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STLBADGIRL
STLBADGIRL Posts: 1,693 Member
edited December 2024 in Chit-Chat
Hello my fellow Lefty's. I've noticed that we are coming up in the world, but still most things are made for right handed peeps. I get frustrated at least once a day. So please feel free to post your frustrations that you experience daily living in this right handed world here. Lets support each other - hell the Righty's do! I will go first....

Clasp on necklace made for a right handed person....

My necklace that I put on this morning took me 15 minutes to put on because the clasp is made for a right handed person. So when I initially put it on, the design was facing the wrong way!!!! Arggggh. And for me to try and put it on with my right hand took forever!!!! BS

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  • PowerMan40
    PowerMan40 Posts: 766 Member
    I too am ambidextrous, and do lost of stuff with my left hand. I just switch to the right when I need to do something, only righty's can do..
  • STLBADGIRL
    STLBADGIRL Posts: 1,693 Member
    I amambidextrous too....but my dominate hand is the right hand. I only to a few things with my right that I cannot do with my left. Like cut with scissors and throw. I shoot darts, bowl, eat, and everything else with my left.
  • STLBADGIRL
    STLBADGIRL Posts: 1,693 Member
    I still open the refrigerator and cabintets from the wrong side. Uggh
  • STLBADGIRL
    STLBADGIRL Posts: 1,693 Member
    I flip the magazine from the back to the front first....
  • synchkat
    synchkat Posts: 37,368 Member
    I'm a righty but I skate left handed. Since most things are made up for right handed skaters I feel your pain. Everything's just a little bit harder
  • zcb94
    zcb94 Posts: 3,678 Member
    STLBADGIRL wrote: »
    Hello my fellow Lefty's. I've noticed that we are coming up in the world, but still most things are made for right handed peeps. I get frustrated at least once a day. So please feel free to post your frustrations that you experience daily living in this right handed world here. Lets support each other - hell the Righty's do! I will go first....

    Clasp on necklace made for a right handed person....

    My necklace that I put on this morning took me 15 minutes to put on because the clasp is made for a right handed person. So when I initially put it on, the design was facing the wrong way!!!! Arggggh. And for me to try and put it on with my right hand took forever!!!! BS

    Your turn - Go!
    I've done that/had that problem. I've also noticed that the designs on coffee cups are best seen by righties, and that trying to switch to my right hand if asked is impossible! If I think of anything else, I'll be back.
  • PowerMan40
    PowerMan40 Posts: 766 Member
    138shades wrote: »
    STLBADGIRL wrote: »
    I still open the refrigerator and cabintets from the wrong side. Uggh

    I had to even think how a person could do that.
    STLBADGIRL wrote: »
    I flip the magazine from the back to the front first....

    I think that might be a mental thing like dyslexia but in the form of motor skills or processing?

    It also effects things, if you are ambidextrous, because you don't have a dominant side of your brain. this effects things like reading, math, opening books, etc. Its all related. Some blokes like me are dyslexic too because of it, I flip letters and numbers all the time.
  • STLBADGIRL
    STLBADGIRL Posts: 1,693 Member
    The desk at school was made for right handed people. I would have to twist and write to the side...wtf! I hated this shyt.. Where is the love?

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  • devilwhiterose
    devilwhiterose Posts: 1,157 Member
    edited September 2016
    I'm a lefty.

    I refuse to write in pencil.
    It took 6 months to get an inside waistband left handed gun holster.

    No one loves the lefties. :(
  • STLBADGIRL
    STLBADGIRL Posts: 1,693 Member
    138shades wrote: »
    STLBADGIRL wrote: »
    I still open the refrigerator and cabintets from the wrong side. Uggh

    I had to even think how a person could do that.
    STLBADGIRL wrote: »
    I flip the magazine from the back to the front first....

    I think that might be a mental thing like dyslexia but in the form of motor skills or processing?

    LOL.... You are funny. A lot of lefty's that I know do the same thing.
  • STLBADGIRL
    STLBADGIRL Posts: 1,693 Member
    I'm a lefty.

    I refuse to write in pencil.
    It took 6 months to get an inside waistband left handed gun holster.

    No one loves the lefties. :(

    Oh, the pencil. I have switched to pens that are geared for leftys. The ink dries really fast to prevent smearing.
  • STLBADGIRL
    STLBADGIRL Posts: 1,693 Member
    138shades wrote: »
    PowerMan40 wrote: »
    138shades wrote: »
    STLBADGIRL wrote: »
    I still open the refrigerator and cabintets from the wrong side. Uggh

    I had to even think how a person could do that.
    STLBADGIRL wrote: »
    I flip the magazine from the back to the front first....

    I think that might be a mental thing like dyslexia but in the form of motor skills or processing?

    It also effects things, if you are ambidextrous, because you don't have a dominant side of your brain. this effects things like reading, math, opening books, etc. Its all related. Some blokes like me are dyslexic too because of it, I flip letters and numbers all the time.
    I am Ambidextrous but what I was quoting was not normal behaviors just because of that status. There is more to reading a book backwards and opening a frig that way when you know it is more difficult across your body.

    I don't read books backwards...I read magazines from the back to the front. I can thumb through articles at my leisure and its comfy for me that way.....
  • STLBADGIRL
    STLBADGIRL Posts: 1,693 Member
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  • STLBADGIRL
    STLBADGIRL Posts: 1,693 Member
    Another thing that is irritating is logo belt buckles. I loop my belt to the left first...and with an logo buckle the words will be up side down. This landed a couple of embarrassing moments....lol
  • STLBADGIRL
    STLBADGIRL Posts: 1,693 Member
    epr3996 wrote: »
    I'm a Lefty living and dealing with it in a righty world.
    Book printer by day using shared computers so no changing it to be lefty friendly.
    UPS trailer loader at night so I have to wear the handheld scanner upside down in order to scan packages.

    The only people who give the lefties some love are other lefties!

    @epr3996 I agree. The only ones that give lefties love is other lefties..... That has to be a bummer wearing it upside down....
  • rebel_26
    rebel_26 Posts: 1,826 Member
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  • devilwhiterose
    devilwhiterose Posts: 1,157 Member
    That picture gives me rage. :D
  • STLBADGIRL
    STLBADGIRL Posts: 1,693 Member
    I was so happy when they came out with this - The Lefty Notebook. This is part of the reason I read the magazine from back to front.... wa3wdp97h9ty.jpg
  • rebel_26
    rebel_26 Posts: 1,826 Member
    arsydklqfwx5.jpg I found the solution for yall. FYI I have one child who is lefty. They tried and tried to change it in grade school and failed.
  • STLBADGIRL
    STLBADGIRL Posts: 1,693 Member
    rebel_26 wrote: »
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    This drove me nuts. I mean bonkers. While I should have been concentrating in school...I was pissed and struggling to get comfy. Right handed desk and right handed notebook, and the smearing of the pencil on your hand and sleeve.....ugh
    That picture gives me rage. :D

    Right.... High five.
  • rebel_26
    rebel_26 Posts: 1,826 Member
    yall even get a special day?? I think im converting...wbz7v3f61ut4.png
  • STLBADGIRL
    STLBADGIRL Posts: 1,693 Member
    This made me cry in laughter....from a right handed person - of course...

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  • zcb94
    zcb94 Posts: 3,678 Member
    I love those lefty notebooks! Another struggle I thought of is that many yarn-arts (crochet in particular) are not very easy to learn left-handed.
  • STLBADGIRL
    STLBADGIRL Posts: 1,693 Member
    rebel_26 wrote: »
    yall even get a special day?? I think im converting...wbz7v3f61ut4.png

    LOL....I didn't know this. I missed out on it this year. I wanted my daughter to be left handed....lol.
  • STLBADGIRL
    STLBADGIRL Posts: 1,693 Member
    rebel_26 wrote: »
    arsydklqfwx5.jpg I found the solution for yall. FYI I have one child who is lefty. They tried and tried to change it in grade school and failed.

    This is amazing. I have been thinking of this same thing...it really is a big inconvenience....I mean REALLY!
  • rebel_26
    rebel_26 Posts: 1,826 Member
    leave it up to san fran they always have the coolest stuff.
  • STLBADGIRL
    STLBADGIRL Posts: 1,693 Member
    Another thing that is irritating. When I go to the bank or sign something electronically. I have to turn the machine so that I can sign it.
  • STLBADGIRL
    STLBADGIRL Posts: 1,693 Member
    I would also like to add our check marks are different...I almost said backwards...but it's not backwards, it's just not the same way as a right handed person.
  • STLBADGIRL
    STLBADGIRL Posts: 1,693 Member
    epr3996 wrote: »
    I want to Swipe my Credit Card with my left hand and I want it now!!!

    OH THIS IS A GOOD ONE. AND I STILL HAVE TO TURN THE MACHINE AROUND TO SIGN MY NAME.....
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