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Left-Handed Day Parade Stirs Controversy
August 13 is Worldwide Left Handers Day, a 24-hour prance noted by fun, festivities, and also collective petitions for pens that do not spot while you're writing "Mrs. Keanu Reeves" in the margins on your note pad.

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However not every person is greeting now with smiles.

As a group of Left Handers and also their allies marched down Broadway on a rain-soaked Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Morris, a Brooklyn homeowner that declined to offer his full name, rolled his eyes. "It's not that I have anything versus lefties," he informed us. "I uncommitted what hand you utilize to compose; simply do not utilize it in my yard."

Manhattan resident Marta Gonzalez, that saw the ceremony throughout her cigarette break, echoed Mr. Morris' thoughts. "You do not see any one of us having http://www.dreamstime.com/ a Right Handers Day," she mentioned. "And also, I'm not anti-lefthanders or anything, but I have actually merely obtained to claim that I'm royalty free photos public domain concerned about just what they desire following. I do not want my kid being required to write with his left hand in school! Where will it end, you recognize?"

" It's not about leaving out right-handed people," explained Jeffrey Robles, head of state of the New York-based Leftie Chance Organization (L.O.L.), "It's about commemorating a smaller sized group. It's also crucial to keep in mind that the lefterly-gifted have dealt with lots of drawbacks throughout history as well as into the existing day. Lots of usual, everyday products, as an example, are not developed to be made use of by this group. Do you understand exactly how lengthy it's been because I've had the ability to delight in a freshly-opened container of Chef Boyardee ravioli? I can't use a handbook can opener. It injures my wrist. I obtain cramps. It's been, what? 7? Eight? 9 years"

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Back at the ceremony, Brooklynite Amy Chen held out a homemade banner reading "LEFT IS RIGHT" in large, glittery letters. "Look, I'm not even left-handed," she explained. "It's just, like. Why do you care just what hand somebody creates with? How does it impact your life whatsoever? It does not. We're all merely individuals." She re-adjusted her oversize novelty sunglasses, its lenses shaped to resemble two left hands. "A few of us just have a less complicated time utilizing scissors than others."

Note: Yes, this is satire. Ridiculous.




 
 
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