I didn’t choose the left handed life, it chose me and it sure does slap me in the face at times. Sometimes I wonder if life would just be simpler if I was right-handed but then I remember people telling me left-handed people tend to be smarter than right-handed folks.
Perhaps that’s why we persevere through the injustices brought against us.
I mean hey we do get our own day out of this.
1. Right Handed Desks: Seriously imagine walking into a classroom full of desks to only notice 1 or 2 facing the right way and of course the select few lefties are running for them.
2. Scissors: The modern day medieval torture device. You either have to go buy your own pair and carry them everywhere you go, dig through until you reach the depths of the bottom of the box or suck it up and try cutting with right handed scissors. Rough.
3. Spiral Notebooks: Usually you have marks on the side of your hand from them.
4. Binders: Same struggles with notebooks
5. Coffee mugs are rough on you.
6. Places that provide pens that are screwed into the countertop…. Yeah they’re made for right handed people. Do you not want my money? Yeah it looks like I scribbled I could barely hold the pen.
7. Picking A Place to sit at the table: Don’t try sitting next to a righty, you’ll be bumping elbows all night but because you’re outnumbered it’s inevitable.
8. Credit Card Machines: Why do I always have to slide on the right?
9. Can Openers: I’m switching to electric because trying to use a regular can opener makes me want to throw the can. It’s possible I may starve.
10. Ice cream scoops: Seriously I think I may just find a spoon and eat it out of the container.
11. Guitars: Especially playing guitar hero, here just let me watch.
12. The stereotypical comments you get when people see you writing with your left hand: “Oh wait you’re left handed???? No I just wanted to try out how the 1% lives. No I’m not that creative, I draw stick figures and I write the same way you do with your right hand.
13. Holding playing cards is just awkward.
14. Baseball gloves.
15. Zippers
16. Being smarter than your fellow right handed friends.
17. The excitement seeing a celebrity is a leftie, they’re already fighting the injustices against you.
And the absolute worst thing ever about being left-handed. The dreaded…..
18. Silver hands. If you’re a leftie you already know what I’m talking about.
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