> Not good to be >dependant on a lot of special equipment if it can be avoided. Like one >of my clients says - it's never where you need it!
In the UK there is a chain of specialist left handed shops, with many gimmicks ( like a left handed rule - the edge is numbered from the right to left so that the numbers can be seen as you rule a straight line) but there are also some really useful gadgets (like a bilateral bladed potato peeler - small thing, but makes a lot of frustration a thing of the past.) OK, so I've learned to adapt over the years, and don't really <need> a pencil sharpener that goes anticlockwise, or a pie-slice with the serrations in a place to assist instead of hinder. But it can be such fun to watch a right hander try and use them, and rather nice to be able to do things without adapting the task first. As an aside, has anyone else noticed the high proportion of left handed OTs? Normal population is apparently one in five; OTs can be very much higher than that - I've worked in an area where there were as many as three out of five. I have an (unproved) theory that in having to adapt for ourselves, we've already got two ways of doing every task - a real bonus for all OTs. Best wishes -- Lynn Chivers *********��*********** Unsubscribe? Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message's *body*, put the following text: unsubscribe OTlist ** List messages are archived at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] *********��***********
