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[swatkat]

Five Eight Things You Should Never Do When You Encounter Someone Who Writes With Their Left Hand:

1. Ask them if they write with their left hand.

2. Ask them if they *really* write with their left hand.

3. Ask them why they write with their left hand.

4. Ask them how they write with their left hand.

5. Ask them how they write with their left hand and still manage to have a pretty writing.

6. Make them write with their right hand, and look surprised when they fail to hold the pen properly.

7. Stare.

8. Call another person and proceed to discuss this quaint new thing while the left-handed person in question is writing a really important examination.

Comments

[leiascully.livejournal.com]

I find lefties to be both gauche and sinister.

Hee.

Just kidding! ♥

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

Someday we shall take over the world, you know. We're just waiting for the right, plotting behind your oblivious backs...

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

Right time, I mean. Or rather, *left* time.

[leiascully.livejournal.com]

Waiting for the right what?

My dad's a leftie. Some of my good friends are lefties! Spare me when the revolution comes and I'll attempt to become ambidextrous.

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

Right time. Right time. *Left* time, actually.

My dad's a leftie. Some of my good friends are lefties!

You just broke a jurisimprudence rule.

[leiascully.livejournal.com]

Don't I know it.

[favouriteyear.livejournal.com]

Do you really write with your left hand? :P

*stares*

*crosses no.s2 and 7 off list*

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

We are not amused.

[ms-artisan.livejournal.com]

I think you really should learn to write with your right hand. And if I were there I would stand over you and watch till you were good at it.

*adds number nine to the list and crosses it off*

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

We are not amused.

[ms-artisan.livejournal.com]

hee -- you're very cute when you're cranky.

So--what happened with the Very Important Examination? Did you ace it?

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

Oh, there were many such Very Important Examinations. Every board examination I have sat for (those are the big important ones which have external examiners. some of them even require you to sit for it in a place other than your own school/college) has had such incidents. The one where the examiner actually called his friend from another room and proceeded to STARE at my answer sheet went rather well (NO THANKS TO THE TWO OF THEM), if I may say so myself. *preens*

[favouriteyear.livejournal.com]

Now that is just ridiculous, also for the record, I think lefties are cool to sit next to, I get a lot of writing space!!! XD

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

:: blinks :: Isn't something like 10% of the population left-handed? How have they failed to encounter this phenomenon before?

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

If I had a penny for every time I've heard any one of those, I'd be a very rich person.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

People are still weird about the left-hand thing?

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

Sigh. They are.

[catsma.livejournal.com]

*waves left paw in the air*

I'm another leftie too and people have given me the same "oh, you have nice writing for a lefthander" comment too, with surprised looks on their faces.

My only quirk is liking to sit on the left outside of tables when dining out as I use my fork with my left hand too. Not sure if it's leftie thing but it's the way I was taught to eat by my parents. Someone told me once it's an English thing.

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

*extends left hand for the sekrit left-hander's club shake*

Isn't it IRRITATING? As if left-handed writing = chickenscratch by default. No, I have a very nice writing, thank you very much.

I thought it was an English thing too. Although, I generally use my right hand, in the American way. Because in this part of the world, eating with your left hand in public (unless you're using both hands t o tear bread or something) will get you stares, so I'm conditioned tht way. Actually, I'm somewhat ambidextrous, because I can throw things only with my right hand, but I'll hold the racquet only with my left hand!

[goddesspharo.livejournal.com]

Heh. People are idiots.

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

Word.

[jaybee65.livejournal.com]

I'm right-handed, but I have an odd way of holding my pen when I write (it's closer to the way one holds a calligraphy brush). All attempts by schoolteachers to cure me of this habit failed miserably, and I actually write *extremely* rapidly this way. But it never fails to get stares and comments (and, ironically, questions of "Are you really left-handed?"). For the life of me, I don't know why such a small thing is such a big deal.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Ha! I can relate!

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

Oh, on top being left-handed, I also happen to hold the pen in a really 'odd' way as well, so I can feel your pain! People stare at me even more for that. I had this particularly sadistic English teacher who insisted that I write 'in the normal way' - it was excruciating. I write fast enough like this, and I write pretty like this, so what is the *problem*?

[catsma.livejournal.com]

My first school was a Catholic school run by nuns. Yeah, I know I'm Anglican but this was the only decent school on the island so I went there. Those nuns were holy terrors with their rulers and bamboo canes across the knuckles, let me tell you.

Anyway, when I started writing and it became obvious that I was a leftie (I took after both my parents but was the only kid out of 6 who was a leftie), the nuns started trying to force me to write righthanded. Keep in mind this was the early 60's and nuns could do whatever they wanted..LOL...and so I had all kinds of problems with this. My father got wind of it and went down to the principal's office and raised all kinds of hell about it with the result that they left me alone. I did have to learn how to write well just like all the kids but didn't wind up semi ambidextrous like my father. He went to school in Catholic Boston and was forced to write right handed, along with getting beat up by all the litte Irish Catholic boys as he was Scots Protestant and very outnumbered. To the end of his life, he despised the Kennedy's as a result...LOL