My secretary tossed me my cell phone a minute ago and says:

"how come you catch things like that?"

"Like what," I says.

"You 'grab" things, but keep your pointer finger straight.  You're catching with only 4 fingers."


"Huh, WTF, Meh!?" I say.

So she tosses my keys, and same thing.

Thinking about it, I wonder if its all the time spent with handguns.   More often than not if my hand is in the "grab" mode, I've got the index finger straight and off the trigger.    

Muscle memory?

The one observation I'll make is that when I was a youngster, one of my best friends' dads had the HK pistol with the squeeze cocker and I remember it taking a lot of work to remember to separate the trigger finger from the squeezing action the rest of the hand had to perform in order to make ready the weapon to fire.   I never liked the gun because of that.

But now I wonder if I didn't wind up really training myself all those years.

Weird, eh?  


ETA:   Cool post number!  

So here's a picture of my 9422!

Quoted: Weird, eh?

Yep  

So, did you screw her or what?

Quoted: So, did you screw her or what?

Nope.   Don't get your meat where you make your bread.   You guys should know better.

We always knew you were a little off kilter, This just sonfirms it

Quoted: Quoted: So, did you screw her or what? Nope.   Don't get your meat where you make your bread.   You guys should know better.

Just askin.

Quoted: So, did you screw her or what?

Quoted: Quoted: So, did you screw her or what? Nope.   Don't get your meat where you make your bread.   You guys should know better.

Besides, if you did, things would be pointing in all kinds of directions...

Quoted: So, did you screw her or what?

Why didn't I guess this was going to happen.

Team Forum, oh wait, its team members.  

Quoted: Why didn't I guess this was going to happen.

You didn't catch that?

Quoted: Why didn't I guess this was going to happen.

I'm with you...
I index on all sorts of things - staplers, drills, even the hair drier...(for drying paint )

Do you at least keep your thumbs out of the steering wheel while driving?

Quoted: Quoted: So, did you screw her or what?

No? missed opportunity! if she was paying attention to your fingers...she obviously wanted you!

Quoted: Quoted: Why didn't I guess this was going to happen. I'm with you... I index on all sorts of things - staplers, drills, even the hair drier...(for drying paint ) Do you at least keep your thumbs out of the steering wheel while driving?

Meh.   I was a smoker for YEARS.   I can steer with my knees like no other.  

Quoted: Meh.   I was a smoker for YEARS.   I can steer with my knees like no other.

What exaclty were you smoking that required two hands...??

Quoted: Quoted: Meh.   I was a smoker for YEARS.   I can steer with my knees like no other.   What exaclty were you smoking that required two hands...??

Cigarette smokers get really good at steering briefly with their knees as they fumble for smokes and their lighter.  I never smoked in my car 'cept back in HS and part of college, but I always held the steering wheel with a knee, shrouded the cigarette with my left hand and lit it with my right.