Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dual.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!dual!hav From: hav@dual.UUCP (Not Sid Vicious) Newsgroups: net.med,net.kids,net.social Subject: I Apologise (to Bill Stewart) Message-ID: <1086@dual.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 18:01:20 EDT Article-I.D.: dual.1086 Posted: Fri Aug 23 18:01:20 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 23:47:56 EDT References: <127@unc.unc.UUCP> <1080@ihlpg.UUCP> <165@ho95e.UUCP> <1082@dual.UUCP> Organization: Dual Systems, Berkeley, CA Lines: 34 Xref: watmath net.med:2183 net.kids:1732 net.social:910 <*munch*> => => 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 {ucbvax,ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs,decwrl,unisoft,fortune,sun,nsc}!dual!hav "J. Frank Parnell." "Ott . . . Otto." "Do you ever feel as if your mind had started to erode?"