The 18 Worst Things For Left-Handed People

[raccoon]

I can no longer be silent on the daily oppression of the left-handed community!posted on July 16, 2012, at 11:01 a.m.

You gotta see this if you're a lefty. When I was a kid, we didn't even HAVE left-handed scissors.

1. Spiral notebooks.


Hurts the side of your hand. The worst are the five-subject with the extra big rings.

2. Writing in a three-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.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/the-18-worst-things-for-left-handed-people

[NV Whino]

1. No one ever thought of turning them?

You know, so the rings are on the right.

[Ron Obvious]

3. At least we don't have to use fountain pens any longer

When I was in school, ballpoint pens were believed to be vulgar by our teacher and we could only use fountain pens. Not a problem for me, but my lefty best friend sitting next to me would always be trailing his hand over the newly written text, smudge the ink and get shouted at.

At least the school was progressive enough to allow him to even be a lefty, I suppose, though the fountain pen requirement seems very old-fashioned to me now.

It made me think about right-to-left writing systems such as Hebrew, and I wondered if the ancient Jewish tribes had a larger percentage of left-handers than we do today, though - I confess - not for very long, for childhood was full of wonders and freedom in those days.

[NightWatcher]

4. I guess they should've learned to write the right way

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Three ring binders are just horrible for anyone, both left handed and right handed.

I cannot stand those things.

[dr.strangelove]

6. I hear you on the spiral notebooks, but the binders

I always just took out the paper and put it in when done writing.

[IronLionZion]

7. The tiny desk situation is bad for everyone

but especially bad for lefties. Some of my classes had long tables with plenty of space, and some were in computer labs. The lecture halls were mainly for the liberal arts courses.

[RebelOne]

8. As a lefty, I have experienced all those annoyances.

Once I bought a pair of left-handed scissors, but I couldn't use them because I had adapted to using right-handed scissors.

[raccoon]

9. I have too--out of necessity, as I expect you did too. nt