"Being left-handed means feeling like you’re doing everything backwards. Measuring tapes, scissors, pens attached to desks at the bank, cameras, some power tools, can openers and school desks all prove to be far more challenging for those of who lead with their left hand. Lefties know you need to get to classes early enough to score a left-handed desk to avoid Twister-like contortions of using the others. The desk was only the start of school woes: don’t forget about impossible-to-use binders, coiled notebooks that leave indentations as you write, and a hand smeared with ink at the end of the day. If you’re a lefty, Aug. 13 is your special day to bond with your fellow southpaws. A few notable reasons to celebrate International Left-Handedness Day: Great nicknames like southpaw, cack-handed and gibble-fisted. On a QWERTY keyboard there are 1447 English words typed solely with the left hand — only 187 are typed with the right hand alone. Also, you’re in pretty good company - notable lefties include Paul McCartney, Tom Cruise, Prince William, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci and Mark Twain."
6 comments:
Only left-handed people are in their right minds.
Thanks, Lem.
Don't forget Lefty Obama. As a right hander I think I could throw a baseball with my left as well as he can.
Left handers, like me, are more creative than right handers, on average, but also more erratic.
Baseball is a great exception in the world of sports because being left handed in baseball is a significant advantage, especially for a pitcher. His pitch naturally tails away from right handed batters and there are many more right handed batters than left handed on most teams. Also a lefty pitcher faces first base -- much harder to steal on. It's also an advantage to be a left handed batter since most pitchers are righties even though pitching is a natural lefty position.
My previous post doesn't make sense. A lefty pitcher's pitch tails away from a lefty batter and crowds a righty batter. All I know is that everyone knowledgable about baseball agrees that being a lefty is an advantage.
Dad Bones said...
Don't forget Lefty Obama. As a right hander I think I could throw a baseball with my left as well as he can.
So was Willie.
Tells you something.
I'm left handed. I read somewhere that being left handed is a kind of neurological condition. They're more prone to epilepsy and other neurolocal conditions. At every stage of life, left handers have a higher rate of mortality than the right handed. They live in a world that is not designed for their ease or comfort, and all that subliminal frustration takes a toll......I recognize that left handlers are smarter and better looking than right handers, but that doesn't compensate for an early death.....I'm not suggesting reparations, but I think that in the interests of parity, lefties should be allowed to retire sooner and receive higher pensions than right handers.
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