Accueil - Left-handers’ Day
Left-hander’s Day, or International Left-handers’ Day, comes at a time when only cicadas should be having their say. So far, however, it has not been proven that cicadas are left-handed. On August 13, nothing usually happens. Let’s not leave it to the cicadas alone!
It was on a Friday, August 13, 1976, that this left-handed holiday was invented by a left-handed American, initially to create a left-handed union, who thought that since Friday the 13th was supposed to bring bad luck and left-handed people are “reversed”, hop, mirror, it’s the one who says who is! This Mr. Campbell hadn’t really invented the left-handed “holiday”, but quite simply International Left-handed Day. We don’t deny ourselves anything.
Everything in life should be an excuse to celebrate. Left-handed Day falls in the middle of summer vacation. That’s no problem. If it’s an inconvenience, it’s also a godsend, especially for Augusts: tomorrow, we can sleep in! So play your flonflons, but not too loudly, get out your lanterns and your pretty tablecloths or grandma’s old sheets to cover the board and trestles in the garden, zigzag the garland of loupiotes, light a few candles that pretend to repel mosquitoes and prepare some of my friend Bernard’s lovely summer salads to celebrate your left-handedness. Music Maestro, music!
Whether in a small maid’s room under the scorching Parisian rooftops, or in the rain of a summer storm in the Cévennes, a left-handed party is just one more opportunity to dance.
Why not invent a left-handed dance where everyone turns in the opposite direction? That would make quite a mess of the prom! I never realized that dances were also codified for right-handers. Let’s get it all out of the way and get on with it while the world still spins.
This question is usually asked around December 15 or 20: “What are you doing for New Year’s Eve?” Maybe one day we’ll ask ourselves the same question:
“What are you doing for Left-Handers’ Day?” “This year we’re doing a Left-handed Games evening in Lille, a left-handed family day in Charentes, we’re moving to England to drive like lefties, we’re doing something simple with ourselves at home, watching the Simpsons episode about a store for left-handed people…”
“What are you doing for Left-Handers’ Day?”
Wherever you decide to spend this left-handed holiday, know that we’re grateful. It’s not a handicap to be left-handed, but we do have to adapt all the time, so a little day just for us, a little message or just a nice opportunity to dance under the stars, it’s always worth it!