i'm a right handed barber and my friend is a left handed barber, and we absolutely cannot use each other's hair shears.

funny story from a lefty's point of view. We were at the lake this past summer with our family. My dil was helping me make breakfast, pancakes and sausage and bacon. Jenny flipped the pancakes, and it was all I could do not to take the spatula from her and show her the correct way. It looked so awkward the way she was flipping them with her right hand. We laughed and laughed when I told her. Sometimes righties look as funny to us as we must to them!

I am left handed as well, but I can also use my right hand for some things. I write left handed, bowl and play ball right handed. I can cut either way or use scissors either way. I have the Martelli left & right hand cutter. Takes some getting used to but I really like them. I once had an elderly person as she watched me write say that evil people were left handed. I thought that rather rude and I am definately not evil. :evil:

back in school I had a teacher turn my paper so it was the direction righties write. I turned it back and told her I don't write that way. She turned it again, so I put my pen down and refused to do the assignment. The next day she didn't bother my paper. I don't write upside down. I turn my paper and write as righties write, just with my left hand. Do any of you?
I knit and crochet left handed, but not like most lefties. I learned mirror image from my mom, a rightie. so it looks different than most others yarn work.

One gal mentioned the Martelli Rotary cutter. I have one too for my left hand, and LOVE IT...now on to getting them to fix the RULERS!

I have a nephew who is left handed. Growing up he would get frustrated trying to do things with his left hand that was for righties only. He swore he was going to open a store called Lefties R Us. Everything in the store for left handed people only. I wonder how well it would have done if he had opened a store like that.

[quote=redrummy] I don't write upside down. I turn my paper and write as righties write, just with my left hand. Do any of you?


I am the same way.

I have just done things the way that feels "natural" to me - removing pins with my left hand (they point to the right) was something I didn't even know was not the norm! Quilting doesn't seem to give me many troubles, but when I taught myself to crochet - that took some effort! EVERYTHING had to be done the opposite of what was described. I'd say other things in life are more of a hassle than quilting - ladles with the pour spout on the wrong side??!! How about serrated knives with the serrrated edge only on one side - the WRONG side??!!!

I've seen our President signing documents with his left hand. Googling "left handed" give some very interesting tidbits - famous people, etc.

Conversation over dinner:

A husband asks his wife, "Honey, if I died, would you remarry?"
"After a considerable period of grieving, I guess I would. We all need companionship."

"If I died and you remarried," the husband asks, "would he live in this house?"
"We've spent a lot of money getting this house just the way we want it. I'm not going to get rid of my house. I guess he would."

"If I died and you remarried, and he lived in this house," the husband asks, "would he sleep in our bed?"
"Well, the bed is brand new, and it cost us $2000. It's going to last a long time, so I guess he would."

"If I died and you remarried, and he lived in this house and slept in our bed, would he use my golf clubs?"
"Oh, no!" the wife replies. "He's left-handed!"

try the spring action scissors.. they are razor sharp without using pressure of the "left right thing".. they may be what you need.

I'm a lefty forced to use my right hand. I deal a deck of cards with my left and wield hammers, screwdrivers and the like with my left hand. I use my right to cook and both to sew and quilt.

As for scissors I use the softtouch by fiskers. These I can switch from hand to hand with no problem. I use grey handled ones for sewing and blue ones for paper. I use the fiskers rotary cutter for right handed people in my left hand. It's a bit awkward to hold and avoid retracting the blade. I'll look into the Martinelli left handed rotary cutter.