little bitty girl

I have this weird thing I can do with my toes. It comes courtesy of my oldest brother Ken, who has toes that are almost the same length as his fingers, the damn chimpanzee!

He has really beautiful, piano playing fingers, tapered and bony. Well, his toes are very much the same. At some point in his young age, he thought it would be very funny to learn to pick things up with his toes. It got to the point where he's supremely ambidextrous with both his feet. And as a way to create a new "torture" for his younger siblings he also taught himself how to pinch really hard with his toes. And when we would have dinner, and my parents were quite serious about family dinners, he would pinch us randomly with his toes.

Anyways to get him back, I too, learned to pinch with my toes. I don't, however, have his monkey feet. I have quite normal feet, thank-you-very-much. So I have had to practice quite hard to get this ability. I now can pick things up quite easily with both feet. And unfortunately for Stef and brothers, whenever they don't click the remote fast enough for me, they often get the lighting pinch via toes. It's quite a handy trick and I highly recommend learning to do it.