Community Chat

[781Florist]

We correct handed people just approach most stuff differently than our less fortunate right handed brethren!  I'm sure that everyone has seen the old chestnut about "If the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body....then only left handed people are in their right mind!"

This right-minded orientation is supposedly the reason lefties are generally considered to me more likely to be creative, artistic, and drawn to or exel at things in those areas.

This is certainly true for me.  I loved everything to do with the liberal and fine arts in school.  However, math and science were like kryptonite and ebola to me.

When I give directions, I give them the way I would prefer to get them....

Instead of "Take I95 to I93 and then go x miles until you see exit so and so...."

I would say ""Go up Main St. and over the green bridge until you come to Arby's

then take a left and go as far as Valvoline Oil Change..."   See?  I use visual landmarks 

not numerical markers.

And oh, BTW, I put my left sock and shoe on first, iron left handed, bat left, throw left,

carve a roast lefty but eat dinner knife righty and use scissors righty because that was the only alternative we had growing up.  LEFT ON, EVERYBODY!!!

[akaburtonfan]

@Malcontent @My brother was also a lefty and wrote with his wrist bent over the top of his writing. I didn't. I drug my hand over my writing so the side of my hand was covered in lead from my pencil by the end of my day. 

[novamc1]

I might be a leftie, but my  handwriting never looks like it, nor did I ever crook my left hand over when writing.  It might be the way I was trained when very young to compensate for my left-handedness.  I had very good printing and longhand writing--all A's in "penmanship".

My younger sis, on the other hand (no pun intended) has been a lifelong leftie with absolutely illegible and unintelligible handwriting.  She's a bright person and a lawyer, so intelligence has nothing to do with it!! 

Our parents believe that she watched me and copied me when very young, without getting the same readable results.  Maybe she wasn't born a leftie but unfortunately wound up as one.

I consider myself ambidexterous...........must use right hand for ironing, operating a computer mouse,  and other tasks, for example.

But if I ever lose the use of my left hand, I will have to Iearn all over again how to hold a fork or spoon, brush my teeth,  and probably even get dressed easily.

[Duckncover]

One of my grands is a southpaw...it took a long time to finally figure out why she was having so much trouble at her tennis lessons...,the coach insisted she hold the racquet like a right--hander. She was only five and just cried and tried...coach was clueless so we had to pull her out. Fortunately she got a K and 1st grade teacher who were both southpaws...what are the odds? She is 14 now and flourishing...she golfs right-handed and ties her shoes in a way I can't even explain....whatever works! 

[Stray]

I'm left handed but some tasks were taught to me by a right handed person.  I iron with my right, play tennis with my right & knit, right handed and when I scrubbed in the operating room, I set up my tray right handed but handed instruments with my left.  When I saw an instrument tray set up by a left handed person, it looked alien to me.  I open the refrigerator with my left hand but hated a left handled refrigerator.  I prepare food with my left hand.  When I read a book iI hold with my right and turn pages with my left. 

[CelticCrafter]

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@gertrudecloset wrote:

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@CelticCrafter wrote:

I iron with my left hand.

I use scissors in my right hand, I tried left handed scissors once and that was the end of that. 

I use a chef's knife in my left hand but I use the dinner knife in my right, I've always held the fork in my left hand.

Glass measuring cups are made for right handed people, if you want to see the cups and ounces, not the metric measurements, you need the handle to be on the right side. 

Fancy tea cups are made for right handed people too, if you use your left hand to pick it up you don't get to see the main design. 

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This means you are ambidextrous @CelticCrafter 

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No, not really, with the exception of what I mentioned above, everything else is done with my left hand - write, open doors, jars, pouring things.

[Imaoldhippie]

@KingstonsMom .......thanks I searched quite a while for something funny.  Found several but I liked this one best.

Thanks for noticing.

[BExplorer]

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@Love my grandkids wrote:

@PinkyPetunia Agree about the watch. I've never known a lefty who wore it on the left side.

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🤚 I do😀

[Dragonfly416]

I have the same quirk. Right sock definitely must go on first lol

[IdahoGram]

I was the only left-handed person in my entire extended family until my second daughter came along.  They did try to convert me in second grade, but my mother went to the school and set them straight.  That was in the early forties, no idea how she knew that was a bad idea.

I write and eat left-hand, can only cut my food with knife in left-hand, bat & iron right-hand.  I have an excellent sense of direction and am only somewhat creative.  My daughter on the other hand is very creative and artistic and almost ambidextrous.