This was in our local paper last week.
Left-handed people snubbed by chair-makers I've spent many afternoons since my wife's stroke and right-side paralysis looking for a chair with a footrest that she could easily operate. I've probably looked at over 200 chairs in a half dozen furniture stores. Not one had a lever or control that can be operated by a left-handed person. Considering the fact that at least 10 percent of the population is left-handed (not to mention the number of elderly people, post-stroke, in the age group most likely to buy such chairs), the total absence of left-hand operated chairs suggests a lack of business sense. It made me think of an equally dumb decision our leaders made in the Reagan era. We remain, along with Myanmar and Liberia, the only exporting nations in the world not on the metric system. BILL KEHOE WEBSTER Howard Ressel Project Design Engineer NYSDOT 1530 Jefferson Road Rochester, NY 14623 585 272-3372 43,560 square feet in an acre 5280 feet in a mile 16 ounces in a pound 128 ounces in a gallon 23 confused kids in a class What could be simpler?
