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From: hav@dual.UUCP (Not Sid Vicious)
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Subject: I Apologise (to Bill Stewart)
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Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 18:01:20 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 23 18:01:20 1985
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=> => Besides, I'm enough of a klutz being naturally right-handed - I can't
=> => imagine how clumsy I'd be is I had to do everything with my
=> => less-coordinated hand.
=> => 
=> => ## Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs

To which I reponded:

=> Minor flame here:  While I wholeheartedly agree with the points Bill makes in
=> his first paragraph, I take exception to his allusion (not an original idea,
=> actually . . . in fact, it seems quite popular) that left-handed people are
=> clumsy.  Like my mother and sister, I'm left-handed (my father and brother
=> are both righties . . . figure that one out).  All of us have normal motor
=> coordination; in fact, my mother and I have both always been very busy in
=> hand crafts and that sort of thing.  The only time I'm abnormally clumsy is
=> when I'm trying to find my way to the bathroom after too many margaritas. :-)

It seems I jumped the gun here, at least if my mailbox is to be considered.
I was trying to defend myself and the other lefties who have spent their
lives being told they aren't as coordinated as right-handed people and
generally facing prejudice (everyone remember those desks in school . . . the
ones with the writing surface attached from the right-hand side?).  I guess I
was being too defensive, since a number of people have told me that wasn't at
all what Bill was saying.  Sorry 'bout that.  My foot's delicious today.  :-)

Helen Anne

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