Left-handed scissors

I bought a pair of left-handed scissors weeks ago, and just got around to using them a couple nights back.

Verdict: I don't know how to use left-handed scissors.

I'm so used to right-handed scissors, that I don't know how to cut with the blades reversed. When right-handed people cut with scissors (I assume), they look on the left side of the blades to see what they're doing -- closer to the middle of the cutter's body.

As a lefty, I also look on the left side of the blades, but that side is away from the center of the body when held in one's left hand. Which is slightly awkward, but you adapt, and things work out. (Except that statistically, left-handers die 9 years sooner than right-handers, probably for these sorts of reasons. Not that I'm bitter.*)

Left-handed scissors are designed so that you look on the right side of the blades -- a mirror image of right-handed cutting. But I'm still in the habit of looking on the left side of the blade, and so I've made some pretty awful cuts because I can't see what I'm doing. That's the opposite effect of what I wanted... perhaps to be expected from an opposite implement.


*Although I would like to point out that if any other group made up 10% of the population and had a physical distinction of biological origin that could potentially impair job function, they'd damn well get federal funding and "protected class" status.