Righty in a Left-Handed World

We all know the world favors right-handed people but I am starting to have an appreciation for the adjustments left-handed people have to make. In an effort to get the tendon in my right elbow to heal as quickly as possible, I’ve been using my left hand & arm a lot. I have been enlightened. The world truly does discriminate against left-handed people. Of course maybe some of them deserve it. Heh, Dad doesn’t read this so I can say things like that about him & he’ll never know it!

Take something as simple as a computer mouse. I figured I’d move it over to the left of the desk and use my left hand. But I had to hold it awkwardly in order to click. Okay, I thought, I’ll just switch the mouse buttons. Then I kept forgetting I switched them, clicked the wrong one & couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t doing what it was supposed to do. And there’s more. The arrow pointer for the mouse looks like this:

For the short time I had the mouse buttons switched & the mouse on my left side, I felt the arrow was facing the wrong way & should be flipped like this:

There is, by the way, no way that I can find to flip it. Maybe if I knew I’d have to use my left hand a lot more, I’d be more concerned with figuring out a way to do that but as it turns out, I really don’t care.

Another discovery was that it’s easier to open the car door with your left hand if you’re getting into the driver’s seat rather than the passenger seat. It’s odd what sort of things you notice when you’re temporarily disabled. I am extremely thankful that it’s only my elbow and not a knee or ankle.

This was kinda boring and not at all funny, eh? Ah, well, I can’t be funny all the time. It’s the drugs. All that Alleve is just fogging up my mind. I’ll try to do better tomorrow.