The world is designed for right-handed people. You probably know lefties need special scissors, but did you know knives are right-handed? So are pencil sharpeners, wristwatches, fishing reels, can openers, cameras and sewing machines. Even the computer mouse you’re using right now was probably designed to fit your right hand. Roughly ten percent of the human population is left handed. My sister is one of them. When she was a toddler it was obvious that she preferred using her left hand. Daddy thought he could at least teach her to use a spoon with her right. Eventually all his hard work paid off. She would pick up food with her left hand, deposit it in the spoon in her right hand, move the spoon to her mouth and use her left hand to shovel the food in. August 13 is Left-handers Day, a day to celebrate great lefties like da Vinci, Tolstoy, Reagan, Beethoven and my sister.
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