So, today I went dirt bike riding for probably the last time on my KDX 200 that I've had for about 5 years. You know what the sad part is? I sustained the second worst dirt bike riding injury, and definitely the most severe while riding the KDX, not that that's saying much. (The most severe being the collar bone I snapped in half while riding my dad's XR 250R.) Anywho, I'm not entirely sure what this injury is (I'm not going to a doctor, eph that. :P ) but my best theory is that it's a mildly sprained left thumb.
Now, in the past I've joked around about breaking people's thumbs if they weren't to pay me money that they owed me, but this injury has me rethinking such a proposition. Just in the past few hours I've found that there are a whole host of things that are very difficult to do with only one thumb. Some of these include:
Riding a dirt bike (duh!)
Firing a rifle
Opening a bottle
Buckling a seatbelt
Disassembling a Glock*
Unbuttoning a pair of jeans
Buttoning a pair of jeans
Tying shoes
Driving
Handling a DVD
Opening a bottle of pain medication for a sprained thumb
Drying oneself off after getting out of the shower
Opening a sandwich bag
Giving two thumbs up (yeah, should have thought that one through better)
Turning pages in a book/magazine
Washing one's hands
Text, OMG!
...and the list goes on and on. I guess at this point, for really the first time in my life, I'm truly grateful to be right-handed, if I wasn't I'd be truly ephed. And as you can see, a sprained left thumb isn't going to keep me or any other righty from furiously typing anytime soon. ;)
*Requires 10 very strong fingers.
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