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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dorothyj2 4 days ago19. Right-handed people will never understand..
It’s just funny for lefties to see that other lefties feel their “pain.” We’re grown now so we know how to compensate but we did have to deal with spiral notebooks and 3-ring binders. We probably die sooner bc we have to deal with the right-handed world. :) -
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Emeraldgal28 5 days agoI’m a lefty but i get along fine with righty and doing righty styled stuff…all except for writing…but for arabic language,the lefties win….its right to left…hahaha
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Rilig a week ago
I tried to reply to this eariler, so if I’m repeating myself, sorry. The provide source link is broken. Here is the correct link (http://buywacom.com.au/products/accessories/various/smudgeguard-tablet-glove.html) plus the two-finger version (http://buywacom.com.au/products/accessories/various/smudgeguard-tablet-glove-2-new.html) Sincerely, a fellow Lefty.
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rebekahs10 a week agoright handed here…..but i agree that this is a very right handed world lol….hence the reason the person who said “left handed people are smarter than everyone else”…..then went on to prove that it is statistically true lol
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Ahsayuni a week ago
Uhm excuse me, I’m right handed and I still have some of these problems? How is pencil dust on your hand a left handed problem? THe right hand still runs over drawings and words on paper, too… And isn’t it easier to have the cup holder on the right side for lefties? While holding the wheel with your dominant hand, you can grab a cup with your right hand. Holding a cup isn’t hard…
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jodyer a week agoI’m ambidextrous, but use my left hand a bit more then my right. My elementary school was anal about getting me to write the “correct” way with my right hand. I flat out refused to conform to their ways. What is odd about me is that in baseball, I’ve always played right handed. I am pretty decent at playing basball. I played catcher, first base, and on occasion, I played center field.
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markh49 2 weeks agoI am 61 years old and have been strongly left-handed my entire life. What do I have to say about this list? These are entirely “first world problems!” Video game controllers? Car cup holders? Credit card machines? When was the last time someone was lynched, refused housing, denied the opportunity to vote, or went hungry because they are left-handed? Regardless of which and you prefer, let’s get real folks!
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sherals 6 days agoLove your comment…My brother and I are in our 50’s and both left handed. The hardest part for me was watching my little brother get spanked every time he used his left hand. The only thing I do with my left is eat and write, I can eat and write with my right, but growing up in a right hand world I am ambidextrous. My poor brother is a true lefty all the way in everything to this day. I put my hand under the lines to write and never travel over written words. I could feed my baby and me at the same time. I hold my chop sticks in the left hand, while holding the fork for the salad in the right. I get told that it is so cool that I can be so coordinated to do this, and curious stares. I think it’s funny and handy! And lefties always get to call shotgun at the dinning table. Who started it that Left is wrong in the first place?
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