A couple of months ago, there was a thread on small ways people are privileged that folks don’t think about. There was one comment about how left handed people live in a right handed world and that has lived rent free in my head ever since.

Obviously it’s nothing terrible but it’s literally everywhere. I went to buy new gardening shears, they all have right handed locking mechanisms. Most coffee mugs when held in the right hand show the picture to others and held by a lefty, the images faces the drinker. Most pencils with images or writing are right side up in the right hand and upside down in the left. Even my lint paddle must be held in the right hand for it to work at all.

There was a small wood shop in Talkeetna, Alaska that had an entire wall of hand carved left handed cooking utensils. I bought one and will be getting more.

Then, a couple of weeks ago, I was at one of those really fancy restaurants where they serve you 7-8 courses of very small plates, they only seat 8 people twice a day and cook the food right there. During the first course, everything was set up the same with utensils on the right side. At the second course, everyone had utensils on the right side except for my partner and I, our chopsticks were on the left side. They noticed we were both lefties!!

I have NEVER experienced that outside of my own home, since we are both lefties, I set tables that way. I was so impressed that the staff paid that much attention to detail and accommodated us. When we were waiting outside for our ride, two of the chefs stood out there until everyone was gone. I made sure to let them know how impressed I was and thanked them for the switch. I felt seen as a left handed person for the first time in my 40 years. I’ve been living off that high for weeks now lol.