The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed People
I can no longer be silent on the daily oppression of the left-handed community! Hear our pain, world!
1. Spiral Notebooks
Hurts the side of your hand. The worst are the 5-subject with the extra big rings.
2. Writing in a 3-ring binder
You have to do that thing where you fit your hand between the top two, then eventually have to pick it up and fit it in between the bottom two.
3. Only 1 gross lefty glove in gym class
The handsweat of a thousand lefties before you.
4. Only 2 pairs of the green lefty scissors in class, 3 lefty kids.
Scrambling through the scissors to find the ones with the green rubber handles, only to see they’re already all gone.
5. Ballpoint pens don’t work as well because you’re pushing, not pulling the ball
The ink will never flow as well for lefties, so our pens stop up more.
8. iPad Kindle app - left side is back page
This is really annoying - if you prefer to hold it in your left hand, you have to move your hand all the way to the other side to tap. On a real Kindle, page forward is on both sides, thankfully.
9. Driver’s cup holder is for the right hand
So you have to hold your cup with your right hand.
11. Dying sooner, so becoming a zombie sooner
Studies have shown lefties die up to 9 years sooner than righties. At least we’ll get to eat their brains.
12. These desks
College lecture hall desks with postage-stamp sizes desks. You have to twist your back and hold up your arm to use.
13. Measuring cups show you the stupid metric side
The cups/ounces side is for the righties. You have to do that thing where you twist your hole arm around to be able to read ounces.
15. Made for righties
Apparently you can get modified lefty controllers, but maybe you should just go outside.
16. Cord on the credit card machine pen never long enough
Annoying. Annoying. I’m annoyed.
18. For which someone invented THESE
The saddest thing is that all the lefties in the BuzzFeed office now want these. The indignity.
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pauld35 2 weeks agoYes I feel for you lefties, but No.9 is just moaning for moaning’s sake. I live in a country where we drive RH drive vehicles (On the Left side of the road) Our cup holders are in the middle and as a Rightie, I have no problem with it. In fact I even manage to change gear with my left hand…… Crazy! And as for No.13, once you guys catch up with the rest of the world and start using metric, you won’t have a problem with this one either!
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martinm21 3 weeks agoAdd to the list the old circle saw - Held in the right had the blade will toss stuff away from your body, held in the left hand the blade tosses it at your face. Eye protection is not an option. Long ago in Basic Training I found that the old M-16 (and I guess most other guns like it) were also built for the right handed person. The hot shell is ejected from the right side of the gun; if held by a right handed person that tosses the hot brass away from the body. The left handed person holds the rife in a way the ejecting shell comes back toward the face. Depending on how the gun is adjusted it will even hit the shooter. The trainer asked me why I was flinching so much and then looked at me - I had blood on my cheek from a shell - after that it was a bit hard not to be a bit jumpy. They were out of guns with a shell deflector (too many left handers in our group). One more - The hot and cold faucets are designed for the right handed group and they get a bit ticked off when you redesign it the other way. The right handed person standing at the sink will reach out and find the cold water, the left handed person get the hot. Switching them around at your house and not warning the right handed guests is lots of fun.
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gaildoreneremaleyc 3 weeks ago#8
my old RCA rocketbook allows you to switch sides easily. I like that because when I read in bed and turn over I can switch to the other hand. I got it online for $15. One of the best Christmas pressies dh got me. -
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swirlyglasses 6 days ago^They’re primary used by artists to keep away pencil smudge,ink stains to the side of the hand,and to keep drawing tablet screens clean of scratches and side hand prints,etc. I have no idea why they would be on this list since they’re made for both hands and smudge isn’t a left hand only problem.
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kims33 3 weeks agoBeing a leftie some of these are so true: 1,2,6,12,16 & 17. I throw a softball, serve volleyball & play tennis right handed. Even though I am a leftie I don’t realize how much I do use my right hand. The funniest thing for me is sometimes I can’t remember which is my left hand.
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andrewl43 3 weeks agoIn 3rd grade I remember having a substitute teacher who stopped class suddenly and asked all of the left handed students to raise their hands. She told us all that they were going to die 9 years earlier than the rest of us (#11)and then continued teaching like nothing happened. I’m pretty sure some of the students were crying.
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karil5 3 weeks agoi am all lefty living in a right handed world. It is amazing how fast I could adjust after having rotator cuff surgery on my left shoulder. For 3 weeks I couldnt use my left hand. I was able to eat soup right handed. I still can put on a pair of socks using only my right hand. It took a little bit of training for me to do it. Ive had to adjust to a lot of things in the righty world. The toughest thing was teaching 2 right handed kids to tie their shoes. I think they still tie shoes left handed
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