For me, it was a left-handed scalloped bread knife.
For years I struggled to cut bread by hand. I watched my dad do it my entire childhood, but I could not cut bread to save my life. Then I got a left-handed bread knife. The scallops are on the opposite side of the knife from a wrong-handed knife.
THESE FUCKING THINGS ARE RIGHT HANDED?!
Yes, though I’ve managed to train myself to twist the knife slightly in the ‘wrong’ direction while cutting to counteract the way it naturally wants to cut. Similar to how you can use right handed scissors left handed if you pull with your thumb and push with your fingers instead of letting them do the natural motion while cutting.
Left handed scissors.
Literal years spent wondering why I couldn’t cut straight lines like my right handed family, wondering why scissors cramped my hand when I used them, all because I didn’t have the right left scissors.
Best $11 I ever spent for being left handed.
Tim snips
Poor Tim.
A left handed can opener was such a game changer. I literally cross my hands one over the other to use a right handed can opener.
A left handed measuring tape is really nice in theory but actually it often ends up being kind of backwards to how you’d want it if holding the tape in your right hand and pencil in left. I’ve actually heard some right handed carpenters prefer left handed tapes for that reason.
I have thought about a left-handed tape but have never seen one to purchase. I do have a left-handed caliper though.
I had to buy a left-handed sushi knife. It cost 50% more than the right-handed version so I’m kinda mad about it but I love that I have a knife I only allow left-handed people to use.
Shooting thingies like guns, bows.
A left-handed gun wasn’t really heard of when I grew up.
I’m sure some existed, but I’d never seen one, let alone used one until much later in life.I’m right-handed… but left-eye dominant. Actually, not just eye-dominance, but I have noticeably worse eyesight in the right eye, even with correction.
Being right-handed, I never really questioned it when someone handed me a right-handed shooting apparatus.
Not that I used bows or guns that much, but some just plain sucked to use and I only figured it out later in life.Shooting from the left shoulder makes a lot more sense to me because that’s where my good eye is and my left hand only has to squeeze the trigger or release the string anyway.
Sight alignment is way more important.
Moving and pointing the thing with my right hand makes sense.Many modern bows have very pronounced “handedness” in their very asymmetrical designs and are very awkward to even hold offhand and almost unsable.
I don’t mind righties’ break actions, that’s mostly ambidextrous anyway unless there’s a pronounced grip.
Righties bolt actions are a bit weird to cycle, you either reach around to cycle, or hold it up with the trigger hand. I’m kinda stuck… a lefty rifle is superior for me, but I’m somewhat used to righties.
Righties semi-autos kinda suck because of the gasses being ejected in your face.
I imagine full-autos suck more in that regard.
That and mag releases and safeties.Communism
