This time last year there was a world wide Left-handers' Day. Not mourn what sort of press it got (maybe none) Because I can find no sign of such "an event for 2010. However, it's an interesting subject, so I Thought I'd talk lefties this week, Given about 13 per cent of the population are "right in Their Minds." Biology reminder: the right side of your brain Controls the left side of your body.
Our youngest child is left-handed. From a very early age was her favored left side. Thankfully, These Days, we are Enlightened Enough to Know NOT TO Thurs try change the way a wee brain is wired in vain regard 'That, as me know, in Generations past it was a Different Story. I do feel sorry for all poor wee hmmmm what about Ken were forced-to-use Their right hand by the Teachers of the day.
Mind you, it must Have Been pretty hard for left-handers Thurs write with a fountain pen, the ink smudging As They went along. Hence the Curled up hand thing I recall the kids in my class doing, Thu Avoid making a mess.
Things not have changed. The free world is now Ruled by left-handers. Barack Obama and David Cameron, apparently, are lefties. America's Oval Office must be set up with lefties in mind Because the place Seems Thurs Attract Them, with Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, and Bill Clinton all left-handed.
They Beat Their left-handed opposition to get there, too, in the form of John McCain, Ross Perot and Bob Dole. Russia's Mikhail Gorbachev, I think, is girls on lefty - and Not Just in at his politics.
Even Presidents must get annoyed with the right-handed world. It's not something you really prizes without too much until you've seen Thurs Have to COPE with it. I saw my little person awfully Struggle with Scissors as a preschooler and was the Grateful kindy Provided left-handed Scissors Thurs ease her Frustration. I promptly bought some for home.
A quick look is a left-handers' shop website Makes Me REALISE You Can go a long way left. While the Need for things like Scissors, pens and Cutlery is understandable, there are some unusual items Rather, It Seems, to a righty like me, in the form of clocks That spin the time anti-Clockwise, and Diaries That open Backwards. There is left-handed sports and musical equipment, too.
My lovely lefty picked up a hockey stick on the other day and hit it the wrong way round for an Entire 20 minutes before declaring she'd definitely like to play hockey "when she is older. So I'll be looking for a left-handed hockey stick in a few years.
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