>>>>I am old enough to remember school desks that were entirely designed for right handed writers. You undoubtedly grew up with the same ones. It must have been a pain writing on them if you were left handed.
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>>>In grade school, we had actual desks with a place to store our stuff inside. No handedness there. In high school, we mostly had the chairs with arms, but there were a few lefty ones.
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>>Maybe it wasn't general then. The desks in my elementary schools were curved, with the wide part on the right.
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>This is similar to what we had in grade school:
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>http://www.hertzfurniture.com/Student-Desks--Educational-Edge-School-Desk-Poly-Bookbox--7122--mo.html?utm_content=EDG-1100&utm_medium=shoppingengine&utm_source=googlebase&utm_medium=googlefeed1&cpao=115&cpca=googlebase&cvsfa=2919&cvsfe=2&cvsfhu=4544472d31313030
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I had some of those but the curved kind I mean were even more archaic. Just a desktop, wider on the right than the left, no storage space.