On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 01:32:47 -0000, "Yokel"
wrote:

"Peter Masson" wrote in message
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| "Yokel" wrote
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| Some do care - the Nationwide building society does (or did until
| recently)
| have two pens for customer use at each position, so you could fill out
| your
| form comfortably whichever hand you chose to use.
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| Isn't there at least one bank which is able to provide left-handed cheque
| books, with the stub on the right?
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I'm not really sure what advantage you would get from this. Left-handed
people still write from left to right, apart from a very small number who
can do "mirror writing".

The spine and accumulating stubs get increasingly in the way of a left
handed writer when writing on the stubs if they are printed top to
bottom like the cheque; many banks now have the stubs printed 90deg
anti-clockwise from the cheque to get rid of that problem.

You just turn the paper at an angle so you are
writing down and towards you so you can see what you are doing. If you have
a problem smudging the stub, you can always leave that until after filling
out the cheque. If you have a problem separating the cheque, you can always
turn the book round so you can pull it away from the stub with your left
hand.

If you were taught to write *properly* at school, ie to hold the pen between
the thumb and first two fingers and angle it away from you as is required to
write with a fountain pen, writing is not really a problem as the hand
passes well below the line you write on the paper. The "lefty"s who have
problems writing are those who are "taught" to write with the hand clasped
round the pen in a "death grip" (a style which seems to me to result from an
increase in petty crime in schools - it is harder for your neighbour to
steal your pen!). This results in you dragging your hand over what you have
just written if you are a "lefty".

As it happens, I originally learned to write right-handed by copying
everyone else. Although I now can write with either hand - and left-handed
is neater - I still have to sign cheques and other documents right-handed as
that is my "official" signature and the left-handed one is very different.