much I liked the Wite-Out Correction Tape as opposed to the liquid, which I find always turns into a goopy mess:
But my family member demonstrated that because the design is strictly "right-handed" (works only when pulling the tape from left to right,) he has to hold it in a very awkward position, can never get it to lie smoothly, and has problems pulling it evenly across the paper.
This made me think about all the inconveniences left-handed people have to deal with from day to day.
I love old-fashioned analog writing supplies, and was fascinated when I saw a video about spiral notebooks specifically designed for lefties. The coils are placed on the right side of the paper instead of on the left (like we're used to seeing for righties):
If I would have been a parent with a left-handed child, I would have definitely bought these.
How about the rest of you?
* Are you left-handed, or do you know people who are? Were you or the people you know punished for using your left hand?
* What are the worst inconveniences of living in a right-handed world?
* What are some products/things you wish were specifically designed for left-handed people?
Let's all put our hands together (no matter which one is dominant,) and show all our lefties a little extra love.
I used to work in an office with a co-worker I'll call Sara. We got along well, and since I'm right-handed and Sara was left-handed, I would say things such ask:
* "Here you go, Sara -- I saved the left-handed stapler just for you!"
* "Thank goodness for these left-handed paperclips!"
* And if something was sitting on the right side of our desks, I'd put it on the left side and say, "Look Sara, this pen was right-handed, but I've made it left-handed - just for you!"
Now don't you worry, Sara had a wit sharper than cut glass, so not a day passed where I didn't get verbally smacked down -- but that was a big part of the fun.
I actually have several family members who are left-handed and have often lamented the difficulty of living in a right-handed world. In fact, the manager where Sara and I worked was left-handed, and he told us about a teacher who smacked his left hand with a ruler every time he tried to write with it.
One of my family members and I deal with a lot of paper records, and I was telling him how much I liked the Wite-Out Correction Tape as opposed to the liquid, which I find always turns into a goopy mess:
But my family member demonstrated that because the design is strictly "right-handed" (works only when pulling the tape from left to right,) he has to hold it in a very awkward position, can never get it to lie smoothly, and has problems pulling it evenly across the paper.
This made me think about all the inconveniences left-handed people have to deal with from day to day.
I love old-fashioned analog writing supplies, and was fascinated when I saw a video about spiral notebooks specifically designed for lefties. The coils are placed on the right side of the paper instead of on the left (like we're used to seeing for righties):
If I would have been a parent with a left-handed child, I would have definitely bought these.
How about the rest of you?
* Are you left-handed, or do you know people who are? Were you or the people you know punished for using your left hand?
* What are the worst inconveniences of living in a right-handed world?
* What are some products/things you wish were specifically designed for left-handed people?
Let's all put our hands together (no matter which one is dominant,) and show all our lefties a little extra love.
I'm not a Lefty, but I can feel their pain. As a student and even as a teacher, I've had my knuckles smacked real hard with a stick that was over 2 feet long.
It was the hazards of the profession.
Those were used so we didn't get hurt! 😄
I trained my students to start with their dominant hand when doing a technique and then switch hands so they would become ambidextrous at least for what we were doing. It was a labor of love because they didn't pay me enough to do it for the money.
You might say that I was exactly the opposite of those mean teachers that strike Left hands.
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