I'm a righty but learned to eat with my left hand because I didn't like to swap utensils when eating a steak...and it's easier to eat out with a lefty wife.
I hated those chairs, but I had to get used to them, and then the spiral notebooks, made me a real hard time. Also, I have a pair of scissors for lefties, and it really helps me when I need them.
I also saw a tape in an International Management course at Melcher where a business man was going over a deal with a Middle Easterner, handed a document to him with his left hand got the stink eye. They were also sitting on the floor and the American sat indian-style, with the sole of his shoe showing up.
Too bad, I can use both hands on the basketball court. :grin: I hate swiping credit cards or ID cards. The machine always has the reader on the right side of the machine. It is just more awkward for a left-hander to reach over the machine and swipe the card without messing up once. Benefit: I was the closer on my Little League baseball team. Saved 8 games out of 10 opportunities. I had a strong inside fastball and a 9-to-6 natural curveball.
A thread dedicated to us lefties, I like it. From school all the way to sports I have always known that something was off from the way everybody else does things. I still remember being in elementary school and being chastised for **** I did incorrectly because I was left handed. Of course it wasn't directly related to me using my hand, but being left handed I have come to realize that I perceive a lot of the things in the world in a different manner and thus operate differently. All my elementary report cards used to say some crap about me following directions when I used to do my best to adhere to them. Because I didn't align a stupid sticker or do things in the order they were "supposed" to be done in my teachers always found some crap to say. I am just grateful to my parents for not taking it with a grain of salt because as I grew and adapted I have been able to operate at a much higher level than my peers, graduating as one of the top students in my major when I graduated from college. Basketball is a different story though, for some reason my right hand is my strong hand and my left is my weak hand. I have been playing religiously since I was 9 and still find that my form frequently changes. The right hand I use to push off and hold my follow through just doesn't operate at the consistency it should. Maybe if I started out as a lefty things would have been different, but who cares I guess.
