It's National Left Handers Day

[BOSSHOG]

Be kind to Southpaws. And they (We!) should drink free at our favorite watering hole all day.

[EYESORE 9001]

1. I'm celebrating

I just passed out scissors to all the lefties and told them to get busy cutting out paper dolls Best holiday ever

I truly feel bad for left-handed people trying to adapt in a right-handed world.

[Easterncedar]

2. My right-brained self salutes you

Left handedly

[Doc_Technical]

3. Congrats southpaws

I been Ayn Randed, nearly branded communist
'Cause I'm left-handed
That's the hand I use, well, never mind

[no_hypocrisy]

4. My mother and kindergarten teacher conspired to convert me to be right-handed.

I got even with them both.

I'm ambidextrous.

[bamagal62]

5. I'm all messed up!

I’m a true lefty. But, there are some things I do with my right hand, either because a right hander taught me, or the only tools available were right handed ones. When I was just learning to read and write, I wrote everything perfectly backwards from right to left! 😂
If accuracy is involved, it’s all left. If it involves strength, it’s my right.
I had an Aunt growing up that would send me left handed scissors, left handed rulers, etc. I loved her for that!

[BOSSHOG]

10. Similar here

I write left handed, but bat right, golf right, use scissors right handed. It’s a mystery. My late great mother in law was the only other lefty in the family. When she died I got her left handed scissors, in a very nice box. I cherish them but can’t use them properly. I do crossword puzzles (sloppily) with my right hand. It’s supposed to be a brain stimulator, writing with your non dominant hand. But I don’t know which hand is dominant. Oh Well, we are pretty damned wonderful any which way.

[electric_blue68]

11. Lefty, here. I don't think I've ever seen a left-handed ruler! Though I've had a lefty scissor

[bamagal62]

13. I couldn't ever

Really use the scissors as by the time she gave them to me, I had already learned to use right handed scissors. The ruler, however, I used for years! Somewhere along the way, I lost it. 😢 One funny thing, both of my kids are right handed. They do everything right handed….except for tying their shoes! They tie their shoes left handed. It was the one thing that I taught them that stayed “left”! I always found that odd.

[electric_blue68]

16. Ya know I'm not sure which way I tie my shoes 😄

Next time...

But I do have a memory when I was 3 on vacation puting my foot up on a step starting to re-tie it, forgetting how, then remembering, and finishing it up.

[GreenWave]

6. Despite being forced to switch in grade school

I still do a few things left handed:
Sweep a floor
Blast (greatly exaggerated alas) a hockey puck.

[RainCaster]

7. My left handed wife told me about that first thing today

May this day be special for each of you.

[Torchlight]

8. It's an odd sensation being left-handed

and unable to use left-handed scissors.

Growing up, I was pigeon-holed into using the only available scissors, the standard ones. Received LH scissors in 2000 or 2001 and though I've kept them, I can't use them and my wrist bends weirder than when I had to write in spiral notebooks (on the half desks that were always made for righties).

Thinking about it, I guess my greatest struggle in the right-handed world was during college smoking from bongs and pipes.

[Mad_Dem_X]

9. I can't use left-handed scissors

I write left handed, but do a lot of other things with my right hand (like use a computer mouse). I always say that I am a proud Lefty, in every sense of the word!

Here's to my fellow Lefties - WE ROCK!

[bamagal62]

14. I forgot about those

Half desks!!!!! I also hate spiral notebooks.

[electric_blue68]

12. Draw, Write, Throw, Catch, Cut w Scissors, or Exacto Blade, Hammer Left-Handed...

Learned to use many other tools right handed.

Learned later in life to knit right handed, and crochet left-handed.

[Skittles]

15. my first bf was a leftie

he taught my severely autistic southpaw brother how to tie his shoes