Left-Handed Doing Things Right March 15, 2009
Posted by Conrad Hubbard in : The Chip , trackbackLast Thursday, the CCP North America (White Wolf) office held a company leisure event where a bunch of us went bowling together. One of the girls I work with, Jess, was bowling with her left hand. It made me pause for a moment, as I realized that even though I am left-handed, I was bowling with my right hand. This fact is something I hadn’t given much more than a passing and brief consideration before. Weird.
I write with my left hand, and I draw, eat, shave, drink, change TV channels, thumb type on my iPhone, all with my left hand. I even remember having trouble in early school because one of my teachers wanted to try to make me use my right hand and I couldn’t.
And yet… There are so many things I do right-handed. There a so many times that I have simply been taught to do something by a right-handed person and managed to mimic them. There are other times where certain devices are made for right-handed people, and I just have gotten used to using them that way. Even if a left-hander version comes along, I am already used to the “other way” now. I use a computer mouse with my right hand, roll a bowling ball right-handed, etc.
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