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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2015 5:55:12 GMT
I found this in Facebook and it is almost midnight and August 13 which is Left-Handed People's Day. (Why do WE need a freaking day? I don't know. I don't make the rules or the days. It just is.) Here is a cute video mentalfloss.com/article/61822/11-facts-about-lefties and I thought it was appropriate for the day-long festivities all over the world. Cheers! |
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Post by countrypeagirl on Aug 13, 2015 6:08:57 GMT
Happy Left handed day to you too!! I'm proud of my south paw way of life!
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Post by anniebygaslight on Aug 13, 2015 6:32:58 GMT
Putting my left hand up. Had no idea that there was a day to celebrate our greatness.
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Post by stargazer on Aug 13, 2015 11:16:00 GMT
A year ago today we were in San Francisco & ds, who is left handed, was thrilled to visit the left-hander's store there...even more thrilled to snag the last free t-shirt for lefties! Good memories  (Right now he's playing left-handed mini-golf in the German sunshine after having to swap sides with me in our doubles badminton match due to his left-handedness! He's the only leftie so sometimes we forget!) |
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Post by teepea on Aug 13, 2015 11:16:17 GMT
Happy to be a member of the lefties club:)
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Post by AnotherPea on Aug 13, 2015 11:58:43 GMT
Happy day to you all!
My youngest dd is the only right-handed grandchild on dh's side. It's neat to watch at get-togethers.
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Post by gonewalkabout on Aug 13, 2015 12:03:10 GMT
Ready to use my left handed mug today for morning coffee!
Growing up, out of the 5 of us, 3 are left handed. I'm the only lefty in my own family though
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Post by myboysnme on Aug 13, 2015 12:12:54 GMT
Raising my left hand, too! It's not always easy in a right handed world, but we do meet the challenges, don't we?
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Post by STBC on Aug 13, 2015 12:48:49 GMT
YAY for us lefties! |
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Post by auntkelly on Aug 13, 2015 12:55:28 GMT
Waving my left hand at all my fellow South paws!
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Post by alissa103 on Aug 13, 2015 13:00:47 GMT
Hello, fellow lefties! I married a lefty and our DS is one, too |
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Post by lindas on Aug 13, 2015 13:00:52 GMT
Another proud almost total leftie here! I say almost because I write with my right hand.
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Post by Meri-Lyn on Aug 13, 2015 13:20:04 GMT
Woot Woot! Yay Lefty Day!!!
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Post by marimoose on Aug 13, 2015 13:22:50 GMT
I have two lefties and two righties and both my dh and I are righties. My two lefties are the only ones out of 10 grandkids. You know they always had to sit together at meals haha. My son is a total leftie and my daughter writes and draws with her left hand but when it comes to sports - serving a ball, batting, bowling, shotgun, well then that is all a right handed move for her.
My older brother was a leftie growing up in the 60's going to parochial school and the nuns were dead set that this was a bad, bad thing and tied his arm to his side to try to force him to convert. It didn't work and I always wondered when I heard the stories if this contributed to his learning issues.
All you lefties go out to lunch with a righty and make sure you enjoy knocking elbows.
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Post by wandawoman on Aug 13, 2015 13:23:56 GMT
I didn't know we had a day to celebrate being left-handed.
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Post by SnoopyFan on Aug 13, 2015 13:32:49 GMT
My youngest son is the only leftie in our family.
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Post by candygurl on Aug 13, 2015 14:05:42 GMT
Leftie here!
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Post by Minnesota*Mom on Aug 13, 2015 14:25:26 GMT
Two of my kids are lefties. They will be thrilled to learn that today is their special day!  |
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Post by delila on Aug 13, 2015 14:28:07 GMT
Yay for us lefties!!
delila
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Post by anniebeth24 on Aug 13, 2015 14:35:20 GMT
You know. . . we lefties are the only ones truly in our right minds!
I heard once that the date for this holiday was chosen because there are no national holidays in August and that the number 13 always gets a bad rap. The founders wanted to promote all things "odd."
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Post by peppermintpatty on Aug 13, 2015 14:48:27 GMT
We Rule!!!
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Post by georgiapea on Aug 13, 2015 15:26:05 GMT
I think left handed people deserve a day devoted to them. The whole world seems designed for the right handed. In Portland, Oregon there is, or was at one time, a whole left handed store. I'll be sure to wish my co-worker a Happy Left Handed Day.
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Post by kath323 on Aug 13, 2015 16:20:33 GMT
Another lefty in the pod!
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Post by compeateropeator on Aug 13, 2015 16:43:43 GMT
Raising my left hand, too! It's not always easy in a right handed world, but we do meet the challenges, don't we?
We try. Another Lefty here who has had some learning curves throughout the years...some I never did master...hahaha.
When I started my first full time non-temp job it was in a bank check processing center where we used transit machines to balance transaction and micr encode information at the bottom so that they could be run through a sorter and have the data captured and sent to the mainframe. The machines were set up to key the numbers with your right hand and handle/drop the paper item into the encoding track with your left. There was no way to modify it other than to get another machine for left. Lots of money and wasn't going to happen. Speed and accuracy were a critical component of the job. It probably took me longer than most right handed operators but I did master it and was good.
I have trouble trying my shoes so they stay tied. I can double knot, triple knot, and they still come untied. One of my coworkers once watched me and said it was because the knot was all twisted, probably because I was taught by a right handed person. I still have not mastered this one. 
Everyone at work knows if I have checked something off because my check marks are always backwards.
I can't use any toilet brush, broom or other similar type of thing that has a head that screws on to a handle. Every time I try to use them the head unscrews when I use them. It is like I am using it in the wrong direction.
oh and there is so many more...the trials and tribulations of living in a right handed world...hahaha  (said jokingly)
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Post by grannyrose on Aug 13, 2015 17:08:08 GMT
My only daughter-in-law and my only granddaughter are both lefty.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2015 17:10:16 GMT
I write left handed and am left dominant in everything except ironing, sewing and cutting with a knife. I cannot for the life of me write properly. My handwriting is absolute sh!t. I had all right handed teachers who had no experience in teaching left handed children how to write. There are books to show south paws how to write properly now. I am thinking I might get one because it might make my penmanship better.
This is going to sound totally insane, but when I see a lefty writing on a piece of paper, his/her hand always looks so awkward! I am left-handed so this is a dumb thing to think because I, too, have to write this way. I am also very "surprised" to see other left-handed people in the world. I know I am not the only one in the world to be left-handed...it just comes as a surprise to see others out there like me! No one other than my dad's father who may have been left-handed is surviving in our family. I don't have any distant cousins, aunts, uncles or anyone. I just find it fascinating that I am the ONLY one.
My parents tried to teach me to do things right-handed hence the ability to sew and iron, knit and crochet (my limited abilities being what they are). I brush my teeth with my right hand. I just can't imagine being able to write with my right hand. I had to when i screwed up my left arm, and when it came time to putting pen to paper all I could do is spell out words i.e. E-l-a-n-n-a-h and I had to think about each letter. It's like my brain shut off. Weird stuff!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2015 17:13:30 GMT
Another lefty here. In my family we have 3 lefties and two righties. Our twin boys are mirror twins, so one is left, the other right.
I had read about the woes of a righty teaching a lefty how to tie their shoes, so my DH taught the righty and I taught the other. It worked like a charm!
I sometimes tease my sister that us lefties are statistically more creative and have a higher IQ. It usually gets a rise out if her, lol.
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Post by georgiapea on Aug 13, 2015 17:23:23 GMT
It does look awkward to see a left handed person write. Because our method of writing left to right was designed for right handed people.
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Post by sillyrabbit on Aug 13, 2015 17:50:43 GMT
I'm not a leftie, but I love an awful lot of them. About 75% of DH's extended family is left-handed. Between our children and his sister's children half are lefties. And now the next generation has started it...my great-niece is a leftie.
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Post by angscraftylife on Aug 13, 2015 18:07:12 GMT
another lefty checking in! oddly enough i don't write like a typical lefty  |
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