What do you use your fingernails for?

Mine are useful all the time. Examples: pulling up tape; scratching; peeling dead skin from healing scabs; picking up coins; pulling off labels; undoing knots. How do you do those things if you don’t use your nails?

Hmm, scab picking. Now I’m hungry.

Scraping skin off garlic, breaking open fruit, peeling tape, scratching my dry diabetic skin and all these confounded mosquito bites I keep getting…

Dare I say?

Nowt, my toenails though are frequently caked in crayon as a result of my foot sketching talents, sometimes go over the lines colouring in the animals.

Picking ticks off Milo, removing the occasional chinny-chin chin hair, untying shoelaces, flicking Japanese beetles off rose bushes…

Picking scabs. Picking hard skin off my feet. Scratching.

Opening my pocket knife, peeling sticky labels off stuff, scratching me and my cat, and sometimes for biting when I’m stressed.

Sharpening the scissors.

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room : Ah yes, I forgot stress relief. A very good gauge of how stressed I am is how short my nails are >_>

Playing the guitar and picking my teeth.

Picking eye boogers.

Driving screws.

I used mine for nipping the stalks off of strawberries and putting a sharp crease in paper.