Today, August 13, is Left-Handers Day, a day to celebrate the roughly thirteen percent of the human race that absolutely hates writing in pencil.

For some fun facts about left-handedness, read this piece on ABC’s website (so I don’t have to summarize it for you.)

Research suggests that lefties tend to be more creative, but also more prone to ADD and other mishaps. Those who know me should not be surprised by that one teensy bit.

While I write with my left hand, technically I am ambidextrous, and I have a highly random and unpredictable set of things I do left- or right-handed. I’m actually right-handed for most things. The two major things I do left-handed are writing and cooking-related activities (i.e. cutting, stirring, etc.), unless I’m using a knife and fork, in which case the fork is in my left hand. I actually have no idea how most people use cutlery. I use scissors with my right hand (which made kindergarten much easier), and I am universally right-handed in sports. Video game controllers seem to be set up to require left-handed use of the joy-/thumbstick, and that has never been a problem.

Where it gets fun is in activities where I switch hands depending on what type of device I am using. In music lessons, I have learned that I play guitar right-handed (fretting with the left hand, strumming/picking with the right), but that I play wind instruments (based on an attempt to play the recorder in elementary school) left-handed.

Having taken classes in both riflery and pistol safety, I learned that I shoot pistols right-handed, but rifles and shotguns left-handed. No one can figure that one out.

If I were capable of juggling one-handed, I just have this feeling that it would be my right hand.

Photo credit: Via leftorium.com.