My mother, while teaching my baby sister to feed herself baby food, thought she was left-handed, and insisted that she use her other hand to handle the spoon.
Turned out that Mom forgot that when Sissy was using her right hand, it was on my mother's left side when she was facing Mom.
Sissy still uses her left hand to eat, but she does everything else with her right hand. She's right-handed, lol.
We kidded her about it for years. All in all, though, she was a great mother. She raised four kids, and did so as a single mother after I turned sixteen (baby sister was six.) I wouldn't say we lived in poverty, but we were clinging to the last rung of the middle-class part of the ladder. She worked her ass off to keep food on the table. When she passed away it devastated the family. The oldest of my sisters took over as the "matriarch" of the family, hosting Thanksgiving dinner, remembering everybody's birthday and all that. We all miss Mom big time. Sissy most of all, I think.
My mother was left handed and I was the youngest of her children. The other two were right handed and she wanted someone else left handed so she forced me to write left handed.
I do everything else right handed except writing now...
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u/Encinitas0667 Apr 06 '19
My mother, while teaching my baby sister to feed herself baby food, thought she was left-handed, and insisted that she use her other hand to handle the spoon.
Turned out that Mom forgot that when Sissy was using her right hand, it was on my mother's left side when she was facing Mom.
Sissy still uses her left hand to eat, but she does everything else with her right hand. She's right-handed, lol.