Left-handed Scissors?

Good moring!  I have been having a time with my scissors again today and to prove once again that left handed and right handed scissors are made differently I felt I had to re-post this for all the right handed people in my household that keep using my left handed scissors.

I thought today I would share with you one of my pet peeves of being a lefty...SCISSORS!!!!

If you are a lefty you know the aggravation I am feeling when faced with the task of using scissors.
In my home there are about 10 pairs of scissors , most of them right handed.

Trying to keep my left handed scissors out of the grips of the right handed people in my household has been difficult.
With so many pairs of right handed scissors why do they need to ruin mine?
The answer is, they do not put things back in their place when they finished using them so mine are the easiest pair to find when doing anything because they are put back in the place they belong when I finish using them.

Left handed scissors are made to be used by left handed people, they are made different and when a right handed person uses them they tend to pull the blades apart rendering them useless to the lefty that picks them up to use them left handed.
I have had many arguments over the years about this and I finally found an article that actually backed up my claims.

 " Right-hand scissors, the part of the scissors lying `on top' at
the intersection of the two parts, will be the one 

from top-left
to bottom-right, whereas for left-hand scissors,

 the uppermost will
be the part from bottom-left to top-right. 

Turning the scissors around

or up-side down won't change this relationship.

Secondly the reason for this difference lies in the

 way the scissors are opened and closed

 by your left or right hand.

 When you close the scissors, 

 the cutting edges close and the

 cutting edges
are pressed together because your fingers holding 

the scissors bend
and your thumb stretches.

 If the cutting edges are pushed away from
each other, the material being cut slides in between,

 and is definitely not cut.

 This is what happens when you use 

right-hand scissors
with your left hand.

Since your left hand is a mirrored version of your 

right hand,
your scissors should be `mirrored' as well.

 This is why the cutting
edges are made on the opposite side of each part, 

and the parts
are assembled just the opposite way, giving you

 perfect left-handed
scissors."

My thanks go out to Jurgen Van Engelen for 

providing the right-handed people in my
household with proof that what I have been saying all these years is so!