Guest guest Posted September 4, 2000 Report Share Posted September 4, 2000 Speaking as a 'lefty' who uses a knife and fork and a 'mouse' as a 'righty'. I am fortunate I can usually adapt most tasks and in some cases can use either hand. Some tasks like cutting and sewing I am exclusively left handed. The only times I have experienced real problems was when I first started work at the tender age of 17 back in 1976. All the 'rems' machine had an old fashioned key board with nine rows of all nine numbers working from left to right and I could only use my left hand to work it! The best however, was when I started working at the till. The till drawers where down the right side of me with the heavy coin bags at the bottom. I was often seen disappearing into the coin drawer after whirling around too quickly on my chair to retrieve coin from the bottom drawer with my stronger/left hand! different lefties definitely have differing levels of left-handedness. H > I have a friend who is a dentist, she is right handed at work > but left handed in the kitchen and writing. > Totally normal to her, but I assume she trained with > people who are right handed and founded it easy to > copy. > > Trisha > Trainee BFC > Mother to Jack 6, 5 and Isaac 14 months > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 4, 2000 Report Share Posted September 4, 2000 I was always good at subtraction - had to work out that to do draw a 5 inch line with a 12 inch ruler I had to start at 12 and draw to 7. Was forced to use cutlery 'properly' in case I ever got to dine with the Queen. Consequently I used to sit at the front window before lunchtime expecting her to come down the drive to come to lunch to justify my sacrifice.. Barbara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 5, 2000 Report Share Posted September 5, 2000 >All the 'rems' machine Cor, there's a word from the past. Which bank did you work for? -- Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 5, 2000 Report Share Posted September 5, 2000 > different lefties definitely have differing levels of left-handedness. > > H It always amazes me what lefties can do with their right hands, I am useless with my left hand and yet my lefty mother irons and uses a mouse right handed. She couldn't teach me to knit though as she does that left handed. Cerys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 5, 2000 Report Share Posted September 5, 2000 > Was forced to use cutlery 'properly' in case I ever got to dine with the > Queen. Consequently I used to sit at the front window before lunchtime > expecting her to come down the drive to come to lunch to justify my > sacrifice.. > Barbara LOL We were always asked " would you behave like that if the Queen came to tea? " But then we're the family which needs the rule " no singing at table " . Cerys Byrne Visit us at http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=1159539 Password: September Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 5, 2000 Report Share Posted September 5, 2000 >Cerys>It always amazes me what lefties can do with their right hands, I am useless >with my left hand and yet my lefty mother irons and uses a mouse right >handed. She couldn't teach me to knit though as she does that left handed. I'm sure I remember reading something about handedness which basically said that if you were RHded it meant that you had a trigger in your genetic makeup which meant that you would always develop to be RHded. If you are LHded (so it said) you were missing this trigger factor that would develop RHded-ness and so this was when brain dominance kicked in, and this could vary in strenghth so you might end up being RH (but able to use LH quite well) ambidextrous, or LH but able to use RH quite well, or (but more rarely) *very* LHded does this ring anybells or did I dream it? Angi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 5, 2000 Report Share Posted September 5, 2000 Hi Sue, Barclays at Yorktown branch in Camberley Surrey. For any 'locals' it was opposite the Duke of York Pub and is now an Indian restaurant! H > >All the 'rems' machine > > Cor, there's a word from the past. > > Which bank did you work for? > > -- > Sue > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 5, 2000 Report Share Posted September 5, 2000 Aaaargh, my old stamping ground. Used to work at the SHBC offices when they were on the London Road. Used to be Bejams warehouse and I worked in the old cold store in the drawing office. remember wheeling my moped home because I was paralytic after the office xmas party. Only rode it when I was round the corner from home, my parents heard and wouldn't believe that I had pushed the blooming thing 3 miles. M & D still live in Frimley. Sue H. heather hadley wrote: > Hi Sue, > > Barclays at Yorktown branch in Camberley Surrey. For any 'locals' it was > opposite the Duke of York Pub and is now an Indian restaurant! > > H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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