International Left-Handers Day – A Guide for Lefties
Speaking as a leftie, Susan sympathises with all of you who struggle with tin-openers, whose thumbs are mangled by right-handed scissor handles and who are constantly accused of setting the table wrong. Let’s not even mention the ink and pencil smudges our hands were constantly coated in at school.
However, we do also get to bamboozle our opponents when playing tennis or badminton left-handedly.
Because being left-handed is clearly a sign of superiority, we get our very own day to mark it – the 24th International Left-Handers Day falls on 13th August.
We don’t like to blow our own trumpets (too often!) but here are some excellent facts about left-handers and some tools that may make your life from the left a little bit less frustrating.
10 facts about left-handers and left-handedness
- Twins have a strong tendency to have one left-hander
- Left-handed people adjust to seeing underwater easier than their right-handed counterparts
- We tend to be better at tennis, badminton, baseball, fencing, boxing and swimming
- 4 out of the 5 original Apple Mac designers were left-handed
- 25% of Apollo astronauts were left handed, compared to just 10% of the general population
- Lefties tend to be more creative
- 5 of the last 7 U.S Presidents, including Obama himself, are left-handed
We’re in good company too – take a look at this list of famous lefties.
Excellent tools to make left-handed life less frustrating
- Left-handed scissors so we can finally cut a clean line
- Tin-openers, vegetable peelers and knives
- Left-handed Swiss Army knife
- Clocks and watches (yes, we can read them laid out “backwards”)
- Golf clubs
- Left-handed guitars for when you don’t want to play upside-down like Jimi Hendrix
- Left-handed pens
- Notebooks and diaries
- Lefties’ tool set
- Left-handed gardening tools
- Left-handed oven gloves
Have you tried and tested any of these (or other) left-handed products? If so, we’d love to hear from you.
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