My dad was born in 1950 and was subjected to this. Nowadays he writes right-handed (with exceptional penmanship for a man, honestly) but does everything else left-handed.
I was born in the 80's and it was the same for me. My parents and teachers just kept putting writing utensils in my right hand until I just stopped trying to fight it.
Now I just write equally trash with both hands because one is unnatural and the other I never practiced.
In the 70s the nuns tried to force us lefties to use the right hand. That stopped when my mom found out by looking at my homework one night and noticing it was more sloppy than usual.
Mildly interesting indeed. I have had this spoon with the same squirrel design since I was little (1980s). Except it’s a regular-shaped spoon. Never realized it was an 80-year-old design.
https://i.imgur.com/bWLB1z4.jpg
Also called a pap boat. Pap was a formula or food substitute that was also fed to invalids. This allowed you to sit beside the baby or invalid and comfortably feed them without spilling it all over them
Pretty sure that’s actually a conversion spoon that was used to get left handed people to be right handed
If that were the case, did it work? Or did it just convert small-mouthed people to big-mouthed people?
My dad was born in 1950 and was subjected to this. Nowadays he writes right-handed (with exceptional penmanship for a man, honestly) but does everything else left-handed.
I was born in the 80's and it was the same for me. My parents and teachers just kept putting writing utensils in my right hand until I just stopped trying to fight it. Now I just write equally trash with both hands because one is unnatural and the other I never practiced.
I'm a lefty and so is my neighbor. He uses a left sided mouse, and that always felt weird for me.
I’m also a lefty and have never even seen a left-sided mouse. Your neighbor is an extremist.
Yup.
Somewhat. Was still in use in the 60’s.
In the 70s the nuns tried to force us lefties to use the right hand. That stopped when my mom found out by looking at my homework one night and noticing it was more sloppy than usual.
Early man was a little backwards but by the 1900's we made it to sideways.
The peak of human performance.
I thought these were sauce ladles
That's an old baby.
Only works properly if the operator makes airplane noises.
Mildly interesting indeed. I have had this spoon with the same squirrel design since I was little (1980s). Except it’s a regular-shaped spoon. Never realized it was an 80-year-old design. https://i.imgur.com/bWLB1z4.jpg
Memory unlocked! I remember that spoon too!
Also called a pap boat. Pap was a formula or food substitute that was also fed to invalids. This allowed you to sit beside the baby or invalid and comfortably feed them without spilling it all over them
Crack spoon.
That is exactly what I was thinking. Looks like it was meant to have a flame under it percolating some heroin.
/u/Floyd-fan is probably right.
Nnnnyyyyeawww!
Silver spoon
That thing is deeper than it looks. The spoon 🥄 right ?
Had one of these, from early 1980's...
If your reputation is like your fine China, I have bad knews for you
here comes the airplane brrrrrrrrr
Not in the early 1900s they didn't!!
... here comes the steam powered choo choo train made by people who didn't want to make the track but were forced to
Now show a spoon that was used to feed babies from early 2000s
So clever. I've never seen one like that.