Jon and Wolfgang, I found your comments very interesting. I too am from the generation (a generation, anyway) made to do things with our right hands. I have clear memories of being made to put down an eating utensil I had picked up with my left, and pick it up with my right. My maternal grandmother was a leftie, and I am one who has to stop and consciously think about left/right. I also have to turn a map so it is oriented like the real world. My old eye doctor told me I was "cross-dominant" -- ie, right handed, but a dominant left eye. (I also remember the phrase getting a lot of chuckles on the old thread.)

I'm not sure if I'm mildly dyslexic or if nature intended me for a leftie. I have leftie nieces, tho' my sister is also a rightie, and her husband's family had no lefties. Way back in high school science they taught us that the leftie gene is dominant. I also read that the percentage of lefties in the world is going up now that the tendency is no longer suppressed.

Thanks for the insights. -- Mary Ann