Right-handed people who, when doing something with their left hand, say “Boy is this difficult”
Really.
As a mixed-dominant person, I have few problems that I haven’t learned to deal with in some way or another. Left-handed school desks are still the bane of my existance (even in college). When I started at my new job, I asked for a left-handed cubicle. There were some puzzled looks.
I was one of those kids they forced to write with my right hand so my situation is one in which most of my dexterity has ended up in my right hand while most of my strength is in my left.
Baseball gloves have been mentioned, but what really bothered me growing up was that I did not once see a lefthanded catcher’s mitt. Not that I minded first base, but I mean, c’mon…
On a related note, I ended up playing more than my share of nets in street hockey because nobody else could use my baseball glove.
Finally, I resent that I constantly feel a little awkward simply functioning in the world. Door handles on wrong sides etc. I’ve become more assertive in recent years and will often only offer my inverted left hand to shake when being introduced to someone. I hope it’s not too off-putting… it’s not like I glare at them and mutter ‘leftist’ slogans at the same time. It’s just a comfort thing.
Probably when I shout “Fuck you, lefty!!” and spit on their faces and set fire to their homes.
(Just kidding if you didn’t catch on)
When I tell them they are untrustworthy, as sinister means both “left handed” and “devious”. Or at least it has evolved into that. Ususally accompanied by an idiot smile to break tension.
A dexter here. When my friend writes with her left hand, I say “how sinister of you!” She knows I am being an idjit.
Do you mean to tell me that you DON’T write on both sides of the paper?? I have written on both sides of paper since I learned to write, in and out of notebooks, and so has everyone I’ve ever photocopied notes from! Isn’t that why they are ruled on both sides?
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So…have you discovered any ways to piss annoying righties off? I have. You know those “vulcan greeting” and “reverse vulcan greeting” things from Star Trek? It’s fun to piss off people who are righties and can’t do either, by showing them how you can do both- with both hands.(to be fair though, I have a good amount of fine motor control in my digits- I can also spread my toes and move some of them seperately too.) The ablity to use the chinese medicine balls with both hands often has a similar affect on uncoordinated righties. It’s nice to be able to show a smug rightie (you know the type) that not only can you do things with your non-dominate hand, you can do it better than they can with their dominate one. Does anyone else do stuff like this? Maybe I’m just antagonistic, but it’s fun.
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I’m primarily a lefty, and a hooking lefty at that, at least with regards to writing. I had the right handed desks all through school, but they never bothered me because they were all I knew. I just got used to having my elbow hanging off in space as I wrote. I went to a Catholic school, which probably affected that (at least they didn’t tie my hand behind me). What always bothered me was when I was seated next to a righty with whom I bumped elbows constantly. That was a pain in the ass, for sure.
Just remembered: I recieved a button once as a birthday gift. It featured a drawing of a man holding a pencil with the caption: hire the left-handed; it’s fun to watch them write. Of course the man in the drawing was a hooking left-hander, holding the pencil in a manner that would probably hurt if attempted by a real person.
I start from the back of spiral notepads,it does’nt cause me a problem.Mind you i am right handed.I am also left footed and agree that lefties have a problem accessing their penis in an emergency.
Spiral notepads are’nt a problem for me,I start using them from the back.Although i am right handed i am left footed so i fully understand the problem lefties have in accessing the zipper when desperatly in need of a pee.
I’m a right handed guy with left-handed tendencies.
Things i do left-handed…
-Play golf
-pretty much anything involving swinging a bat is left-handed.
-Knife to the left, fork to the right…but use the knife right-handed when using it on its own to spread butter and the like.
There are one or two other things too. Doing these things right-handed just feels wrong. But I am right-handed with almost everything else. Writing, opening pickle jars, hitting people . In essence I’m left-handed in most of the non-annoying ways with the benefits of right-handedness in everything else… YAY. 
I’m left-footed too.
My Dad is left-handed in absolutely everything other than writing coz his Dad forced him to use his right hand when he was a kid. He can’t write left-handed at all now.
Haven’t most US presidents been left-handed?
Anchored pens, where they prevent the pens from walking off by attaching them to the desk and/or the notebook with a length of cord, the non-pen end of which is attached somewhere to the upper right of the surface on which you’re expected to write.
I have a tendency to pull until I have enough slack to lay my left hand down and start writing. Often this means snapping the string loose from its anchor.
Back when I was a kid playing T-ball and softball, as soon as I would come up to bat, the coach of the opposing team would yell to his outfielders, “Move up! Lefty!” as if being a left-handed batter made me suck.
However, coaches ALWAYS stick their crappiest players in right field, so I would regularly get doubles and triples. Also, first base is a couple inches closer for a lefty.
I’m “semi-sinister” - I write and throw with my right hand but do everything else with my left. My maternal grandfather had the exact same trait, which I always found a curious sort of thing to inherit.
welcome to the boards xxx_man…
… come on fellas 
Pens bleed through and so I can’t read my notes if I’m writing on both sides. (Also, when younger teachers would never accept homework written on both sides of the paper. (The other day I felt extremely sorry for kids these days - because their homework is supposed to be word processed they’ll never know the joy of having written a 3 page paper during the five minute break before the class in which the paper is due.))
I’m right handed, so I’m going to miss things. But I went into my kitchen and so far as I can tell, my potato peeler and ice cream scoop are symmetrical. For the peeler, it swivels just as far either way and both sides have an identical cutting edge. The scoop isn’t weighted heavier on either side. What makes them right handed and harder for left handers to use?
haven’t heard some whining since the fatgirl thing!
where does it say that because your left handed you must be a big whiner?
guitars can be strung either way, unless you need the cutout.
golf clubs are probably designed for a lefty since you use your left side to control the club. I have several golf friends who are lefties but use “right” clubs.
baseball gloves might be hard to find at walmart but go to a sports store and there are plenty of left handed ones.
pants with the rear pocket on the right side. just use it. I am right handed but use the left pocket for some unknown reason.
fishing reels (spinning type) are hard for a right hander, but I just learned.
2 of my daughters are left handed and so I have had to explore the lefty world. doesn’t seem that difficult to me.
I am sure there are things that are difficult for a lefty so why cant this thread be limited to those things only?
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**I’m right-handed but my mom and her mother are lefties.
Mom’s left handed<<trust me!>> lol
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I am very weirded out by this.
I’m left eyed,my home videos are the usual"look at my family aint we great?"kinda thing.When family and friends come round we watch the home videos standing on our heads(left eye is not as big a problem as you may think).
We can only watch short films though because granny does’nt like the headrush.
Okay, I’m a lefty. But I have a dig with other lefties out there. You know, the ones that make us look like gimps.
Why do these gimps say that a PDA is not built for lefties? They’re freaking BILATERAL, you dolts! Stop twisting yourself into a pretzel and just HOLD IT.
Freaks.
And you people who turn the sheet of paper your writing on about 90 degrees counterclockwise, and encompass the paper with your arm while you write…what the hell? Ink won’t kill you, man.