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conulyI got a set of cute little penguin pens. They're very cute. So cute.
I didn't realize that each pen has a little motto on it, or I might've not bought them. You see, one continuing annoyance since childhood is that writing on pens is always upside down if you're left-handed. Oh, you can get pens where the writing is oriented correctly, that is, for lefties, but for some reason all that writing inevitably is left-handed themed! I don't want my right side up pen motto to say something like "Only lefties are in their right mind!", I want it to say something like "Hope you are happy every day", which is the upside down motto on this purple penguin.
It's the same with left-handed rulers, incidentally. I just want the numbers to go in a sensible direction, I don't need my ruler to affirm how wonderful it is that I'm drawing lines with my left hand.
On a related note, I'm seriously considering buying another pair of lefty kitchen shears for work. I don't really have to spend much time in the kitchen, but if I am in the kitchen and using kitchen shears (almost inevitably to cut up the next day's lunch sandwiches but sometimes to cut up breakfast pancakes and sausages) I'd rather use mine than theirs, because cutting with the wrong scissors is painful and messy. But if I bring my sole pair - which is amazing, I love it, best Christmas present ever! - back and forth with me then sometimes I use it at home, forget to put it back in my bag, and then am irritated for three days until I finally remember again. I could ask them to supply shears for me and keep them in the kitchen drawer, it's a legitimate (and small!) expense, but honestly, I know from experience that righties are terrible and when they accidentally use left-handed scissors they get very confused and irritated. Amusing for me, but undoubtedly an exercise in frustration for a workplace. It's really better all around to bring my own.
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I didn't realize that each pen has a little motto on it, or I might've not bought them. You see, one continuing annoyance since childhood is that writing on pens is always upside down if you're left-handed. Oh, you can get pens where the writing is oriented correctly, that is, for lefties, but for some reason all that writing inevitably is left-handed themed! I don't want my right side up pen motto to say something like "Only lefties are in their right mind!", I want it to say something like "Hope you are happy every day", which is the upside down motto on this purple penguin.
It's the same with left-handed rulers, incidentally. I just want the numbers to go in a sensible direction, I don't need my ruler to affirm how wonderful it is that I'm drawing lines with my left hand.
On a related note, I'm seriously considering buying another pair of lefty kitchen shears for work. I don't really have to spend much time in the kitchen, but if I am in the kitchen and using kitchen shears (almost inevitably to cut up the next day's lunch sandwiches but sometimes to cut up breakfast pancakes and sausages) I'd rather use mine than theirs, because cutting with the wrong scissors is painful and messy. But if I bring my sole pair - which is amazing, I love it, best Christmas present ever! - back and forth with me then sometimes I use it at home, forget to put it back in my bag, and then am irritated for three days until I finally remember again. I could ask them to supply shears for me and keep them in the kitchen drawer, it's a legitimate (and small!) expense, but honestly, I know from experience that righties are terrible and when they accidentally use left-handed scissors they get very confused and irritated. Amusing for me, but undoubtedly an exercise in frustration for a workplace. It's really better all around to bring my own.
6th grader's science experiment answers, 'Do cat buttholes touch every surface they sit on?' (Give this kid a Nobel, or at least an Ig Nobel!)
And I bet his good dog lives, too!
What the World Got Wrong About Autistic People (Everything, as always)
Why are malnutrition deaths soaring in America?
I Was Kidnapped by Idiots
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Date: 2026-01-12 10:04 am (UTC)I had a vision of you as a gun slinger - with left handed pair of scissors in your holster.
Scissors are tools. A girl's best friend is tools. Get yourself another pair!
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Date: 2026-01-12 01:45 pm (UTC)My kid is left-handed and will almost certainly be interested in not making a federal case out of it as you are. There's probably a market for Tools For Left-Handed People That Don't Have To Be Cute. Shears as you say, rulers with the writing going the proper direction, connect-the-dot puzzles going the opposite way to what they usually do, probably knives that are sharpened on the other side, hell (for all I know) hunting rifles that eject their cartridges on the other side. One could call the shop Just Let Left-Handed People Get On With It.
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Date: 2026-01-12 02:22 pm (UTC)I would. My mother forced me to go righty when I was very little. I was pretty clumsy as a little kid, but eventually I got used to it. I don't know whose left-handed scissors I had to use one day when I was about ten, or remember why. But it hurt!
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Date: 2026-01-12 02:46 pm (UTC)I hear you on the pen mottos, that's just obnoxious.
Those shears will be 100% worth it. I am annoyed that our 10% of the population gets ignored so often.
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Date: 2026-01-12 04:24 pm (UTC)I am so thankful she did that, life at work would be so much harder with RH scissors! I wouldn't say that I use them daily, but often enough that they play a fairly significant role in my work life.
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Date: 2026-01-13 05:57 am (UTC)(Also, that 10% number is almost certainly too low, but nobody seems interested in getting a more accurate and updated one.)
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Date: 2026-01-13 06:38 am (UTC)I use my pocket knife a lot more, but scissors definitely are very useful.
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Date: 2026-01-13 07:51 am (UTC)