Last Friday I was running a training programme with 9 participants - 4 of whom were left handed. I am also left handed - which meant left handers were in the majority. In all the years I have been running training courses this has only happened to me once before. If you are a right handed person reading this it will probably be lost on you. You haven't spent years with people saying to you - 'oh you're a left hander' - as if there is somehow something wrong with you or you are coping really well at whatever you are doing and need congratulating.
I have been considering put together something that highlights how this world is set up for right handed people!! Any left handers out there let me know how being left handed can be a pain - obvious things are scissors - I know you can buy lefthanded scissors. Doorplates are on the right of doors. It is the righthand door in double doors ithat opens - when I want to use my left hand!!
Let me know what you find awkward / difficult or just plain annoying.
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Sandy Leong is a director of Sahara Consultancy, a dynamic training company, specialising in powerful training solutions. Sandy has been in the education field all her working life and is passionate in her enthusiam for developing individuals to achieve their potential.
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Don't get me started on how we lefties have to put up with living in a right handed world! Luckily we are good at adapting. Here are some things I have bought which are for left handers: bread knife (enables you to cut nice thin even slices), can opener, pencil sharpener, tape measure, vegetable peeler.
The things that irk me are keyholes which are, almost without exception, designed to insert a key with your right hand, toasters, cameras, the London Underground where you have to touch your Oyster card on the automatic reader - located on the RIGHT. And just about any bit of equipment (eg printer) where the on and off controls are on the right. Actually the list is endless....
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