The Left Handed Admiration Thread

[SunsetBengal]

(08-10-2018, 11:21 AM)Benton Wrote:

I've spent most of my life with a pen or charcoal stick in my hand, and I usually have the giant smear.

Outside of writing, though, I do more things right handed. Throw a ball, shoot a gun, etc. My dad, also left handed, did everything with his right, so I guess I followed suit.

I am also semi-ambidextrous.  I throw a ball, shoot long guns right handed, but eat, write, throw darts, shoot a pistol left handed.  Some things are about equally articulate in either hand, like swing an axe, or baseball bat.  However, that time I was learning how to play bass guitar?  Absolutely left handed.

(08-10-2018, 03:39 PM)McC Wrote: When I was a little kid, first learning to write, whatever age that is, I had a teacher who would take the pencil out of my left hand, smack the back of my hand with a ruler, put the pencil in my right.  She'd walk away, back to the left hand the pencil would go.  I walked around with welts on the back of my hand.

One night at dinner, my dad asked me what happened to my hand.  I told him.  He went ape shit.  He took off work the next day, took me to school.  Walked me to my classroom, stood in the doorway, told the mean old bat that God decided I'd be a lefty and he'd be damned if some old cow was gonna overrule God.

My father made a similar stance, at my elementary school.