Pluggers by Rick McKee for September 14, 2022

no kiddin’

Shaking enough that I hit the wrong key on my cell is my worst problem, then when I hit the back/delete key, my big fingers hit the L quite often. This causes me to scream “What the L !” My cell causes most of my cursing…

Eh it too difficult to texts on teeny tiny onscreen keyboard with me big bear thumbs.

Those hunt and peck skills came in handy eventually.

Unless it’s : Yes … No… I prefer to talk to someone . In the long run this saves time for me .

And it doesn’t help when it auto corrects a word totally different than what you wanted and you don’t notice it before you hit send. Sent a a message to my wife that we had gone to a town called Helper, UT. The message came out we had gone to He!!.

The fatness of his fingers indicate he might be better off with a stylus to help with his texting.

I git a bunch of hep frum aw toe ker erckt tu.

I just use my index finger on my right hand. Still get things wrong when it auto corrects what I said. Have to do it twice and override autocorrect.

In my late 60s, I developed CMC (carpometacarpal) [thumb] arthritis due, in part, to my hobbies of knitting and pottery. True, age and gender (although why women should have this problem more than men is curious) have something to do with it, one of the other major causes is ‘activities and jobs that put high stress on the thumb joint’. I wonder how many ‘texters’ will develop this condition earlier than usual.

I do text because I can send the text when I need to and not spend time waiting for someone (or voice mail) to answer a phone. Plus, we both have a written record of the call. But I don’t use my thumbs. I use the stylus. It may be a bit slower, but at least I have time to catch many of the ‘corrections’ as they occur.

Big Bear Thumbs…. LOL.

Auto Complete, my nemesis.

I’ll assume Al Batt is proud of his trucker’s tan.

Because your thumbs are chubby stubby little things, not the extra fingers that millennials seem to have.