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Posted: 12.09.2002 Lefties do it right?
While holding a pencil this afternoon...for some reason I was magically taken back to the days of Big Chief Tablets, jumbo pencils, and fresh pencil-sharpener smell... (I was very saddened when looking for an image to learn that they quit making Big Chief Tablets in 2001, by the way.)
But while on my graphics hunt, I came across several sites for left-handed students that sold "left-handed pencils". Now my mom is a south-paw. She had several left-handed special tools like scissors, kitchen gadgets, etc. I even learned how to iron and twirl a baton left-handed (and still do so to this day), even though I'm right-handed. But pencils? They're...just a glorified stick... Does it really make a difference, because that's a new one for me! Just out of curiousity, are you a lefty? also makes me think of the smell of a fresh box of crayons!! ¤ ¤ credit: deb | 12.09.02 at 04:33 PM | link-oh the smell of paste brings me back! ¤ ¤ credit: jenny-poo | 12.09.02 at 04:35 PM | link-All these memories, and I'm going to have to make a Target run now! ¤ ¤ credit: robyn | 12.09.02 at 04:37 PM | link-The smell of paste Jenny? Don't you mean the taste of paste? mwuahahaha ¤ ¤ credit: statia | 12.09.02 at 04:41 PM | link-glorified stick? Yes. But take a look at your pencil in your right hand. (*tap tap *waiting) you see the writing "right side up". Put the same pencil in your left hand. The writing is upside down. I think that's all the difference it is. Just the print on the correct side up. I'm a lefty for writing but everything else I do is right-handed. It's the companies small way of making us lefties be a part of the loop. :) ¤ ¤ credit: susan | 12.09.02 at 04:50 PM | link-You know what's so weird. Daric is left-handed and all the pilots in his unit (about 8 of them) are all left-handed, too... ¤ ¤ credit: Ashley | 12.09.02 at 06:09 PM | link-I remember from my (slightly) younger days I was taught to baton-twirl using both hands. Ok, I couldn't quite get to grips with the "twirl in right hand, throw up, spin round with leg in air, catch in left and continue twirling" bit, but.... Aren't people that are left handed meant to be more 'creative' and the right handers amongst us meant to be more practical? ¤ ¤ credit: Richy C. | 12.09.02 at 06:34 PM | link-I can go with both hands. ;) Actually, as a kid, I tried reallllllly hard to master the art of writing with my left, but I could never get it down. I believe to this day that's what kept me out of the CIA. ¤ ¤ credit: dick | 12.09.02 at 07:45 PM | link-i'm left handed but do the things that other people usually have to teach you with my right hand, like throwing, batting, shooting a basketball. with my left hand i seem to do things that i learned how to do on my own, like writing, eating, playing pool, shooting a gun. it's amazing the influence a teacher can have on the way you learn to do something. ¤ ¤ credit: matt | 12.09.02 at 07:50 PM | link-I'm a southpaw, and just for clarity, the trick to writing left handed is to write with your arm parallel to the page, rather than horizontal with your right hand (try it). While a left handed pencil isn't that big a deal, I would like to find a lefty trackball! ¤ ¤ credit: buher | 12.09.02 at 08:52 PM | link-I write right handed (say that 10 times), but do other things the lefty way. I have to thank my dad who is left handed, tho I'm not sure how who gets what, my middle son is a lefty. ¤ ¤ credit: donna | 12.09.02 at 10:36 PM | link-I'm a lefty. Although I can do pretty much everything ambidextrously, my dominant paw is south. ¤ ¤ credit: Christine | 12.10.02 at 01:47 AM | link-
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