Hints from Heloise: What’s this lefty

WHEN TIGHTENING NUTS AND BOLTS

Dear Heloise: Concerning the righty-tighty, lefty-loosey confusion, I’m from the old school when clocks were round and had 12 digits on them. To tighten a nut or bolt, you would just turn the nut or bolt in a clockwise direction. To loosen, you turn it in a counterclockwise direction.

The only exception to this is if a bolt has an “L” stamped on it. If it has the “L,” you do the reverse of the above. It stands for left-hand threads. I never could understand why the righty-tighty, lefty-loosey idea ever started. Are you looking at the top or the bottom of the nut or bolt when you use it, and how do you know? -- Chuck Smoley, in Sioux City, Iowa

ADVANTAGES OF CURSIVE WRITING

Dear Heloise: Over 70 years ago, when I was a litle girl, my mother, my sister an