coincidentally a patron had come up to my desk at the library on yesterday and noticed i was left handed. she proceeded to tell me that she was left handed. this is not a rarity, but this does get more interesting. she continues to tell me she bats right handed in baseball but hits with her left in tennis. this is very particular indeed, since common sense should dictate you use your stronger arm. she also explains she uses her right hand to write and left hand to use chopsticks.
the japanese lady was in her 60s and i suppose you can argue the fact that she came from a different generation where being left handed was looked down upon, but i would think the use of chopsticks with the left hand be looked down upon as well.
then we got into the conversation about scissors and can openers. no, she can't use right handed scissors, and yes she can use can openers. i would infer lefties having to learn to use those tools with the right hand out of necessity, but i've been wrong so far about this lady.
at the end of our conversation she showed me her unique ability to write with both hands. now i've seen people who can write with both hands simultaneously, but this is different. she can write in mirror, where the letters are flipped backwards like how leonardo di vinci wrote in his journals and at the same write correctly with her right hand. she started from the middle with both pencils and wrote from middle to the left with her left hand and with her right hand she wrote from the middle to the right.
she suspects all left-handers have the ability to do this, but i can't. i tried and failed. i just ended up writing the words backwards with the letters written correctly.
to top the story off, of all the sentences she could have chosen to write, she wrote "i am a boy." i'm sure she was not trying to hint something to me. but as you can see from my attempt on the second line, i failed in mirroring her mirror writing.
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