I’m left-handed and growing up, in school, there were never enough left handed scissors between myself and the maybe two other lefties in my class so I would often need to use right-handed scissors. But they would either not cut paper at all or kind of tear the paper, forcing me to switch to my right hand to get the scissors to cut smoothly.
Just yesterday I needed to trim a label and no matter how I angled the scissors, they would not cut the paper but they immediately did once I switched to my right hand. Thus, how do scissors “know” which hand you’re holding them in?
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I’m a Lefty who has grown used to “right-handed” scissors. I noticed the difference (other than sometimes the handles being sculpted to one hand or the other) is that the top blade is open towards the other hand. Or, put another way, the top blade is towards the back of the hand so you get a better view of the line you are cutting.
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