And the question of 2012 goes to...

[miasmum]

I don't understand any of that WM, I can't tell my left from my right anyway. So I have no idea how to set a table and if one person is right you can bet the person opposite isn't

[JoM]

well don't leave it like that Jo, so what did you do???????

I butchered 'em with a knife.
Some of the potato peelings were thick enough to be mistaken for chips

[Workingman]

I don't understand any of that WM, I can't tell my left from my right anyway. So I have no idea how to set a table and if one person is right you can bet the person opposite isn't

It's a right-handed world Shell.

A table set in the 'normal' way - knives on the right, forks on the left, spoon handles pointing this way, glasses and cups on the right - is all wrong for us left-handers.

And those veggie peelers have a cutting edge designed specifically for right-handers. Us lefties are likely to disembowel ourselves when using them.

[Kaz]

My first hubby was left-handed and often complained of the same Frank! I remember scissors were a particular nuisance from his POV

[Paddypix]

Please don't be hard on us southpaws. It is hard for us living in mirror-image world.

Take knives, knives. Modern knives are edged so that a fine slice falls away from the blade in poetic motion. NOT FOR US! For us the knife slips off, skids across the worktop, scratching it, and ends up stuck 'tween the top and the edge of the sink. So, we make adjustments to the angle of attack, but the knife knows this and makes us cut off big chunks when the recipe clearly states "thin" slices.

Then there are swing doors in corridors. It does not matter where we are in the world the right-hand door is the one that always swings away: always. The result for US is stubbed toes, dislocated wrists and bloody noses., because we always go for OUR option.

And don't mention restaurants: DON'T!. There should be huge fines for them laying out tables with the cutlery, cups and glasses in the wrong places.

But before I go I must mention our heroes... those, obvious, left-handers who invented velcro and slip-on shoes. Well done peeps! You right-handers have no idea how much they mean to us, or how confusing and psychologically damaging it is for us southpaw toddlers to be taught how to tie up shoelaces by people WHO HAVEN'T GOT A CLUE WHAT THEY ARE DOING!!!

Couldn't agree more. I'm left handed (well all the best people are, eh Frank?) and it's certainly a right handed world.

[Weka]

I found left handed scissors, proper grown up ones, so bought them for my left handed brother who's always complaint about the right handed world, turns out he uses his scissors right handed...