So over the past week, I've been dealing with a very frustrating situation. I won't go into details, but when someone wants to shatter everything you've worked for for years in order to satisfy a personal, trivial grudge based on their own lies and false accusations, it's rather upsetting and not at all pleasant. I've told a few of my closest friends and my mate, but I didn't wish to spread it around due to the severity. I believe the situation is over with and in my favor, though my reputation may have been damaged by this assailant (I don't know, considering the overwhelming support I received from the people who would have lost respect for me). Shame, but the past is in the past.

Here's where my confusion comes in. Tonight, my accuser brought in a parent. Typical stuff, he gave a long list of credentials and the powerful people he knew, spoke his piece, and then I spoke mine. In the end, before he left, I offered to shake his hand. I'm a lefty, I've been that way all my life. He extended his right hand, looked at me as though I'd spit on him, and said "I don't do left hands." Now, I had to shake his right hand, at this point there was no denying it. But here's the thing, when someone refuses to shake your left hand, is there some kind of hidden meaning there? Part of me is offended because I didn't choose to be left handed. I wonder if it is related to the nature of the false accusations I was defending myself against or if it was religious based. The only other person I can ever think of who looked at me as though I was a freak for offering my left hand was from the exact same religion. Can anyone offer clarification here?