Reflection on: "Man From The South"

Although the soldier said he never used his left pinky for anything, I think he would quickly realize just how much he did indeed use it, if he had lost the bet and had it chopped off. I too am right hand dominant and I use my left hand and all of its fingers for many of my daily activities. I find that I use it quite a lot. In fact, as I type this blog, I use my pinky fingers to hit certain letters on the keyboard. When I ride horses it's my pinky fingers that give a great amount of precision and control in regard to holding the reins and effectively communicating with the bit in the horse’s mouth. Ok, but enough about me, let’s get on to the characters in the story.  I have to say, I was relieved that the soldier did not get his pinky chopped off but was surprised and a bit saddened that the wife of the betting man had so many missing off one of her hands. If the wife of the betting man was my client, I of course would first go through the proper and necessary steps to find out just what occupation she wanted to address and why. Since in the story she left to go get her hair washed, let’s just say she really enjoys washing and taking care of her hair. Washing her hair would definitely be an occupation that would be affected if she only had her thumb and one other finger on one of her hands. The story did not exactly say what other finger was left on her hand, either way only one finger and her thumb would greatly impact how she washed her hair. Sure, she could do it using only one hand, but it would take longer and cause the hand, wrist, elbow, and shoulder that she was using to fatigue quickly. It would take longer to get a good lather of the shampoo and she might tend to get one side of her head better than the other. Same goes for when she conditioned her hair after she shampooed it. She might tend to over condition one side more so than the other. So back to horses for just a second, when I am giving my horse a bath, I wear a special scrubbing glove on my hand. The glove is waterproof and has tiny little rounded raised pumps that are a bit like small teeth of a comb. The glove helps to lather the soap and loosen dirt and dead skin cells. Why am I mentioning this? Well, one modification I would use for the wife of the betting man to help her more thoroughly and easily wash her hair is a special fitting grooming glove on the hand that only had one finger and thumb. This would allow her to use both arms, shoulders, elbows, and wrists. Actually, it would help her to use better full body alignment because she could push into both feet evenly and possibly not have to curve her spine while washing her hair since she could use both arms thus using both sides of her body more evenly. Using the washing glove would allow the wife of the betting man to get a more even shampooed and conditioned hair as well as a sense of pride because she did it independently.