Actually, it is my thumbnail that suffered the damage but i am not going into a debate as to whether that counts as a finger.
To be honest it cannot even be described as 'damage' in that I did not even notice that it had happened until some time after the event.
And I suppose that in the normal course of events the part that is now missing would have been eliminated by my sporadic attempts at cutting my nails.
So what is the problem? The problem is that I now face a major challenge using my cell phone ... about the only way I can depress the keys is to hold it upside down and hope that the other side of the nail will make some form of contact.
I blame Nokia for this. In my experience Nokia is only surpassed by Motorola for uselessness. I only bought this phone because it was the cheapest way of getting to use city maps and a Chinese dictionary.
It did not take long to discover that my largish fingers and soft pads could not easily depress the keys. Two rims of metal around the keys also formed barriers to contact.
I solved the problem by growing my thumbnail longer and then cutting it to a shape that produced a satisfying response every time.Us left-handers are known as lateral thinkers!
The only problem is that although I write left handed I can only manipulate a cell phone with my right hand . . . and it is the right hand thumb nail that has broken.
:wtf:I now have some idea why some women go to pieces when they break a nail.