Left-handed screwdriver

Posted on October 9, 2007 | Comments Off on Left-handed screwdriver

It took me almost a full minute to realize this was a joke, along the lines of tartan paint, or a solar-powered flashlight. Took a while because I was searching for left-handed tools on the Web–why not? they make left-handed guitars– after watching Mr. B., who is left handed, struggle to turn a screw last night at a Cub Scout meeting. It was his Wolf den meeting where tools were introduced to the boys, most of whom have seen the tools but not had a chance to try to use them. Turning a screw to the right is more difficult if you’re left handed. Like turning a door knob to the right. It’s just something he’s going to have to adapt to, probably using his right hand. Fortunately, he already bats right handed in baseball and prefers to throw right handed, as well.

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0 responses to “Left-handed screwdriver”

  1. jdallen's avatar jdallen | October 9, 2007 at 12:22 pm |

    Being left-handed is weird, and hard in lots of ways right-handed people just won’t ever get.
    We lefties are all ambidextrous to a greater or lesser extent. For instance, I bat right and throw left. I use a screwdriver righty, so I never noticed the problem you talked about, same for scissors. As a schoolkid, I had to do weird things with the scissors to make them work left-handed, so I just learned to do them as a righty.

  2. Dick Stanley's avatar Dick Stanley | October 9, 2007 at 5:59 pm |

    I never noticed the problems of the left-handed world until Mr. B. came along. He is reasonably ambidextrous (can throw both right and left), but usually reaches for something with his left and writes and eats left-handed. The screwdriver threw him, but he’ll figure it out.