The Left (handed, that is)

[Guest]

I'm left shouldered. Does that mean anything? (That's the shoulder I hang my handbag on. )

Loulou, I'm glad you mentioned that. I am right-handed btw. I hang my bag on my left shoulder too and simply cannot keep it up on my right, very weird. It's often heavy due to work stuff and I wish I could rotate (have thoughts of being off kilter as I get older), but the straps just slip off the right shoulder (I can keep it on the right if I walk like Quasimodo). P.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... I also tend to dress to the left too. Gauche

As the folks to the left of that street in Coventry once said when Lady Godiva made her famous side-saddle ride, “Hurrah for our side!”

 

[cloudy]

I'm left shouldered. Does that mean anything? (That's the shoulder I hang my handbag on. )

Me too!

I think we're the weirdos among right-handed women. Most use their right shoulder.

 

[Liar]

[plug alert]Just remembered something... I wrote this poem about my southpaw-ness a few weeks ago... Read and weep.[/plug alert]

#L

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Right handed.

Left legged.


Ed

Same here.

 

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[rydia57]

Prompted by a couple of answers on Perdita's thread on sentence diagramming (which I certainly don't remember from 1950s UK schooling) I started to wonder (always dangerous). How many of us are left-handed?

Me, for one. The_Fool, minsue and Liar admitted the aberration, too.

How many others? Is writing erotica a left-handed thing? The world holds its breath . . .

Alex

Hi,

Lefty here. In my right brain, and got coffee cups to prove it.... the creative mind really excels in lefties I also read that we're more perverted than righties... alas we are also more clumsy...lol My sister said most people in high society say that eating left handed it really cool, that why even some righties do it....go figure! August 13 was Nat'l Lefthanders day!

 

[nushu2]

Has anybody ever tried this: Put one hand over one eye and read something challenging (anything by Perdita would be fine). Then, do the same with other eye. Did you understand the words differently?

Righty, BTW, but I lead with my left in motorcycle accidents.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

. . . the creative mind really excels in lefties I also read that we're more perverted than righties... alas we are also more clumsy...

I wish I could believe that first part.

As for being more perverted, I couldn’t say. The society that I move in is not a true cross-section

The clumsy bit is correct. I am forever tripping over the leaf designs in my rug.

...My sister said most people in high society say that eating left handed it really cool, that why even some righties do it....

Except when I have a whole side of a table to myself I have learned to eat with my right hand. Banging elbows together can cause accidents with forks, or make messes with soup.

...August 13 was Nat'l Lefthanders day...

No doubt it was advertised on the sides of coffee cups facing the drinker when the handle points right.

 

[Belegon]

pretty much the boring righty here...

I've tried batting lefty and I have more power from that side(don't know why) but I can barely make contact and strike out far to much to do it in actual games..

 

[Alex De Kok]

Thanks, guys and gals. Twenty-seven responses, probably slewed because people might skip the thread if they're right-handed. Given that, for ten of the twenty-seven to be lefties and two ambidextrous is interesting. I remember reading (somewhere) that in the Western world, about ten percent of the population are left-handed, whereas in South-East Asia it's about ninety percent. Interesting statistic. I do remember working in a four-man team once where three of us were lefties.

Interesting, too, on the bag-shouldering side the ladies opt for. In my not-so-far-back student days I used a soft briefcase type bag to carry my books and papers around. It had a shoulder strap and no way could I get it to ride on my left shoulder, unless I carried the bag on my right hip, which wasn't always convenient. Right shoulder or either-side hand grip it had to be. My wife, now, carries her handbag on either shoulder, as it suits her. Ah, well.

Thanks again to everyone who's chipped in here. I doubt that we've actually proved anything, but hey!

Alex

[Edited to change total - if anyone else votes, I'm leaving it!]

 

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[Alex De Kok]

Statistically speaking, lefties more prone to be perverts?

Artistic perverts, please!

Alex

 

[Guest]

I write with my tail. My claws were poking oles in the keyboard.

 

[matriarch]

Loulou, I'm glad you mentioned that. I am right-handed btw. I hang my bag on my left shoulder too and simply cannot keep it up on my right, very weird. It's often heavy due to work stuff and I wish I could rotate (have thoughts of being off kilter as I get older), but the straps just slip off the right shoulder (I can keep it on the right if I walk like Quasimodo). P.

Me too.
Strange innit?
And I also deal cards with my left hand, from my right. Can't do it the other way at all.

 

[LadyJeanne]

Loulou, I'm glad you mentioned that. I am right-handed btw. I hang my bag on my left shoulder too and simply cannot keep it up on my right, very weird. It's often heavy due to work stuff and I wish I could rotate (have thoughts of being off kilter as I get older), but the straps just slip off the right shoulder (I can keep it on the right if I walk like Quasimodo). P.

I have this exact same issue. After years of carrying heavy laptop bags, I realized I was sitting around unconsciously massaging my left shoulder all the the time. I finally gave up and started wearing backpacks.