On the other hand...

[Chez moi]

 

"Today is International Left-hander's Day, a day in which left-hander advocacy groups remind you that left-handed scissors, school desks, and computer mice are nonexistent in many places and hard to come by in others. The holiday was first celebrated on this day in 1976, started by Left-hander's International, with the guiding mantra, "Lefties have rights."

 

The group also puts out bulletins with information like this: "Did You Know? Right-handed people operate in the left side of the brain. Left-handed people use their right side. Therefore, only left-handed people are in their right mind."

 

Between 10 and 15 percent of the world's population is left-handed. While we don't really know why a fraction of the world is left-handed, we do know that it is genetic. Scientists have recently discovered what they think is the gene that allows a parent the possibility of procreating a left-handed child."

 

I am right-handed, but my mother and sister were/are lefties.  Mom was discouraged from using her left hand in school but she held out.  Her handwriting was beautiful, and she had an unusual way of curving her hand over the top of the page as she wrote. My handwriting is nothing to rave about, so being a rightie is not so much of an advantage there, I guess.

 

How about you?

[Chez moi]

Beth, thanks for sharing that. It would make a beautiful scarf - call Gucci!

And I didn't know that about horses going left (explains why the Dems are represented by a donkey?) - is that a natural tendency, or just the way the racetracks are laid out?

[BethD]

in England/France they run the wrong way to the right, I don't know about
other countries. They drive the wrong way on the wrong side of the street,
the steering wheel is on the wrong side. Why is that?

Chez, I was thinking it would make a cool scarf for racing fans or Rachel's fan, cool t-shirt too. Thanks for the compliments everyone!! :)

[Jaylee53]

My DD is a lefty...she has never been known to be conventional...arriving in this world 10weeks early for starters. I can't recollect anyone in recent generations being a southpaw.
I used to get her lefty notebooks and it made the teachers in HS a bit miffed. To this day she still can't cut with scissors which are designed for 'righties'.

[Chez moi]

That's true,when I try to cut with my other hand it just doesn't work - some kind of engineering thing there. My mother loved her lefty scissor collection. She sewed a lot of our clothes when we were kids.