{"id":13498,"date":"2019-08-15T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=13498"},"modified":"2019-08-15T15:17:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T14:17:00","slug":"happy-left-handers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/2019\/08\/happy-left-handers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Left-Handers Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/International-Left-Handers-Day-1024x444.png\" alt=\"Left Handers  Day -- Speedy Reg\" class=\"wp-image-13499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/International-Left-Handers-Day-1024x444.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/International-Left-Handers-Day-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/International-Left-Handers-Day-768x333.png 768w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/International-Left-Handers-Day-1200x520.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/International-Left-Handers-Day.png 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Left Handers  Day &#8212; Speedy Reg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re right handed, you\u2019ll never truly know the trauma\nof being left-handed. It can be just so troublesome when the world is set up\nfor right handed people. You may struggle to use scissors, your ink smudges\nwhen you write and using a can opener can be nigh on impossible. Then there are\nthe awkward moments when you go to hug someone or kiss them on the cheek, but\nyou both go the same way and you end up bumping noses in the middle. But it\u2019s\nnot some sort of illness or condition so you don\u2019t get any sympathy from anyone\nother than perhaps your fellow lefties. So you struggle along without\ncomplaint, in a world that\u2019s just not quite right for you, or should that be\nleft for you? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But you do have one consolation\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only around 13% of people are left-handed. So that makes you\npretty special. So special in fact that you have your own day \u2013 Left Handers\nDay, celebrated every year on August 13<sup>th<\/sup>. It\u2019s a day to embrace\nyour left-handedness, it\u2019s also the perfect time to tell everyone just how\nannoying it can be to be a left-hander and share your leftie pride or woes on\nsocial media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Did you know <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Evidence from cave paintings indicates that during\nthe Stone Age, most people were actually left-handed.<\/li><li>If you are left-handed, you are more likely to\nhave left-handed children. <\/li><li>Left-handers usually reach puberty a few months\nlater than right-handed people.<\/li><li>Are lefties more brainy? 4 out of 5 developers\nof the Macintosh computer were left-handed, and 1 in 4 Apollo astronauts were\nleft-handed. <\/li><li>Most lefties find line dancing really tricky. <\/li><li>Many American presidents have been left-handed\nincluding Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George H.W Bush and Ronald Reagan. <\/li><li>Left-handers are better at seeing underwater\nthan right-handers. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Left Handed Number Plates <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, all our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/personalised-number-plates\">personalised number plates<\/a> work just as well if you\u2019re left-handed or right-handed but if you\u2019d like to celebrate your handedness on your latest set of plates then how about one of o<a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/search\/LH\">ur LH plates<\/a>? Take your pick from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/102-LH\">102 LH<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/444-LH\">444 LH<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/555-LH\">555 LH<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/700-LH\">700 LH<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/777-LH\">777 LH<\/a>. Right-handers needn\u2019t miss out either as we\u2019ve also got lots of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/search\/RH\">RH plates<\/a> available. Choose from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/6-RH\">6 RH<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/RH-30\">RH 30<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/775-RH\">775 RH<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/5544-RH\">5544 RH<\/a>. If you\u2019re a two car household and only one of you is a leftie, you could have one of each. Just make sure you park them the right (left!) way round! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re right handed, you\u2019ll never truly know the trauma of being left-handed. It can be just so troublesome when the world is set up for right handed people. You may struggle to use scissors, your ink smudges when you write and using a can opener can be nigh on impossible. 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