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.
HOT ON
Facebook Conversations
154 Responses So Far
- Contributions
- (Page 5 of 8)
-
StacySweaters 9 months agoI’ve complained about every single one of these things. The injustice we face every day is a real pain.
-
- StacySweaters thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is Win
- Azadeh Dadvand The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... and thinks it’s OMG, Win & LOL
- dougs11 The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... and thinks it’s Win & LOL
- Corki Sutherland thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- kassinicholen The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P...
- samirduartes The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P...
- frumac The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... and thinks it’s LOL
- currentlydisconected The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... and thinks it’s Win & LOL
- saami thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is Win & LOL
- karensarlinm thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- nateg6 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- schmoo thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- williamequalityd thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is Fail
- heyitsceee thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- fred294 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- RuPaulus thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- joef20 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- Lorraine O'Connor The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... and thinks it’s LOL & Win
- johns91 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is WTF
- rebeccah19 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- Al2sf thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- yoshinaris thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- michellehutchinsw thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- Hannah G. The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P...
- hannah7408 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- mail.yahoo.com readers just made The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... hotter
- chloew6 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- anitar7 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is Win
-
dangerouslytalented 9 months agoAnother reason for America to join the 20th century and get into the metric system.
-
- midl thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- kelseygraceh thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- Jason D. thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- julieannec thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- originalgriz thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is Win
- jessicae11 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- jenniferm54 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is WTF
- MarcusMunch thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- nationalreview.com readers just made The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... hotter
- kaliweftie8 The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... and thinks it’s Win
- robyns4 The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... and thinks it’s LOL
- redp The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P...
- tarab15 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is Fail
- fultonkid14 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- goldiec The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P...
- Nekomaneki thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- ladivalatinat thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is starting to get hot on StumbleUpon Stumble It
- Laurie N thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is Win
- robm28 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is Win
- mcbr23 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is Win & LOL
- davethomasb The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P...
- mail.yahoo.net readers just made The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... hotter
- glennef thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is Fail
- cassiep7 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- rscottwoods thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is Win
- kupkup thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
-
-
A.Leigh a month agoFor some reason, it seems like no matter how often this problem comes up, no one ever thinks about it until everyone has already sat down and gotten comfortable. All the men in my family are left-handed, and so is my boyfriend’s brother, yet any dinner with either of our families tends to result in this problem. I still haven’t figured out why everyone forgets so quickly.
-
-
garykokaiselj 9 months ago#2 Well the right-handers suffer when they flip the page to write on the back side of the notebook
-
- hannahelizabethk thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- crystlgem thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- mail.live.com readers just made The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... hotter
-
- bereniceg thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- thaisq thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is Win
- joshs18 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- traffic.outbrain.com readers just made The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... hotter
- kathyroosg thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is Win & LOL
- Kenny Kane thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is Win
- amym33 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- kendram5 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- joelk9 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- marykp thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- Allison McCann thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- wills19 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is Win
- rosieb2 The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P...
- sumaj thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- billyc7 The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... and thinks it’s Win
- hylar thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- tumblr.com readers just made The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... hotter
- danb30 thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is Win
- rachel maria thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL
- funerealwaif thinks The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed P... is LOL & Win
-
A866 10 months agoMost left-handed people I know (including myself) mostly conform to the right-handed world. I’ve adapted myself to using my right hand to open bottles/cans, to create a way of writing which prevents smudging, to use my right hand effectively in most sports and learning to write somewhat okay with my right hand. (I find it easier to use my mouse with my right hand).
-
-
miguelangeld 10 months agoCome on people, how could they miss the annoying part of writing in front of class on the chalk/white board
-
-
-
-
-
skydivingcoroner 10 months agoOh my God. I just tested #5 by writing with both hands, and sure enough, my right hand wrote smoother. Like a caveman, but smoother. Another reason we southpaws get the brunt of the deal! Also, there is now a piece of paper at my desk that says “beef” over and over again.
-
-
-
-
llemmingtron 10 months ago#5 REALLY!?!? Finally it solves the riddle of why pens never work for me! I thought it was just bad luck but NO! It’s my HAND!!
-
-
-
stephanieb41 10 months agoA very important one is missing in this smatphone age : by default on smartphones, the horizontal view is made by turning the screen from right to left, thus the button on Iphone comes under the right thumb. No screen falling from the left with button on the left for lefties
-
-
A.Leigh a month agoThe screen will turn whichever way you turn the phone. If you have an Android that doesn’t have physical buttons, it does put the on-screen ones on the right, but with an iPhone, you can just turn it to the right and bam, left-handed button. At least, I know it works on the iPhone 5. No clue about the older ones.
-
-
-
-
-








Special Reactions
Your Reaction?
React with an animated GIF!
READY. SET. REACT!
GET STARTED