Thursday, April 27, 2006

Being gauche!!!

I am a gauche person...any three guesses as to wat it means?!
I know u dint get it!! It means I am a south paw....
U still dont understand u right handed idiot?!!! I said I am left handed...

Dont yell back "SO WAT?"

Well, ever since I started using my hands, people have thought I am weird [I am... but that happend later in life] becos I am left handed.. I remember one of my kindergarten teachers had a grudge against me becos she told me to use my right hand and I dint... She saw me when I was in 10th class and her first question was "So u still write with ur left hand?".... I was the biggest sinner she had come across!!! And then there used to be exam times when those senior students used to block any space that my left hand needed for support....Oh how I hated those bullies....Oops and not to mention the family functions, when as a good tamil ponnu I used to serve food in the "pandhi" [simply put it is a mass eating session].....and people where so offended when I served food with my strong hand. Some even insisted that I use my right hand, which essentially meant sambhar on the white dhothi or payasam on that costly Kanjevaram pattu sari...unintentionally of course:)))) And many gadgets including the computer mouse and musical instruments are designed for the dominant majority.....making my arms ache when I play minesweeper [of course it is important] and handicapping my ability to play veena [ No that is not a LAME excuse ]

That apart, my left handedness has been quite a boon - because it provdied me an identity. People [read teachers and superiors] spotted me easily in a class of 70 people... and for some odd reason people think LHers are intelligent... Whoa.. what a joke! and even worse one of my friends thinks lefties are hot just becos they are left handed...The reason why this post came up was that today someone told me " U r a LHed, you should be good at Math" and that is as far from truth as Pluto [not the cartoon] from the Sun. ...

So here are some truths about handedness,

Ur handedness is genetic to some extent. For right handed people, the left side of the brain is dominant and vice versa for the Left handed - this is a much debated concept, but still the most interesting one I found. Well so much for the woes [and wins] of a gauche.....

3 comments:

Kapil said...

well southpaws do have a certain grace abt them...left handed batsmen are knwn for thr elegant strokes !! n i dun think tht it iz cos of any dominant part of the brain

Anuj said...

being a right handed one doesnt really make one adroite at his work :) and a left hander aint really a gauche at his skills.. :)

Wundergal said...

that said, the main thing is many of the things used today are so left hander unfriendly!! But now there are few things being released in the market ones for use by us "underpriveldged" !!!
-S