Lefties Have Rights, Too

[Raffine]

Laurel's thread made me a bit curious as to how many other posters here are left-handed.

My grandmother always told me (the only leftie grandchild) God makes his favorites left-handed because it makes us easier for him to pick out in a crowd. 

[Snivelly]

There is also a category called mixed-handedness, in which people will be able to perform some tasks with the left and some with the right.  My older daughter has this, and when it came time to teach her how to write, she couldn't pick a hand (she had always colored with whichever grabbed the crayons first), so I picked the right to make it easier for me. 

I was always placed next to my left-handed brother at dinner, so I can eat with either hand easily now.

[RCMerchant]

 I eat with my right,yet I pick my nose with my left,so it works out pretty darn good. 

[JaseSF]

While I'm right-handed, I definitely use my left hand quite a bit too. My computer mouse is placed to my left and I'm most comfortable with it there.  Nearly anyone else who uses my computer insists on moving it to their right side. I also use both hands, whichever one is closest to the object, whenever I paint something.

[Trevor]

 

RC, that was a good one. 

As a rightie, I think I am 'mixed handed' too as there are things that I can do with my left that are almost impossible for me to do with my right, like turn pages, for example.

I also wear my watch on my right wrist, which is supposed to indicate that  I am a leftie: when I got my first watch, I put it on my right wrist and no one asked why, so I left it there, thinking that my right wrist was the place. 

[dean]

I'm a leftie, and quite proud of it.  I can do some things both hands, tennis, billiards, that kind of thing, and I bat right handed, but for writing and throwing it's left hand all the way.

Though my handwriting be crap
My words smudged.
I shall endure the lefty way
Or forever be shunned.

Or something like that.  I'm in an odd mood.

[Ash]

I am right-handed for everything except shooting and fishing.

When I used to shoot trap and skeet with my dad, I always shot left-handed.
Probably because I'm left-eye dominant.

I have perfect vision in my left eye.
But so-so vision in my right.

I also fish left-handed.
I cast the line in and hold the rod with my left hand and reel with my right.
(that's left-handed fishing isn't it?  Or do I have it the other way around?)

[felgekarp]

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous, what, come on, someone had to do it 

[raj]

Very much a righty.  Very much left brained too

[Yaddo 42]

Right handed, but I also do certain things with my left. Brush my teeth, cut up food, turn pages. I think I do more of my driving with my left hand.

My dad was left-handed, but like many people his age, he was retrained to be right-handed. He shot right-handed since he was right eye dominant. My sister is a rightie but is left eye dominant. Once, he made me go around all day doing everything left-handed, gave me a bit of perspective on how the world is geared toward righties.

[Scott]

I'm right-handed.

When I was younger playing baseball I was a very good switch hitter during my teen years.  I started switch hitting when I was very young and became very good at it between 14-17 years old.  Pete Rose was one of my favorites because of his switch hitting.

[raj]

Yaddo42, that happened to my grandmother too, circa 1920 Britian.  Must be hard to be a lefty forced to use the right hand.

[Torgo]

I throw and write left handed.

However, I  use right handed scissors and play a right handed bass. 

[Shadow]

I do everything right-handed. The only thing the left does marginally better is type, but I think that's a result of playing the guitar and developing some dexterity in those fingers.

[Scott]

Marriage can solve the right/left controversy.