Today is Left Handers Day!

[sufrommich]

According to those who study such things, while Stone Age implements were equally divided between left and right handed folks, studies of cave drawings seem to indicate a preference for the left hand.

Now, that may not seem like a big deal, and in reality it probably isn’t, but as we prepare to celebrate National Left Handers Day today, it’s at least a nod to southpaws everywhere.

No one has come up with a definitive reason for why some people are left-handed, but about 13 percent of the population around the world are, and it is thought to be genetic – it definitely runs in families.

There’s no doubt that the world as we know it is made for right handed people. Many of the items righties take for granted are difficult, if not impossible for lefties to use properly.

Almost all doors are designed to open with the right hand, and hand rails are always on the right. Watch your step, lefties, no help on that side.

http://www.registerstar.com/opinion/editorials/article_1008939c-225a-11e4-a1e3-0019bb2963f4.html



For my fellow left handers who grew up with permanent pencil lead smudges on our hands in school and have fought a life long battle with potato peelers and can openers,this day is ours!!

[alsame]

1. I'm left handed too. Getting a

left handed scissor changed my life

[sufrommich]

5. I had a kind hearted teacher in the 3rd grade who

went out of her way and bought me a pair of left handed scissors,it was the first time I realized that using scissors didn't have to be painful.My brother and I are both left handed andmy mom always made sure we had left handed scissors after that.

[alsame]

8. I'm the only leftie in my family so as a

kid I did my best to adapt to the right handed world.

I managed with most things but scissors were always a problem and, as you said, painful. Made it really hard to do arts and crafts in school and other kid stuff. I finally got left handed scissors when I was a teenager and have had a pair ever since.

[riqster]

2. A sinister topic, I say.

[alsame]

3. Yes, we are the

devil's children

[JustAnotherGen]

4. A special shout out to my husband

I've not had a single kitchen accident since he finished our remodel in December.

For the first time in my life - I have a 'left hand triange' kitchen and EVERYTHING with one handle opens to the left.

It's the little things you know!

[sufrommich]

6. That is great! nt

[alsame]

11. Congrats! And

for your husband!

[Brother Buzz]

7. The Lord has drowned the wicked and spared the righteous

[sufrommich]

10. lol,bless Flanders for giving it a shot. nt

[Brother Buzz]

17. The Leftorium is still open and still not making money despite the fact that...

one third of Springfieldians are left-handed, or so says lefty, Matt Groening.

[hobbit709]

9. Us lefties are the only ones in our right minds.

[sufrommich]

12. literally. :)

[randome]

13. I'm right-handed but I make a point of using my left predominantly on Mondays, Wednesdays

and Fridays. Just to make me think about things more. I can throw well with my left hand but activities that require finer motor control require more concentration.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)[/center][/font][hr]

[sufrommich]

14. My son is right handed and bats and throws left handed.

My brother,who is left handed ,taught him how to play. My right hand is practically useless for anything beyond gross motor skills.

[benld74]

15. Our oldest is a lefty, her grandfather(wife's side) was a lefty as well

Story is, the family turned him into a righty. With belief that lefty was some sort of bad thing,,,,,

His grandson, is a righty, but bats left handed.

[sufrommich]

16. It wasn't unusual for schools to force left handers to

write using their right hand a long time ago.

[RebelOne]

22. Yes, I am left-handed and remember

a teacher trying to force me to write with my right hand. It didn't work, so she finally gave up. You cannot force a left-handed child to be right-handed.

[shraby]

18. My mother was left handed, I am left handed, and at least 2 of

my grand children are left handed..I think one more is but I'm not sure.

What's amazing since we are among a small minority of the population, is that the year Ross Perot ran for president, all the main candidates were left handed, and Obama also is a lefty.

edited to add this:
I bought a left-handed can opener one time, and my rightie husband picked it up to open a can..never saw it before because that wasn't one of the things he ever did. He yelled to me from the kitchen. "How do you work this thing?"

[sufrommich]

20. "all the main candidates were left handed"

Wow, I didn't know that.

[Mnemosyne]

19. Being a lefty makes it really hard to screw,

light bulbs, screws, etc.

Really glad we aren't considered evil nowadays too!

[49jim]

21. I'm left handed....my wife is

left handed..... we have two sons....our oldest son is left handed and our youngest is right handed....the younger one does everything right handed except to eat. He uses his left hand to hold a fork. My theory is simple....he grew up watching three people use their left hand to eat...the fork is placed on the left side of the plate.....he must have thought that was the hand to use. On another topic...I played right handed golf for 30 years and really struggled. Ten years ago I made a change to left handed golf...what an improvement.....I swung a bat left handed....and bowled left handed......far more comfortable and natural. Go lefties!

[closeupready]

23. Love a leftie! Obama is left-handed, I think.

For some weird reason, many presidents have been left-handed. The more. You know.

[ellenfl]

24. i'm a double lefty. eom ;)

[FSogol]

25. Woot! Don't forget corkscrews and ladles with pouring spouts.

They are backward too.

[conservaphobe]

26. No respect for us mixed-handed folks.

I write and hold a fork with my left.

Use scissors, play sports, and wipe with my right.

[unblock]

27. i write lefty but who writes these days?

i also eat lefty. basically fine motor skills are lefty; right for big/power stuff.

[MineralMan]

28. I'm left-handed, but use my right hand almost on an equal basis.

About the only think I do exclusively with my left hand is writing. Otherwise, I'm ambidextrous.

[sufrommich]

29. I had to add this:

23 Things Only Left Handed People Need To Worry About

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/lefty-problems

Hilarious and true.