A message to the rightie from a leftie

[moe.ron]

Do you guys have trouble using scissors? What about shifting gears?

[mrblonde]

I write righty but cut lefty. I'M A FREAK!

[KillarneyRose]

I always wondered about driving a standard shift car in Britain. Does anyone know; do you have to press the clutch with your right foot and shift with your left hand? I think I'd just take the bus!

[AlphaXiGirl]

As a lefty, I can tell you that we adjust very well. I have an immediate family of all righties and there is no way that they would adjust to me.

I did have a lefty grandmother that willed me her scissors... god bless her!!!!

I can mouse right, I can mouse left... I can mouse left with the buttons not switched.... I'm amazing in my own eyes!!!!

[honeychile]

I was born left handed, but since my parents both were switched from left to right in school, they switched me to right as quickly as they could. I still do many things left-handed or ambidextriously (sp?).

It's very much a right-handed world, and some of the things you mention (such as scissors) are really hard, unless you have the left-handed scissors. Even measuring glasses are made for righties!

I thought I was alone in my age group for being switched so early, but I've since discovered that many parents had gone through the same thing my parents had, so they also tried to give their child the "rightie" advantage. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I do know that when I broke my right wrist and it was in a cast, I was self-sufficient!

[CutiePie2000]

Originally posted by KillarneyRose
I always wondered about driving a standard shift car in Britain. Does anyone know; do you have to press the clutch with your right foot and shift with your left hand? I think I'd just take the bus!

KR, I'm so glad you asked!
I was in Australia (same driving sitch as in England), and the pedals are the same, just the gear shift is on the left of you, instead of the right.

Ex-pats living in "Left Hand Road countries" typically get into accidents when they come to a roundabout (i.e. rotary, traffic circle) and they want to drive the car around to the RIGHT (which is how we would do it in North America), when they should be going to the LEFT.

GREAT QUESTION!

[winnieb]

I am a lefty--- I do everything left handed, except 10-key. I cannot figure out how to do that with my left hand. As far as a mouse, I move it to the left side and do not switch the buttons. For scissors as long as they area good brand (like Fiskars), I am ok-- old crappy scissors I need lefties.