And you didn’t tell us the thumb lecture.now more messages
Wow. I missed this and I meant to finish the tale but I never did. Six years later and I am still giving the Thumb Ring Lecture. Here it is, more or less:
A young High School Girl and her Mom want matching thumb rings. “We’ll take these Mr. Meixner.”
“OK, but first look at your hand. Your fingers all taper towards the tips. The parts of your fingers that can be problematic are arthritic joints which have swollen over time. These make your rings harder to get on and harder to get off. But you most always can get them off with a little cream, soap, or just hard work. A properly fit ring ,IMHO, is a little harder to get off than on. But because of the taper of your finger you don’t have to move a good fitting ring very far and it will come off.”
Mom and Daughter are trading glances with each other.
“Now look at the thumb. It tapers in reverse with a joint behind the base of the thumb nail. Both the nail and the joint are rigid and they don’t give very way much. Between your hand and that joint/nail combination is a lot of soft tissue and a strong but slender bone.”
Right about here their eyes are going blank.
“If you can get a ring past that joint you will have a pretty loose fit on that thumb. A loose fit means, maybe, getting it caught on among other things paint bucket bails, chicken wire fences, or car doors. A tighter fit would require a ring that can just barely be jammed past the big joint which means it will be even harder to get off if you had to, so you better not gain any weight. Either way, a loose or tight thumb ring has a degree of danger. Do you still want the rings?”
That is more or less the Thumb Ring Lecture and I still sell a lot of thumb rings. I admit to being a little over the top about thumb rings. But as a person who plays guitar with reattached fingers I take hand safety seriously.
Don Meixner
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