Left Handers to have their day
Specialist retailer supports sinister celebrations
July 16 2003
Specialist retailer Anything Left-Handed is sponsoring the 11th annual Left-Handers Day taking place on August 13.
The London store, which specialises in left handed products from scissors to cameras, is urging the 28,000 members of The Left-Handers Club to declare their homes and offices ‘Lefty Zones’ where right-hand dominance, for once, will be banned.
Left-handers will be celebrating their sinistrality – from the Latin for left – by turning the tables on right-handers, who will experience how awkward and frustrating it can be living in a back-to-front-world.
Left-Handers Day aims to create awareness among the right-handed majority, in a light-hearted way, of the problems right-biased design of everything from scissors to sinks, chequebooks to computer mice, or musical instruments to microwaves can have on the 13 per cent of the people who do not use their right hand for tasks.
The International Left-Handers Club is free to join through the retailer’s website www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk. It hosts a forum for club members, has regular newsletters and special offers. This year, Left-Handers Day celebrations will be focused on internet-based activities in order to reach more people wanting to take part.
