The only top break revolver I’ve shot is a Webley and the latch is on the left, designed to be used with the right thumb. I’ve had a Dan Wesson with the latch on the crane, forward of the cylinder. It’s made to be opened with the left hand but ironically it would be more awkward for a lefty than a conventional revolver.
Come let us go, I’ve a cask of amontillado.
Two more things for the woe-is-the-leftie file:
Jeremy…
Nobody ever calls me after they’ve done something smart.
My husband was one of those kids that was forced to switch, so he’s kind of ambitextrous. Time has made his right hand more dominant, but that’s not the point of my story.
Husband is a guitar player. He was taught to play right-handed (right hand on the strings, left on the fretboard). My left-handed daughter is showing a great deal of musical inclination, and she really likes guitar. We got her a little student-model guitar at Toys R Us. It’s still a little big for her, but it’s cute, and she likes it. He’s not keen on teaching her to play left-handed, though. I think with him it’s more of a cost issue than anything–left-handed guitars are more expensive. When she pulls out her little guitar, she does hold it right-handed. But one day last week, she was sitting on the couch with it on her lap, upside down, strumming it left handed. All I could tell my husband was “hey man, you’ve got to quit fighting it. Your dad forced you to play right-handed, why force her to do the same?” Oh well. We’ll figure it out.
“The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his ribcage.” --anonymous redhead
Chisti, it’s true that purpose made left handed guitars are hard to find but many can be strung left handed with no consequence and some with a little bridge work. Look at Jimi Hendrix. His right handed stratocaster (a very assymetric guitar if you’re not familiar with it) played left handed was so distinctive that a lot of righties mirrored him by getting left handed strats.
Come let us go, I’ve a cask of amontillado.
Bowling balls! How could I have forgotten in my earlier griping to bitch about right-handed bowling balls??
Unless you’re really into bowling (so that you’ve had your own personal bowling ball built and drilled), when you head for the bowling lanes you get to select any of several hundred right-handed bowling balls. Their thumbholes have all been drilled angled slightly left-to-right so that the right-handed bowler’s thumb doesn’t get chafed - and your thumb, of course, loses all of the skin on the right side by about the third frame. AARRGGHH!!!
Uhh - make that loses all of its skin on the left side. Oops. Obviously it’s been awhile since I’ve been talked into going bowling.
Techchick, thanks for the info. 
I guess at this point, I’ve since learned to modify my mouse-clicking so that it’s second nature and if I do it the left-handed way, I would have to retrain myself anyway.
I’m a leftie. I have some trouble with scissors, but that is about it.
And Coldfire, I always wondered about those dashes too!
Everyone is born righthanded but only the greatest overcome it.
i saw that on a shirt. i have another product to gripe about:
erasible pens!!! :mad:
Whatever!!! Just don’t screw up my life with your wicked stupid ideas!
Hee hee…my lefthanded dad taught me to use the computer, and so I use the mouse like a leftie. Doesn’t bother me a bit but my coworkers thought it was pretty strange. 
Prairie Rose
If you’re not part of the solution you’re just scumming up the bottom of the beaker.
Another left-friendly thing, at least in America: Drive through windows.
I’vr learned to use the mouse and keyboard right handed, but I still can’t use right handed scissors worth a shit.
You say “cheesy” like that’s a BAD thing.
Try finding a fielder’s mitt for a left-handed six-year-old! I wanted to get my son a glove for Christmas, and went nuts trying to find a sporting goods supplier who carries any that small.
My smart wife suggested I try a site for left handers. It’s called “The Left Hand” and I tried to hyperlink it here, but something isn’t allowing me to.
anyway, it has a lot of stuff just for lefties, and especially for kids. I got a 9" fielder’s glove, and saw a bunch of other stuff for kids.
The Dave-Guy
“since my daughter’s only half-Jewish, can she go in up to her knees?” J.H. Marx
I’m a lefty guitar player. I like to play faster rock music, so I think that it was imperative that I learned to play lefty. My right arm doesn’t have the muscle for any kind of stamina. I guess that could be worked on but I’m lazy.
And I also find it so damn annoying how lefty guitars are usually 15-20% more expensive than their righty counterparts. And besides that, it’s so hard to find a good one anyways . I started playing on an ‘upside down’ righty Hendrix style, but switched after a nice lefty came up on eBay. Yeah, you can stay with the turned over lefty, but it’s so much harder because the damn volume/tone knobs are in the way! And the way the cable goes in is also awkward. And it looks pretty stupid playing an upside down guitar.
Ahhh… I feel better now that I’ve vented.
Deep thought: What if it’s really a right-handed thing in disguise? What if you’re meant to flush the toilet with your left hand and then turn on the water faucet with your right hand, thus washing the dirty hand without spreading its germs.
The hardest thing was learning to use a calculator…and also the keyboard on the computer…I’d like to have the numeric keypad on the left also. I once worked part time in a grocery store…and running the cash register with my right hand was difficult…course now they have the scanners so that takes care of that.
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