It Just Creeps Me Out When...

Men have ONE long fingernail.

Case in point:




I was on the subway today, and there was an Asian man who walked on at 23rd street, stood in the doorway while people were loading on (not moving out of the way, mind you- the WORST!) and there it was. I looked up and saw it on his left hand, which was casually wrapped around the silver, germ-infested subway pole.

I gazed from his thumb to first finger, middle finger (which had a gold and turquoise ring on it,) to his third finger, and stopped breathing when my eyes reached his pinky. But somehow- I couldn't look away.

This nail was 3 times longer than the rest of his fingernails. It looked as if it was naturally french-manicured, with the peach-earthy tone working up to the semi-dirty beigey-white tip.

Seeing this creepy bodypart, I got to thinking: WHY do men do this? I have seen it before (and google images has also seen it before, as proven by the picture above) and just don't get it. Do they pick their nose with that finger? Are they doing drugs from in that nail? Why is it always the pinky? Does it get in the way when they text?

After appearing obviously disgusted, I returned back to my Candace Bushnell read to get my mind off of the dirty pinky that was looking at me across the subway car.

My memo to men who are thinking of continuing this trend of one long, pinky, fingernail: don't do it. It's nasty, tacky, and puts terrible, unnecessary questions in other peoples' minds.