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    How many left handed people do we have here on akaQA?...And

    What do you find to be the biggest problem or the most difficult item to use while being left handed? Please explain.


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    I have given up on using potato peelers because the angle of the blade is made for right handers so it's impossible to remove the skin. My fingers cramp up when using scissors and box cutters become a lethal weapon in my hands.

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    ....I do things right


    ....also, I try to do the right thing

    Ducky

    Moderator
    And I suppose that Mrs.There thinks you're right! (Put her on here.)
    Benthere

    ....come back, there seems to a a weak signal and static.
    Ducky

    Moderator
    MRS.THERE IS WANTED HERE ON THE FORUM. WE NEED HER OPINION! MRS. THERE...MRS. THERE...MRS. THERE....

    I used to bat left or right-handed, and throw darts better as a leftie. My handwriting is challenged, but legible, and using flatware is easy.


    My left-handed friends say one problem is sitting at a crowded dining table, and they take the left outside or right inside end so they don't bump the rightness next to them.

    country bumpkin

    Moderator
    I find it to be a bit strange when a left handed person can do something easier with his right hand when he is left handed and vise versa, but is not placed in the category as ambidextrous.
    I ask to sit in the corner at a table to keep from bumping elbows with right handers too, so annoying for both.
    Bob/PKB

    A bowling teammate is left-handed in fine-motor skills, but bowls right-handed. I think she bats right and throws right, too. Scholarship to college for softball, but I never saw her play. Mom's completely left-handed.
    Ducky

    Moderator
    As I think I've mentioned here before, I do some things left handed, even though I'm right handed. I do it without thinking. Odd.
    Bob/PKB

    Your brain works well on either side!
    Ducky

    Moderator
    Some would argue that but thanks.
    mycatsmom

    Everyone, whether left handed or right handed should keep their elbows DOWN, instead of sticking out at their sides, so as not to bump the person sitting next to you, when eating in a group.
    Ducky

    Moderator
    @mcm...Ever try to cut a steak with your arms touching your sides? Try it!
    mycatsmom

    Ducky, hheelllooooo,, My mom made me cut steak or whatever with my arms down at my sides when we had company and I was sitting next to someone else.You don't want to elbow them.
    country bumpkin

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    HHEELLLOOOOO MCM.... I was also taught to keep my elbows DOWN instead of sticking them out to my side when sitting at a table just like YOU were taught and I'm sure Bob and Ducky were taught too. Guess what MCM, I do keep my elbows at my side, but it doesn't matter because when a left handed person is sitting among a group of right handed people the slight back and forth movement from the left handed person becomes noticeable no matter how slight the movement. MCM some of your very rude and unthoughful opinions really want to make me elbow you with my left arm.
    Ducky

    Moderator
    <smirk>
    Bob/PKB

    .....considerably more compassionate than I think of being on occasion, CB.

    I remember my left hand being wrapped up in a towel in first grade so that I couldn't use it.I'm right handed now but I think I'm naturally left handed because I do so many things better with my left.

    Ducky

    Moderator
    How sad. :(
    country bumpkin

    Moderator
    That's a shame Tommyh.

    I'm not a lefty but have a couple of left handed friends. They always look awkward to me. I want to say use the "right hand" and it will be easier for you.  lol


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    ROMOS

    You should see CB trying to open a parcel with a pair of scissors, the tears run down my legs...
    Ducky

    Moderator
    I can picture it. I wouldn't laugh at her though. (Phhhtttttttt) LOL!!
    ROMOS

    I try not too, lefties are EVIL you know!
    Ducky

    Moderator
    "Evil"???? I didn't know that.
    ROMOS

    OH YES.
    country bumpkin

    Moderator
    HA! Switching to the right hand does look easier. I seriously find it hard to watch a left handed person while writing because it looks almost painful, example watching Obama when he's sighing documents.
    Now I know why Roy asks me several times if I've got the package open yet or can he help me open the package. LOL

    Left handed people are not evil! Remember, Everybody is born left handed, it's only after a person commits a sin that he or she becomes right handed. LOL
    Bob/PKB

    My mother could not just let my grandkids use whatever hand they wanted to hold their fork or spoon. She was from that "ancient" school who thought everybody needed to be right-handed. Frustrating woman on so many levels.....
    country bumpkin

    Moderator
    I do have a vague memory of somebody trying to get me to use my right hand instead of my left, but I don't remember who or why. I't may have been my crazy Aunt Laura. LOL.... Roy has Skyped with my Aunt Laura and I'm sure he'll confirm. :)
    Ducky

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    I have noticed that when left-handed (and leftist) Obama signs something, he uses that upside down method. It does look weird. I had a cousin who wrote like that and of course, I teased her regularly. :) (That's hard to believe, I know.)
    ROMOS

    It's only right that right is right, right?
    Ducky

    Moderator
    Right!
    country bumpkin

    Moderator
    I don't turn my hand upside down to write like Obama and many other left handers do. It looks odd to me when I see people writing this way.
    Ducky

    Moderator
    I would think that it would be more comfortable to just move the page/book.
    mycatsmom

    Ducky, left handed people hold their hand " upside down " when writing, so they can see what they're writing.
    ROMOS

    A "Kindle" page would never move, just imagine being stuck on the first page for the rest of your life.........enough said, can't even think it through!
    Ducky

    Moderator
    @mcm...So Country Bumpkin can't see what she is writing? How does she manage?
    ROMOS

    Emmm, Duck, I don't think mcm said that exactly.
    Are you left eyed?
    Ducky

    Moderator
    Quoting Country Bumpkin..."I don't turn my hand upside down to write....." What did I miss?
    mycatsmom

    Thank you , Romos
    country bumpkin

    Moderator
    MCM you are incorrect! Not all left handed people turn their hand upside down to write. I am a left hander and I do not turn my hand upside down to write or to be able to see what I'm writing.
    Ducky

    Moderator
    Thank you CB.
    country bumpkin

    Moderator
    It's a fact and you are welcome.
    bulletman

    Thanks guys for pointing out the unusual antics a'south paw' gets up to, i was thinking are all women left handed, when using a street directory or map as they usually hold the map upside down to get directions. ha! ha! ha! lol.

    just be glad we don't live in the days when teachers  made every child write right handed. And they would rap his knuckles or his hand with a ruler if he wrote left handed.  In the 80s, my g. friend's father told her that's the way it was when he was a kid. She is left handed too.

    Ducky

    Moderator
    Yep....saw that happen many times in the classroom.
    daren1

    Ya the nuns did that to me as well at the "Sacred Heart School of self defense" !"
    Ducky

    Moderator
    Pretty sad when you think about it.

    Me! Did anybody here have a teacher or teachers try to change you into writing right-handed? It was a fairly common practice "back in the day".

    country bumpkin

    Moderator
    This didn't happen to me thankfully.
    Ducky

    Moderator
    Very common here also. ('50s and '60s) It seemed a horrible thing for a child to be left-handed. :(
    Tommyh

    The problem was the teachers,not the left handed kids.The simply didn't know how to teach left handers.Old football coaches had the same problem.
    Bob/PKB

    We had a couple of lefties in our elementary class. Nobody tried to change what came naturally for them. One has a pronounced backhand ; the other always slanted her handwriting as a right handed person would, and you wouldn't have known the difference.

    I use my left hand to hold a nail,,and hit it with a hammer held in my right hand,,

    country bumpkin

    Moderator
    Are you right handed or left handed? I would also hold a nail in my left hand and hit the nail with my right hand if I'm right handed.
    Ducky

    Moderator
    Me too. Now I'm getting confused.
    hector5559

    We used to have a foreman that was left handed,And he use to say when i nod my head hit it,we did and he had bumps all over his head..

    I'm a right user all the way. Nothing in my left hand works. David, on the other hand was a rightly but the stroke hit him on that side. He doesn't turn his hand upside down to write but then I'm POA, I sign everything for him......

    In the sporting world of cricket,,Left handed batsmen are harder to bowl to,,and left handed bowlers are harder to bat against,,left handed sportsmen are very oft-putting to right handed sportsmen,when competing against each other,,,being left handed has it's advantages and disadvantages,, i am right handed,but in boxing ,Axe work and brush hook work,,i am classed as two handed,,Here is something to help with Lefty's..>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<..http://www.anythinglefthanded.co.uk/

    country bumpkin

    Moderator
    LOL...Is this my birthday wish list?
    terryfossil 1

    I reckon you would find everything dearer for a leftý CB..>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<..

    I was till my kindergarten teacher switched me to right hand. Mom was so pi$$ed but she found out to late. I'm basically amber dextrous now, but have terrible hand righting with both hands.

    country bumpkin

    Moderator
    How did the teacher switch you to your right hand, did she hurt you?
    My cursive is plain and boring but legible, my writing is plain also but very neat. I want to say shame on your teacher but if you are good at using both hands this must be looked at as only a positive situation, I think. Gee, I think too much. LOL
    JDB

    She didn't hurt me but any time I went to use my left hand she made me use the right, and it eventually sunk in.

    'Ambidextrous'   :)(:

    country bumpkin

    Moderator
    Neat-o! LOL

    Right handed,  and politically  leane to the right .

    Right handed,  and politically  leane to the right .



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