Left Handed Knives And Scissors

david39

My wife is left-handed and she complains that ATMs are all for right handed people ( I believe there are now some left handed ones). Also the usual phone cases are right handed as are notebooks where the writing is done only on the right-hand page
I didn't t believe her when she said there were left handed pencils but true. A bit of a novelty really but, if you hold a normal pencil in your left hand, the writing on the side of it is upside down! - try it! Left handed pencils have the writing the other way up, if you can find one. lol

Linda32

I'm pretty much the same as Yellowbear.

We do live in a right handed world. Ring Binders and bound note books are right handed.

For anyone interested who is right handed. Find a bound note book or a book, turn it upside down and try to imagine writing.

Rules are another thing. The left hand is over the numbers on the left IYSWIM.

frosty

mumf wrote: »

In fairness,I have always coped with tin openers,scissors and such.However,as a lad I had to learn to fish right handed,as there were no left handed reels back then.It was hard.Same when I started shooting - I could not afford a left handed stock.

I have never fished or done shooting so yes I can see problems arising.
I remember being at school and being made to write right handed thankfully they don't do that anymore.
I think because the majority of everyday tasks are geared for right handed people then you have to manage.
If you buy left handed knives and forks do you have to carry them with you? .
I can't knit,I would need a left handed knitter to teach me.
My son plays golf even though he's left handed he can play with right handed golf clubs.

babs_103

I'm right handed and taught my left handed DD to knit by sitting in front of her and she just copied me.

frosty

babs_103 wrote: »

I'm right handed and taught my left handed DD to knit by sitting in front of her and she just copied me.

What a good idea,I never thought of that :rotfl:

LadyDee

yellowbear wrote: »

I find this fascinating.
I'm a lefty. Fork in left hand, knife in right, unless I'm buttering bread then knife is in left hand. But! If I'm peeling potatoes then knife is in right hand!
If slicing bread/veg then knife is in left hand.
Spoon in left hand.
Scissors in right hand - can't use left handed ones.
I have a butterfly tin opener that I use right handed.
Playing cards are held in my left hand.

Off to check out the left handed shop.

My friend is left-handed for everything except ironing.

Eenymeeny

I'm left handed and as others have said, usually I find that I've adapted to what is available. I do find though, that saucepans and ladles often have the pouring lips on the wrong side for me and measuring jugs are difficult to read and have to be turned when filling...

kerri_gt

babs_103 wrote: »

I'm right handed and taught my left handed DD to knit by sitting in front of her and she just copied me.

I'm a lefty but when my mum taught me to knit a little when I was a child she could only teach me right handed. TBH it made no difference to me and I didn't find it odd as I didn't know any better.

I write left handed but use a mouse right handed, can't use a left handed tin opener for toffee and played guitar right handed as I naturally found I wanted my dominant hand to manage the fret part.

People say I'm clumsy at times but I do wonder if it's perhaps because so many things we don't really notice are designed for rightys.

Well_Preserved

My daughter's left handed but had to learn to play violin right handed. I guess you can't have bows going in the opposite direction in an orchestra for fear of poking someone! We did buy scissors from everything left handed when she was doing sewing at school but I don't know what she uses now. She did find a left handed cheque book useful, though, for the same reasons Linda32 says above. Otherwise you have to tilt your writing material to a stran ge angle so that you can see what you're writing. I know most lefties manage very well, but it is a right handers' world.