Significant advantage to the southpaw, spiral staircases

[bullwinkle]

I'm sort of left handed . Basically , I eat and write left handed . I shoot and throw a ball right handed . I'm weird .

Not weird, ambidextrous! I was born left handed & for some reason my parents trained me to do everything right handed...

 

[skyactiv]

A friend of mine growing up lived in a big old home built for someone wealthy. It had a main staircase but there was also a spiral staircase in the kitchen.

 

[Astro14]

Imagine if he wants to play baseball and tries out for a team. He gets to compete only for 55.5% of the positions. Right handed players get a chance at 100%. The fix is easy. Make third base, first base.

He did play sports, and in soccer and cross-country, it mattered little.

He went to college and works in cybersecurity, so, again, it matters little.

I think the world has changed and is considerably more tolerant of lefties than it was in your generation.

 

[JeffKeryk]

An inordinate number of left handed people become US Presidents and NFL Quarterbacks.

 

[PandaBear]

Urban myth.

By the time you're fighting there, the castle is lost.

BTW, some spiral left, some right. And in that picture the fighter standing higher is at a serious disadvantage, you kinda need your feet and legs but can't defend them there.

Not all battles were big troop combats, some were just coups.

 

[burbguy82]

I'm sort of left handed . Basically , I eat and write left handed . I shoot and throw a ball right handed . I'm weird .

I am left eye dominate, right handed. I shoot rifles lefty, pistols righty, swords, never.

 

[Number_35]

When I was in kindergarten the teacher tried to force me to write right handed . It didn't turn out too well and my Mom finally had to intervene with the school . Yeah , Catholic school ...

I narrowly dodged that particular bullet back in Grade 1. Miss Graham was a an old-school sort, and I have a strong memory of her and the younger and kinder principal, Miss Hersom, hovering over my desk and discussing my "disability":

Miss Graham: "Well, I don't think it's right! He should learn to write properly like the other children!"

Miss Hersom: "Well, they now say it's better to let them write with whichever hand they choose, so I think we should respect that."

And how long ago was this? Well, JFK would remain president for another couple of months.

At six, I did not have the foresight to tell Miss Graham that future American presidents Ford, Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, and Obama would all be lefties.