Wednesday 25 April 2007

Moon Fingers

I have never met anyone with fingers like mine before, apart from my uncle George. My finger nails are pretty huge, which seems to be quite uncommon. I'm not kidding, my nails dominate the ends of my fingers. They remind me of elephant feet, but I only realised their elephant feet potential when friends started noticing how huge they are.
Whenever I have been stuck in a field or a forest at night and I can't see where I am going (because that has happened from time to time), I simply hold my hands out in front of me so that the moonlight reflects off my finger nails and we have light! Well, it's not as effective as a torch, but that'll give you a hint about the size of the buggers.
Most people don't notice my moon fingers as I usually hold a persons eye contact when I'm speaking. I guess that must be a distraction from them as most people don't notice my moon fingers until someone points them out. Which would suggest that I've either got something interesting to say or I've got a strange occurrence going on with my head that diverts attention from my moon fingers.

When a person discovers my moon fingers the response is usually, ''Ohh yeeeeeeaaaaahh'' or ''Corrrr... aren't they weird''. I have found that using offensive finger signs doesn't help, as that just focuses on my middle and/or index finger.

So please, if you discover my moon fingers for the first time, please try and think of something different, imaginative or even positive to say.
If you have moon fingers then please let our filanges meet so they can be a part of the same minority group.