Happy Lefthanders Day!

My grandmom wished me a belated 'Happy Left Handers Day' today. Ignorant ol' me did not know that there was a special day ear marked for the southpaws before this!

Here's some trivia that I discovered on left handers on the web:

• Sinistrophobia is the fear of left-handedness.


• While many people are left handed, very few are 100% left handed. For example, many Left handers golf and bat right handed. On the other hand, there is a high percentage of righties who are 100% right-handed.


• Lefties are also called "southpaws". The term was coined in baseball to describe a left handed pitcher.


• Tuesdays are Lefties luck day.


• Only about 10% of the population is left handed.


• During the 1600's, people thought left handers were witches and warlocks.


• International Left Hander's Day was first celebrated on August 13, 1976. It was started by Lefthander's International.


• It is believed that all polar bears are left handed.


• There is a rumor that octopuses have but one right hand. Scientists are diligently studying this.


• Everyone is a Left Hander in Left Hand, West Virginia.

I also discovered this image that depicts the quintessential left hander, courtesy the lefthanders club (http://www.lefthandersday.com/posters.html

So all of you who:

• found using scissors a nightmare (they are all designed for right handers)


• had to struggle to get used to the mouse (the left handed mouse is not that easy to use)


• were told it was bad dining etiquette to hold the knife and the spoon in hands opposite to what is the accepted norm


• found it difficult to synchronize with the aerobics class where every exercise starts off with the right hand/leg


• found it extremely tedious to use desks in school (they never have special ones for left handers!)


• were the object of ridicule in the formative years at school and later the object of admiration coz you were different from the rest


• are creative thanks to having a more active right brain that the left

Here's wishing you a Happy Left Handers Day!