This, my friends, is a post about the plight of the left-handed people. It is a result of a conversation I had today with hubby. It all started when we got home from the driving range and I was telling hubs about when my dad switched from right-handed clubs to left-handed clubs. He was probably a lefty, but when he was learning to write in the 1930′s, he was forced to be right-handed (at least when he wrote). In all other aspects, he favored his left hand, i.e. throwing a ball, eating, etc. Anyway, hubs is a lefty and was talking about how he can’t imagine using his right hand for certain things, but that we live in a right-handed world. So many things are made for right-handed people. I was unaware because I am right-handed and asked hubs to give some examples. I know certain things you can ask or change for a lefty such as golf clubs and guitars. I was astonished at all the things hubs started listing: scissors, cars (radios & a/c is easier to use for righty’s), place settings, most doors, spiral notebooks, and the list goes on. The most interesting to me is how most people shake with their right hands. Hubs especially doesn’t like this because that is his weak hand and some people judge you by a strong or weak handshake.
I never thought how difficult it must be for all the lefty’s out there in a world full of right-handed people. It might not be up there with racism, ageism, or sexism, but surely it’s an -ism, right? Is it leftism?? I just think of all the things I take for granted. Poor hubs will just have to somehow find a way to make it through another day. 
