You all know the lady I’m talking about here. The one with the freakish fingernails that just couldn’t bring herself to cut her nails. She broke them off when she was thrown from a vehicle in an accident. She can at least beat herself up now for not wearing a seat belt. Wearing a seat belt may have saved her nails, besides keeping her from being ejected from a vehicle. Once I read that she has thought about cutting her nails but couldn’t do it. Maybe she will keep them to a non freakish length now.
Even if this is the case she could have got someone to do it for her. I have no sympathy for people who don’t wear their seatbelts. They should put this lady in driver’s ed videos: “even if you don’t care about your life, think of your appearance!”
Every time I see footage of one of these long-nailed people, my nailbeds ache in sympathy with theirs. I think of the nails being bumped a bit, swaying to and fro, gaining some momentum and ripping out of their beds… :eek:
People like that seem self-centered and vain to me, in that they must impose on everone to do basic stuff for them all the time so they dont break a nail. Talk about skewed priorities. Besides, just eww, they’re horrible looking.
I doubt she was that much of an imposition, she probably just adapted and learned to do things slightly different. IIRC, she’s a hairdresser, and the nails weren’t stopping her from doing her job. It’s not like she woke up one day to find she had freakishly long nails.
Still, I like long nails myself, but that’s a bit too long.
Imagine the conversation at her house before the accident:
Nail Lady (yelling): “Who’s on wipe patrol today? I just had a big BM and I’m tired of sitting here. Oh, grab a tampon while you’re at it.”
Little Timmy: “Bullshit on that whole honor thy mother and father meme. I’m not wiping that old lady again today. I threw up after breakfast. Dad, you do it.”
Nail Lady Husband: 'I thought she complained every month when her period came. This is misery, sticking it up there, pulling it out. Yuck!"
Little Sally: “It’s embarrassing to be known as the Nail Lady’s kid”. People don’t say, “kiss my ass”, they say “wipe my ass” and they think it’s hilarious. I want to start over in another city."
Nail Lady Husband: “If one of you will feed her later, I’ll wipe her this time - but I’d better get credit and have a day off later on this week.”
Little Timmy: “Whatever you say Dad, thanks. My stomach just can’t take it right now. Mom’s B.M.s really stink.”
And when you get your period, they generally weaken more anyway, and break off then. Plus you must do nothing. Even typing grinds them down…so she must not type. I keep my nails at a healthy attractive length and yet they break no matter what.
Forget putting her seatbelt on, how the hell does she even get in the car? In that picture she looks fairly neat and clean, who combs her hair? How does she put on her clothes? How do her days go?
I just cracked my knuckles. How could she do that? How does she put food in her mouth?
She probably uses a wiping stick for the morbidly obese. And I’d imagine she could manipulate things like combs and lipsticks and car keys and forks between her knuckles. Hell, I can even write with a pen gripped between my knuckles, and my fingertips out of the way.
But a hairdresser? How does she wash people’s hair in that tiny sink, with those grody keratin sickles? Do her clients get to wear eye protection?
I gather that the wiping Q is answered by demonstration in the embedded video in the related article of the OP’s link. I didn’t watch; I guess, maybe I can see how she could adapt, although I am amazed at the idea of her being a hairdresser.
The related article is sad.
Blergh.
That’s so sad. You can be different! (a good message)
You can be famous for no other reason than what most would consider poor hygiene/perverse oddity-attention seeking! (not so good)
You travel and talk to school kids to inspire them and all you have is a life as a retired beautician and really long nails? Ugh. We need more Richard Dawkinses, please, not “an aging Barbie doll.”
But she does sound like a really sweet lady, really. And as traumatic as being ejected from a car is, to live to survive, albeit without the unkempt keratin you’re known for, well, it’s probably a blessing. Of some sort.
According to Wikipedia - well we know how reliable that can be:
Giving haircuts to her grandchildren? Caring for a husband who suffers from AD?
Hard to believe. The mental image of her trying to wipe her butt and then get the nails clean is not an appetizing one.
At least she found a way to get them cut off that, while traumatic for her, was really the least bad thing that happened that day. And since they all went at once, she had no chance to cut one off and then chicken out. This way she can wake up, and it’s all over, and she probably won’t even care, she’ll be so happy to just be alive.
Sucks, though. Hope they weren’t the CAUSE of the accident.
