Thump
This is my oddball right thumb; some people call this deformity 'hammer thumb'. It makes playing guitar delicately difficult, or clumsily crap.
I met another woman with a thumb like this on a Community Leadership course: we became friends and she told me these big toe-like thumbs are the result of poor nutrition in the womb.
The thumb on the left hand is similar, though not so bad; both thumbs are seriously double-jointed. I used to draw on the left thumb, making it into a nun with a cowl and a puzzled expression on its nail-face; Climb Ev'ry Mountain, I thought.
Once, a Nun came to school to do work experience when I was in the fifth form.
She asked me to pin a chart up on the blackboard with drawing pins. Blackboards are made of hard wood which is resistant to pins, and it took a huge amount of effort to shove the pin into the wood; my thumb locked and then suddenly flipped into double-jointed mode, and the drawing-pin rapidly reversed itself and embedded itself in the pad of the offending digit.
'F*CK', I yelled at max teenage volume.
The Nun stiffened and her pale eyelashes quivered.
After a moment of silent shock, she carried on with the lesson as though nothing at all had happened; scared, the class followed suit.I wouldn't have believed it myself, but the little bead of blood on my thumb told me otherwise after I'd sloped back to my desk.
2 Comments:
I can't play the guitar with normal thumbs!!
It doesn't look that unlike mine. Perhaps we're genetically linked by a McDougall or Lyon thumb. I need to go and look at other people's thumbs and see if I'm different.
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