True story:
Interviewing a gentleman yesterday as part of the work I’m doing at this high school, my eye is drawn to something sparkly. It is a pinky ring, the kind I have read about in stories about Italian gangsters but have never seen in real life- gold, thick, with a sizable diamond in the middle of it. It looks, in fact, a lot like an engagement ring, except it is on the pinky of the hand of a 70-something year-old gentleman.
As I start to look away from the pinky ring and back at the person I am interviewing, I notice something else. His nails are shiny. Really shiny. Unnaturally shiny. Like “coated in clear nail polish” shiny. Come to think of it, his hands look surprisingly well-kept in general: shiny nails, no visible cuticles, well-moisturized….when it hits me. Oh my god, this guy gets manicures. This 70-something year old man with his denim button down tucked into his high-waisted denim jeans, who is wearing cowboy boots, whose ruddy face looks much like that of a man who has spent a lot of time on a stool at his local pub, gets manicures. “Don’t judge, pseudo,” I say to myself. “There is nothing wrong with taking care of one’s hands. Try to stop staring. Stop. Look back at his face. Focus, pseudo!” Except- so *shiny*. I am transfixed. Do all men who get manicures opt for the clear nail polish? Is this like a normal thing? I am fascinated, and cannot look away from his shiny, well-moisturized hands as they gesture while he talks.
Suddenly, I notice he has stopped talking. He looks at me, tilts his head. “What are you looking at, young lady?”
“Um,” I say, panicking a little. “Your ring, sir. It’s lovely.”
“Thank you!” he says, beaming. He continues his story.
Add to the list of things I never thought I would say: thank god for pinky rings.
Quick thinking! I totally would have been like, “Ummm… shiny…” and that would have been VERY AWKWARD.
Ha ha ha! “Thank god for pinky rings” – classic.
Once *most* guys get over the hangup they’re getting their nails done, I’d argue they would go again and again and again. It’s nice to be pampered – women aren’t the only ones who love it!
i knew some guys were into it, but i didn’t think that demographic was 70-yr old mob bosses…
You need to spend more time in NY around guidos if you’re not used to seeing pinky rings.
Not all men get the nail polish.
We got Theo his first manicure the other day. The pinkie ring is on order.
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