Upon glancing at the selection of scissors before me, I was somewhat mortified and outraged to see a left handed pair of Maped scissors priced a lot higher than the identical right handed pair. Like, literally furious. The funny (it's not really funny it's really sad) thing is, I don't even use left handed scissors. Yes, I am left handed, but you remember those wooden blocks with the scissors in from primary school? Well the yellow and green pairs were rarer than a Mcdonald's instant win on Monopoly (probably not THAT rare to most people but I never get them, sad right) and so out of necessity I taught myself how to use right handed scissors instead. At the time lefty scissors were a rare sighting in shops too, so I ended up using right handed ones both at home and at school. All in all this means that I can't actually use left handed scissors at all. But this won't stop me from getting riled over an overpriced pair of lefty scissors. At the end of the day it's not just scissors is it? It's everything.
So what if only 11% of people will use these scissors. So what if it's a niche market. Is that my problem?? Did I miss the part where left handed people automatically have more money than right handed people?? What I don't get is that these scissors were literally identical, just with the blade flipped over. Yet they were priced for so much more than the right handed ones. In what world is it fair to charge one person more than another for the same thing? Ah yes as the lefty, the more creative person, I will just use my creative powers to cut this piece of paper with my mind. I already have to suffer with ink down the side of my hand when I write and the trauma of being shoved on the end of a desk in the corner during handwriting classes in primary school so I wouldn't bump elbows with other people, now people are trying to make money out of me because I am part of a minority. #:(
This annoyed me so much that I even started writing an email to WH Smith customer service, I would have written it by hand but like, that ink on the side of the hand thing. (I got a bit too angry and saved it to my drafts and wrote this instead) like, nothing annoys me more than left handers inequality. Except maybe hangers that don't turn at the top and people who try to make money from the shipping on ASOS Marketplace. Okay the hanger one maybe not as much as the lefty thing. Why does like no one take me seriously when I talk about #leftyproblems? People seem to think I'm joking but it's a genuine issue. They also think I'm joking when I say I still love S Club 7 but I'm 100% serious about that too.
Shoutout to my lefty homies:
