It's International Lefthanders Day.
Supposedly, you people make up seven to ten percent of the world population.
So, enjoy your fringe status and have a great day!
If I were to have asked my old granny why there isn't a righthanders day, I'm pretty sure she would have said, "Why, every day is righthanders day, darlin'."
The Daughter is a left-hander, and her oldest son is ambidextrous. Dunno where it comes from.
ReplyDeleteThis is far too sinister to be a holiday.
ReplyDelete*smack*
Sorry.
Veeshir Vact: my brother and sister are lefties. When I was very young, my father took me to get a baseball glove and he asked if I was right or left handed.
I pantomimed throwing a ball and decided I was a righty.
I always wonder what would happen if I said left.
And who decided that is a holiday? Seriously?
ReplyDeleteI say it's a completely bogus thing, not a real one like International Talk Like A Pirate Day. And I speak as a left hander myself. I never asked for a BS "holiday."
Don't be so modest. Assert your left-handed privilege!
DeleteI'll be celebrating by... oh, damn. It's already the next day over here.
ReplyDeleteI'm an ambidextrous lefty. Writing and using tools left. Golf, baseball, batting and axework right. Shooting left. Cricket I bowl left and bat right. Only one in my family so afflicted.
ReplyDeleteWhen my righthanded son was doing his basic army training and got to live grenade throwing, he ended up with the pin in his right hand and the live grenade in his left.
The instructor in the pit with him told him that he was definitely not to swap hands and to throw lefthanded. He was called girl thrower after that. Sort of like Obama doing the first pitch like a Granny.
Hilarious story about your son and the hand grenade! Thanks for sharing.
DeleteI showed to a friend who left handed, and he responded:
ReplyDelete"We are the only ones in our right minds. Everyone else is just nuts."