I'm a lefty, never dated anyone who is a lefty though....

[Ariadne]

being a lefty, I look at the world and every day situations in a much different way than 90% of you do...Now I'm wondering, what it would be like to date someone who sees the world the same way

 

I'm left-handed and I don't know what you are talking about.

[getchoo]

I'm a lefty and I was on a bike trip this summer and noticed the way people stood with their bikes waiting at lights and stuff could for the most part determine which hand was dominate.

 

As far as dating, I don't care either way. Though it would be cool to date a fellow lefty.

[btc8]

I was thinking about this last night. I'm a lefty, male, 28 years old.

 

In my dating career, I have never ever dated a left-handed female!

 

Just so you righty's know, being a lefty, I look at the world and every day situations in a much different way than 90% of you do.

 

Now I'm wondering, what it would be like to date someone who sees the world the same way, but I guess I'll never know. I'm in an amazing relationship, with a righty!

 

There's really no correlation between how you look at things and what hand you write with. It doesn't matter which side of your brain you predominately use either, as certain processes are hemispherically selfish anyway. Besides, how can you, a lefty, know that I, a righty, look at the world differently than you?

 

Statistically, it also makes sense you've never dated a left-handed woman before, as somewhere like 1 in 10 is left-handed.

[Storyrider]

I don't think being a lefty is a big deal for kids today--my 9 yr old is one, like me. These days they take left-handedness into account in the classroom, whereas in the 70s when I was growing up the lefty had to adjust.

 

I remember in elementary school the left-handed scissors had these green rubbery handles, and there were only two pairs of them in the classroom but more than two left-handed kids!! We had to make a grab for them or suffice with right-handed scissors, which never cut properly.

 

Also, the above passage from Wiki gets it all wrong. Lefties hook their hands to avoid smudging the page. It can never be a mirror image of right-handedness because English goes left to right, so your hand drags across what you've just written. So you either learn to hook or you get a hand covered in pencil lead and a B minus in penmanship.

[Ariadne]

Lefties hook their hands to avoid smudging the page. It can never be a mirror image of right-handedness

 

I do it because is the only normal way to write with that hand.

[Ariadne]

It can never be a mirror image of right-handedness because English goes left to right, so your hand drags across what you've just written.

 

I wonder if my ex the Israeli hooks the hand to write from right to left with his right hand. I don't remember.

[Storyrider]

I wonder if my ex the Israeli hooks the hand to write from right to left with his right hand. I don't remember.

Yeah, good question. I don't know how Israelis get around the smudging problem.

[Ariadne]

Yeah, good question. I don't know how Israelis get around the smudging problem.

 

Actually, I think he does. Funny thing, I think I'd write like a right-handed in Hebrew. Then it'd be a mirror image.

[Storyrider]

I grew up in Texas as a spacey, left-handed, four-eyed Yankee Jew with a name no one could pronounce.

 

This stuff builds character.

[Ariadne]

Yeah, good question. I don't know how Israelis get around the smudging problem.

 

I just called the ex to ask him if he hooked the hand on top of the paper when he wrote Hebrew like I did.

 

And he said, no, I've never seen anything like that in my life. You hold the paper completely upside down.

[underpants]

I don't hook, and I don't smudge.

[Storyrider]

I don't hook, and I don't smudge.

You're on a higher plane than the rest of us, dear unders. How do you do it?

[trubella]

I'm a lefty... :bunny:and I've only dated righties Never even thought about it before

 

same here, im lefthanded but only have dated righties, my current beau is a righty. sometimes he makes jokes about me being 'backwards' when i do certain things:rolleyes:

[Ariadne]

This stuff builds character.

 

..........

[underpants]

You're on a higher plane than the rest of us, dear unders. How do you do it?

 

Not really, or at least not in a while.

 

I tilt my paper to the right and probably hold the writing utensil a little higher so the only part of my hand that rests is well below the writing line. My handwriting I think, is rather vertical, with not much slant. However, I try to make up for that by mixing cursive and print and the occasional squiggle.

 

The left handed scissor story brought back memories. Who knew cutting would be so hard? I don't know if I could use a pair of left handed scissors now.

 

You know Jimmy Hendrix was left handed and solved the guitar issue by turning it upside down? I tried this, but apparently there is a little more to it.

[Storyrider]

You know Jimmy Hendrix was left handed and solved the guitar issue by turning it upside down? I tried this, but apparently there is a little more to it.

I think I remembered that. Paul McCartney is left-handed also and had a left-handed base guitar.

[underpants]

Paul McCartney is left-handed also and had a left-handed base guitar.

 

...and he is available.

 

Hmmmm.

[zicke]

I don't think being a lefty is a big deal for kids today--my 9 yr old is one, like me. These days they take left-handedness into account in the classroom, whereas in the 70s when I was growing up the lefty had to adjust.

 

I remember in elementary school the left-handed scissors had these green rubbery handles, and there were only two pairs of them in the classroom but more than two left-handed kids!! We had to make a grab for them or suffice with right-handed scissors, which never cut properly.

 

Also, the above passage from Wiki gets it all wrong. Lefties hook their hands to avoid smudging the page. It can never be a mirror image of right-handedness because English goes left to right, so your hand drags across what you've just written. So you either learn to hook or you get a hand covered in pencil lead and a B minus in penmanship.

 

I got a C in penmanship but never hooked my hand to have penmanship like a righthander, and I also didn't and still don't smudge my paper because I didn't/don't hook. I write like a righthander does in the sense of the way I hold my pen, but other than that, my penmanship is very pretty, but no one can read it but me. I was always insulted by my C because I felt my handwriting was prettier than what the Teacher was trying to teach me--even if she couldn't read it.

 

Oh, and Lindsey Buckingham is left handed as well.

[Storyrider]

Oh, and Lindsey Buckingham is left handed as well.

I love Lindsey Buckingham!