🫲 The Struggles Of Being Left-Handed

Are you a leftie?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know, it's hard being a left you and I'm
not talking about your political persuasion, although it would be
hard deciding which cause you're going to go with. You
know what's sticky you put on?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Now we're talking about Brendan being left handed. Ten percent
of the population in left handed. But we do live
in a right handed world.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yeah, my sister she's a left. Yeah, my sister's a left. Yeah. Yeah,
but they're doing well in life.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Well, we're all doing well in life. And it's easier
now being a left handed person than it used to be. Well,
you get whacked on the hands and all kinds of things.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
It's a hard left life. It's if you know what
I mean.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
I'm a big right I sound like I'm a million
years old. But when I first came to Sydney with
my family, we were allowed to use biros. We had
to use cartridge pens at school and this I had
to blot after every letter because I just smudged it
the whole thing. Mum went up to the school and said,
can you please let her use a boy you give
her her pen license? No, I couldn't get I had to.
We had to use the NIB and I got a

(00:56):
left handed nib made no difference. The kids these days,
they have no idea.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Narrowly has joined as hello narrowly?

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Hello? How are you very well?

Speaker 2 (01:05):
What have you found?

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Hard?

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Narrowly?

Speaker 3 (01:08):
I found when I was in primary school they wouldn't
let me use my left hand, so they used to
tie it behind onto the back of my chair and
make me try and white right right handed. So if
I wormed my hand out, they would then whack my knuckles.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
It's terrible. Did it make you a right handed person?

Speaker 3 (01:32):
No? No, no, no, no, good on you I am. And
now when I write, I have to angle the paper
on a completely different angle. I can't write like a
normal person with the paper straight. I have to have
it turned very.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
I'm the same. And when someone hands something other for
me to sign a form or whatever, I've just turned
the whole thing around narrowly.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
When Amanda's signing her eight by fours for fans, I
noticed that usually sometimes like youctually invertently put a mono
brow in yourself, I've noticed and smudge.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
When you go to sign and people tie your hands
behind your back?

Speaker 1 (02:08):
What do I actually sign stuff with?

Speaker 3 (02:09):
People?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Hello? Isy? How are you? How old? Are you?

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Is he?

Speaker 2 (02:16):
And are you left handed? And what bits? Do you
find hard.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Writing on the white board? Because it smuges my heart?

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh that's the thing. It's a telltale sign you're left
handed because you've got pen or whatever it is smeared
all the way down your hand.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yes, can you write on the other? Is there another
way of writing on the whiteboard for easy? Surely we
have some sort of this is an invention.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
We could come up with a left handed writing solution
or a left handed What about a left handed whiteboard?
How does that work?

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, I'm not too sure. I just come up with
the concept. Is he Can you come up with something
and then hooks in on it?

Speaker 4 (02:58):
What?

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Okay? Is he? Thank you? Left handed?

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Mate?

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Michelle has joined us.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
I think he was a girl. Hi, very well, thank
you tell us about being a lefty.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Ah, I think we're all.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
It's the pain for all of us.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
I grew up where Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
My dad tried to make me change.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Of course it never stuck. But probably one of the
worst things I've had to deal with is that I
can't pay any sport that requires a bat or.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
Anything like that.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
I can't play tennis, golf, or anything like that, because
I can't figure out which hand he is.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know, it's interesting you say that because sometimes I'm
right handed, sometimes I'm left handed, because I've I've been
asked to try different ways because left handed golf clubs
are very expensive.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
If you were to ride a skateboard or a surfboard,
are you a goofy or a natural?

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Michelle?

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Tell me what?

Speaker 3 (03:50):
I can't do that either.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
But anyway, what does that mean?

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Well, goofy is left handed?

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, but skateboard, how do you tell where you put
your oh lord foot down to speed up? Okay, so
what you mean?

Speaker 1 (04:03):
We're not gonna watch you shred at the ball? And
thank you, Michelle, and Mariam is going to wrap this up, Hi,
marry him.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Tell us about being a lefty.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
Well, I'm a righty, but I'm surrounded by lefties. My grandfather,
my mother, and my sister were all left My best
friends through high school all turned out to be left
and my husband is left handed, and two of our
four sons are left handed. Really so, and the worst
thing I've seen is my husband trying to operate a

(04:33):
hedge trimmer that looked dangerous.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Very righty surrounded by lefties.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
It's like Carl Stefanovi makes me so angry. Thank you
for all your course,