Oh the things I’ve seen

The guy holds out his hand sidways. he shows the length of his fingers, wiggles the thumb. that innocent thumb, oh...

he takes his other hand, covers the fingers from the top, only the sacrificial thumb is still wiggling. i guess by now it is beginning to suspect sonething is wrong. all eyes are on it, as the guy slowly, moves his left hand, along. pulling the right hand thumb with it.

i see no trace of emotion on the guy's face, but the pain is immense, the thumb is now completely sheered off, sitting motionless in the left hand. the guy spares me the sight of blood, just shows me the little tip that once was happily wiggling, clenched secretly in the left hand fist. like a cigarette bud.

of the right hand, the knuckle is broken off, and held inside. well, no one will want to see the mess.

the guy now, slowly replaces the left hand over the right and pushes the right thumb back in it's place. he's obviously wishing to reheal the severed thumb but things don't work like that.

except that they do sometimes.

just think of the level of training!

the right hand thumb is happily wiggling, and to show it is all well, the guy interlocks his fingers snd twiddles the thumbs!

what a master.

what did it take to acheive this level of wizardry?

i guess, he first took a cleaver and chopped the thumb off, then practiced for years and years to overcome the pain, to stealthily suture the finger with the pinky and ringfinger, to somhow suck up all the blood.

maybe after doing it so long it's like with cooks who don't feel pain when they burn their fingers.

but how does he prevent it from getting infected?

why would he go to so much trouble?

I twiddle my fingers a bit.

better practice on that for a while...