To begin with I do not have any to speak of, I garden, I type for a living therefore my fingernails are tiny little nubs either cut or chewed down to the limit. Me having fingernails would be a little like Michael Flatley wearing hobnail boots, simply not practical. Today I was at the gas station, my car was running on fumes and I decided that it was time to give my car some fuel. In front of me was a woman driving a mini-van, she exited the vehicle and immediately I saw her fingernails, they were at least five inches long, curled over and like talons. Her attempts to remove the gas cap from her vehicle where laughable, she then retrieved the gas pump handle and was forced to use the knuckle of one of her fingers to choose the payment option and the start button. I stood there in absolute awe of this woman, someone who is so obsessed with having long fingernails that she is willing to submit herself to absolute torture in her everyday life to keep them. The nails not only looked uncomfortable and impractical but they looked grotesque, there is no practical reason for them. Long (maybe an inch) fingernails can look elegant, when I was in the Navy I was proud of my pretty 1 inch long, perfectly manicured fingernails. But five inches long?
I mean when you think about it this obsession is really damaging to this woman, how does she wipe her butt for goodness sake? How does she open a can of food. It is akin to handcuffing onself for the sake of some strange idea of beauty. Anyone seeing that person wandering around town really needs to have her in therapy ASAP, there are obviously too many issues here that need to be addressed.
