Okay. Well. That was either:
- As disturbing as it was funny, or
- As funny as it was disturbing
But I have to hand it to that young lady …
Fun facts: you cannot use a hammer without your pinky. Some keyboard combinations become awkward and the stump(s) will always be sensitive.
You might get neurological problems (half your hand will go numb because tendons will reconfigure in your elbow).
The proposed amounts are simply too low.
As a subject expert I might even consider any amount too low. I can function perfectly well without my missing fingers, but I’d buy them back for any amount if I could.
Yes I do realise that its not an auction site
Ok, since you know that - will you accept my offer of $25 without waiting to see if anyone beats it?
Isn’t $25 too few
Coincidentally, I attended a wedding over the weekend. One guest was the friend of my BIL’s. I’ve known him 40 years. When a teen, he had a tumor in his non dominant left hand which was removed - along with his ring and pinkie fingers.
I guarantee that if you were not in a certain type of very close contact with him, you would not even notice that he was missing 2 fingers. I’ve never been golfing with him, but he drives, boats, waterskis, maintains his home… with absolutely no difficulty.
This appears to have gone by, so I assume most people accept this, but that doesn’t make sense to me. Is it a certain aspect of hammering? I can swing one fine and drive a nail (I just tried to make sure) using just my thumb and fore- and middle finger for grip, with the ring and little finger pointed out of the way. Obviously, I did not lop off my pinky, so does something happen if I’m missing one that makes this impossible?
You can have my thumbs when you pry them off of my cold, dead hands.
On my left hand I’m missing part of my index finger, most of my ring finger and all of my pinky. I can do almost anything with what is left. A notable exception is swinging a hammer. I don’t have enough control over the hammer with my left hand to do anything useful with it.
Seen from my POV, I need a pinky to use a hammer. Maybe a whole index and ring finger is sufficient.
Reading the OP, I’m willing to take the $1 million but not any more than that. That’s enough for me to retire.
But I also want there to be a good story to go with it. I don’t want to tell people, “Oh I’m missing fingers because I voluntarily had them amputated.” I want there to be a tale about how I was defusing explosives, or some industrial accident, or got bitten by an Ebola-infected monkey, or had run-ins with the mafia.
You were a member of the Yakuza who committed various offences against the mob boss. Exactly what offences I leave to your or the Teeming millions’ imagination. But each one of them requires the sacrifice of a section of a finger.
This really doesn’t make the Yakuza sound too intimidating. I would not back them against the South American drug cartels. I’m not even sure I’d back them against my grandma, she was quite fierce, I can see her cutting off more than a piece of your little finger if you disrespected her.
Well, to the answer to the OP, it’s none. While I’m neither rich nor poor, I can’t imagine my life being improved much beyond my current one with any significant amount of money. And I’m certainly not giving up my digits, because some of the things that bring me much joy in my life: playing a piano, strumming a guitar, etc., very much rely on me having most of them intact. There’s just no amount of money you can give me to give up a digit.
This is my answer, almost word for word.
[what pulykamell said]
As many as he wants is 100 to many?
Randal41 gives me faith in the new Dope generation.
Due to inflation, the minimum payment for a non-dominant pinky finger should now be closer to $170,000.