We are visiting my parents this weekend in Chelsea, Alabama and I ended up going to the store with my husband and my dad to pick up some stuff my mom needed. My father, who is left-handed, noticed that the guy in front of him at the register was writing out a check with his left hand (you never see checks at a grocery store anymore in Atlanta.)
My dad addressed the guy jovially: “So, us left-handers will take over the world someday, won’t we!?!”
The guy smiled and said, “You know, I think you’re right. It’s kinda funny you mention, but I actually work at a very small company, and all ten of us employees are left-handed.”
I said, “Ohmigod, that’s kinda sinister.
Have you ever had a joke or story fall completely flat?
Drunk on Life 
I don’t think I understand the Cricket’s ? E’splain- please. I’m left handed- the stores here in Georgia STILL take checks too but the fellow didn’t ‘get’ what your Dad said,eh? But you have to admit what the man said about his left-handed co-workers was interesting…
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Good morninging, Linda!
I called it “crickets” because no one got it and they just all got quiet and looked at me funny. 😦 The word “Sinister” means “on the left side” in heraldry and comes from the Latin word “sinistre”, which means left-handed, or on the left side. It was probably too early in the morning for my brand of humor.
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That is interesting about the word sinister. I love learning about all the different meanings of words. But I think the common connotation is that sinister is something with bad intentions? So I can see how the guy might have taken a double take 🙂 I wonder what that means though that everyone that works for him is left-handed. Maybe they are up to something a little sinister.
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I’m not by any means an etymologist, but there’s an interesting history of lingual bias against left-handed people. My understanding is that the word in Latin for “right” is dexter, from which the much more flattering word dexterous was derived. If you are interested, this article is pretty cool: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/39092/how-did-sinister-the-latin-word-for-left-handed-get-its-current-meaning
And thank you very much for reading!
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Happens to me ALL the time. People often don’t get my sense of humour. 😛
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Bless you. Normally I feel it’s justified as long as I laugh, but I’ve been off on a tangent lately that no one seems to get. Thanks so much for stopping by!
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