The nuns around here pretty much eradicated left handedness in the population...making a comeback the past couple of years though. I am right handed so the nuns left me alone.
I'm a proud shacknasty! As a matter of fact, I expect reparations from all you high and mighty righties for the pure hell you've made life on us lefties. Things like:
spiral bound notebooks
scissors
rifles
baseball gloves
shaking hands
saluting
etc, etc, etc
Send you reparations to:
Shacknasty Surveyor
123 Left-handed lane
Left Hand, West Virginia (it's a real place!)
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I'm not so bothered by things that have to be one way or the other, because they're definitely going to cater to the majority.
I mind the things that can be ambidextrous but are made right handed. Like the one handed kitchen faucets that are popular now, with the lever on the right side. I like the one handled faucets in the middle. The napkin dispensers at Burger King the last time I went there were slotted so you'd take them from the right, instead of the top.
Steel tapes have a small post/guide for the plumb bob string just on one side, when there could easily be one on both sides.
I am right handed so the nuns left me alone.
I'm right handed and they use to beat the Hell out of me just for fun. circa 1957-1965
I'm a lefty as is my sister and as was my father. He was forced to write right handed as a kid. His handwriting was barely legible and he started stuttering at the same time. Sometimes he stuttered so bad he could barely talk at all. But he still had a great career in book publishing and magazine editing. He stopped stuttering when he retired.
@jph I'm not really bothered by it either. I've adapted after 50 years of dealing with the dang righties.
I just like to sling some poo now and again.
Another lefty here. I recall early in first grade, the teacher said "your right hand is the hand that you write with." I held up my pencil and said, I can remember that. It stuck. Finally got left and right sorted out, and started running the gun for staking sewers, curb and storm drain, telling the chief to go to his left .....
After a while, that was mastered, and I was brought inside to draft at times. Leroy was the standard, and is impossible (I think) with your left hand. I stuck to it and got to be good at Leroying with my right hand. I think that helped me with a mouse when computers came around.
The timing of this thread is odd, as I just spent a weekend with my wife's family and her mom, brother, sister and niece are all lefties. Which got me thinking about a meeting of our survey regional a few years ago. We only had about 12, but 7 of us were left handed. So much for that 10% nonsense!
Ken
telling the chief to go to his left
I eat and write Shacknasty, all other activities Non-Shacknasty.
I was always considered left handed because I write left handed. Not that simple. I throw a ball right handed. Swing a hammer/machete with either equally well. Swinging a bush axe is left only. Shoot pool left handed. Shoot rifles best left handed but used to shoot fair right handed until my right eye went bad. I can shoot a handgun with either (a little better left handed). I had my method using a Leroy set left handed. I can write right handed but its not pretty, but even my left handed writing isn't pretty either. My Dad was left handed as well as two of my three brothers. I never knew of anyone else with such a mix until I spent some time this spring with a first cousin. He is almost as mixed up with his hands as I am.
On our way to Upper Klamath Lake today we stopped by old Fort Klamath Oregon to visit the grave of the aforementioned Captain Jack. He and 3 of his warriors, after being betrayed by former compatriot Shacknasty Jim, were hanged and buried
here Oct. 9, 1873. ‘Cept for their heads. Those were chopped off and sent back east. Story goes that recently a local family harassed and bully ragged the USA until they finally returned the skulls to the tribe for burial elsewhere.
Ambi-Weird here...
chopsticks both sides, and almost all tools except for the right hand only kind..
wrote right handed until I decided to go lefty time and again.
jump off the left, wear the watch on the right, catch left, throw right, kick either side, skateboard goofy, or reverse goofy, throw a frisbee(disc for the ultimate crowd) either (and that drives the defense insane) mouse left with a right handed mouse(you read that right), ping pong either way, and frankly I'm always in the position of the hand that fits the job wins for position and ease of use first, political and religious zealotry be damned!
I eat and write Shacknasty, all other activities Non-Shacknasty.
Mostly the same. quasi ambidextrous though. I have no problem writing on Lath because I don't need my hand to touch the lath, I can also hammer it in the ground and then just write upside or backwards with no difficulty. Not sure if that is unique or not. Can pound stakes equally well either hand. Right handed writing if I have to is passable but neater with my right.
James Garfield could write with both hands simultaneously in Greek and Latin.
Lots of stuff I do right handed only.
