Ben by Daniel Shelton for March 30, 2024

Over a garbage can?

I do mine right where I am now, but I keep a clear plastic shopping bag over my foot! Also don’t use “nail clippers”. I bought a small angled nippers. Requires less force to use.

Since the weather is warmer now I do that outside.

I remember my dad once clipping his fingernails in church! He got soundly called out by the pastor.

I do it in my bedroom but have no one to direct my life choices. I really like that.

Do it in the bathroom, AFTER you get out of the tub, so your nails are soft. Then you shake out the bathmat to dispose of the clippings. Yeesh.

Weather permitting I do all 20 nails out on the deck then brush them down between the boards so the tiny organisms that live down there can have lunch.

Husbands are so hard to train.

Is it suddenly summer there? Not long ago, they were huddled under blankets.

I had to break up my post. I couldn’t post both sentences as one.

Notice that he has his foot propped up and pointing ceilingward. You can’t do that in the bathroom unless it’s really REALLY small.

How about outside? Then you don’t have to go looking for them! The ants repurpose them as beams!

Okay, now that’s just nasty!

I’m impressed he’s flexible enough to cut his own toenails

Better yet take it outside so they can get aired out.

Scissors do not send projectiles flying. If you must use nail clippers, eye protection is advised.

Men just do gross things. It’s in their genes.

I’m impressed. Ben can reach his toes with his leg against his chest. I haven’t been able to do that in 20 years!