Pinkies and ring fingers, and it hardly requires any thought*. I’d have to relearn to type, but I’ve seen people get along just fine with only three digits on a hand. It’s amazing how the brain adjusts with the help of a good Occupational Therapist.
*What little hesitation there is surrounds the risk of phantom limb(ish) pain, but I know a good acupuncturist who’s great at treating that, so…sure. Cut away.
You can get some good OT with $1.875 million, i’m sure. Ordinarily I would add something cruel about acupuncturists but I am never rude to ladies on Tuesdays.
Both pinkys go. I hate those things anyway! They just get in the way.
I guess I’d have to relearn how to type though… but people do.
Oh shit, I didn’t read the whole list. Sixty four million dollars for my dominant thumb?
Hell to the fucking yes. The thumb goes.
Jesus, who wouldn’t? You can teach yourself to switch hands, and anyway people live fine lives without thumbs plus a prosthetic robotic thumb just might cost quite a bit less than sixty four million.
I mean sixty four million? That’s ecstatic long life money right there, and enough to leave for the kids as well.
Oh you have to give up all the fingers below.
Never mind.
Do we need to demonstrate which hand is dominant and which is non-dominant? I only need three fingers on right hand to use a mouse but four to use WASD for gaming on the left.
Trying to cheat probably means waking up with zero money and zero fingers in a ditch so I guess I’ll just sell both pinkies. Cash and a conversation starter, not too bad.
For $127,875,000 I’d consider losing all the fingers, and subsequently grafting my toes onto my hands.
At that price, giving up the pinkies seems like a no-brainer. It would make typing a hassle… but when you figure that $375k is probably 10% or more of my total lifetime expected earnings, it’s a good deal. Especially since I’m receiving that money early enough in life to get some real savings and investments from it. Heck, just getting the mortgage paid off with half of that money would be saving me $12,000 a year. I’d almost give up the pinkies just for the $12k a year.
Honestly, the bigger issue than lost productivity is that I’d rather not have to constantly answer questions about how I lost my fingers. But for that much money…
I might add in the ring fingers. Honestly, an extra $1.5 million is enough cash that I wouldn’t even have to work anymore. But I do feel like I’d start to make some real sacrifices in quality of life at that point.
Are we allowed to get toe thumbs afterwards? Not to hijack the thread, but there is nowhere that this would be legal, is there?
1/8 of a million for the pinky on my non-dominant hand? Yeah, I’d probably do that without thinking about it whole lot. F.U. lazy non-dominant pinky!
I’d probably be willing to lose my pinkies for $375,000.
There’s a phrase I like to use when I spend money to make my life easier: “This is why I have a job.” In this case, I have a job so I don’t have to sell my fingers.
No thanks.
But Skald, I have to say, you are eerily close to the amount I would need to go in on this. Multiply everything by 2.5 and I’ll give you four fingers. You creep.
What do I get if I just get my nails trimmed very close?
mmm
I play the piano, so even if I were willing (and I’m so not) it would ruin or severely hamper one of my huge pleasures in life. So zero.
If I didn’t play? Still zero. But that’s more just horror.
Not selling any fingers. I need them all for playing my various musical instruments.
If this wasn’t so funny I’d guess you to be an insurance man. Or, possibly, woman. I say no to all those choices. I’d rather be broke than acquire money that way. Now, I suppose if mom needed an operation, she’d have to start saving up.
If I had a bit of time to prepare, I might opt for option 4, and beforehand find a suitable finger-donor from a Developing country who would accept a much smaller payment than I would, and have his fingers immediately grafted onto my stumps. That way I might end up with money and fingers.
When you say “my fingers”, do you mean fingers I just happen to have in my possession, or do they have to be the ones currently attached to my hands?
Option #1. My non-dominant fingers have barely worked since I broke my left wrist, and I’d sell the billionaire the entire hand for $5,000,000.
Hah! You missed out those of us with crap fingers. Mine are almost all fucking awful, so I’ll give up most of them. I’ll keep the thumb and my ring fingers so that I can occasionally make a grip as well as type.
(My typing these days is like watching a petrified octopus work its way across a keyboard. :D)