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I like my fingernails short and unpolished and unadorned--probably holdover form those years in nursing school when that's the way they had to be. My nails grow fast, and I was looking for the nail clippers this morning to pare them down again and couldn't find them.
I have three nail clippers, but while cleaning up this weekend, managed to mislay all of them. I got to thinking what if nobody had invented nail clippers? (And who came up with this wonderful invention anyway?)
Cave men must have had long ragged toenails that scraped on the stone floors of their caves--and imagine the shape of their fingernails--split, dirty, uneven, often ripped off into the quick--Brrrr! Did they use the edge of a sharp rock to cut them, or chew them off or what?
It's inventions like nail clippers that make day to day living easier and more comfortable. Even the pharoahs and kings and queens of old would have been so pleased to have a pair of common nail clippers, one of those small everyday things we take for granted.
Susil
