# Happy Left Hander's Day! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 13, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596 "2011-08-13T18:31:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596/1 "2011-08-13T18:31:58Z")
My fellow lefties, celebrate! I’m going to use scissors with my left hand today, not peel potatoes today, and wipe with the right! What are you going to do to celebrate? ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596/2 "2011-08-13T18:47:22Z")
Thanks for reminding me! I totally forgot! Off to [_the Leftorium_](http://www.leftorium.com/)\* for gifts! * * * \*linked to as a gag. Not necessarily an endorsement of their products/services. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596/3 "2011-08-13T19:09:50Z")
When is Happy Right Hander’s day? ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596/4 "2011-08-13T19:18:47Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > When is Happy Right Hander’s day? Oh, that’s all the other days of the year. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596/5 "2011-08-13T19:35:54Z")
Lefty checking in! ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596/6 "2011-08-13T21:16:25Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > When is Happy Right Hander’s day? When you have to adapt to everything in life like we leftys do. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596/7 "2011-08-13T22:01:56Z")
YAY Lefties. I’m a rightie myself but I gave birth to two of your order. I’ll have to call them today. ---
**Author:** ![Southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southpaw)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596/8 "2011-08-13T22:07:13Z")
I totally forgot! :smack: I’ll celebrate by drinking my wine with my left hand. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596/9 "2011-08-13T22:59:50Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Oh, that’s all the other days of the year. That’s too generous… Right to Left hander ratio being 90-10% Right handers should get Happy Right Hander’s a week long Carnival with costumes and dancing. [QUOTE=picunurse] When you have to adapt to everything in life like we leftys do. [/QUOTE] Just out of curiosity, what do you have to get adapted to… I can think of guitars (I used to be envious of Hendrix’s upside down Strats)… and… Well, I guess ergonomics of pretty much everything is oriented with 90% of the population in mind. Okay you do deserve your day. Happy Lefty’s Day! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596/10 "2011-08-13T23:10:30Z")
Yay Leftie Day! I have ummm… used my mouse left handed, eaten breakfast, lunch and dinner with my lefthand, written with my left hand. Ok, I do that everyday. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596/11 "2011-08-13T23:10:50Z")
Left Hander’s Day? How sinister. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596/12 "2011-08-13T23:22:50Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > That’s too generous… Right to Left hander ratio being 90-10% Right handers should get Happy Right Hander’s a week long Carnival with costumes and dancing. > > Just out of curiosity, what do you have to get adapted to… I can think of guitars (I used to be envious of Hendrix’s upside down Strats)… and… > > Well, I guess ergonomics of pretty much everything is oriented with 90% of the population in mind. Okay you do deserve your day. Happy Lefty’s Day! 🙂 Scissors, irons, baseball bats, golf clubs to name a few. Oh, and computer mouses, unless of course its a magic mouse, like mine. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596/13 "2011-08-13T23:24:26Z")
Another southpaw checking in! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596/14 "2011-08-14T02:21:27Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > When is Happy Right Hander’s day? You can have all the ones you want during the [several years you’ll outlive us](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1099/do-left-handers-die-young). ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596/15 "2011-08-14T04:26:26Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > You can have all the ones you want during the [several years you’ll outlive us](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1099/do-left-handers-die-young). I always thought lefties were cooler but I guess I ought to appreciate being a righty. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596/16 "2011-08-14T05:36:16Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > I always thought lefties were cooler but I guess I ought to appreciate being a righty. Yes. Being a lefty is a horrible, horrible thing to have to suffer. In fact, we should get presents on Left Hander’s Day. It wouldn’t make up for it, but it would make our lives just a little bit brighter. ::weak cough:: ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596/17 "2011-08-14T06:33:48Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Yes. Being a lefty is a horrible, horrible thing to have to suffer. In fact, we should get presents on Left Hander’s Day. It wouldn’t make up for it, but it would make our lives just a little bit brighter. > > ::weak cough:: I could use a left-handed iPad2… anyone? ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596/18 "2011-08-14T15:26:27Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Yes. Being a lefty is a horrible, horrible thing to have to suffer. In fact, we should get presents on Left Hander’s Day. It wouldn’t make up for it, but it would make our lives just a little bit brighter. > > ::weak cough:: No, you just get Left Hander’s Day and the presumption that you guys may be slightly cooler people. That’s it. ---
**Author:** ![azraiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@azraiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/azraiel)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596/19 "2011-08-16T02:43:23Z")
Feck off, lefties! (Note to mods: this is both hyperbolic and tongue-in-cheek.) I grew up with a lefty for a dad, and another for a brother. More than that, my grandfather and all of my cousins (save one) are lefties. As is my uncle. Every male in my father’s line is a lefty, excepting myself and one cousin. I grew up playing golf with left-handed clubs. Cutting paper with left-handed scissors. Being the odd one out simply because I used the left part of my brain more than the right. If I have a son, odds are he’ll be one of you deformed freaks! Kidding. From the rare righty who grew up inconvenienced by left-handedness in his family, more power to you. There are righties out there who love you, because you’re family. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596/20 "2011-08-16T13:21:02Z")
Aww, I missed our day. ☹ I’m surprised there aren’t more people in this thread. I would guess that Dopers would have a higher proportion of left-handers than the general population. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-left-handers-day/592596.md?page=2)