Cutting Your Nails

When I was in primary school. Our class monitor would check on our nails during the school assembly every Monday morning to ensure everyone in our class had cut our nails. Those who did not cut their nails would be reported to the discipline master. Not sure if such stuff still goes on in primary schools today. The reasoning is simple enough. If your nails were long, they would be more likely to trap dirt. If they trapped dirt, you would be more likely to get diarrhoea or fall sick from eating stuff from your hands.

What punishment did we get for forgetting to cut our nails? Our discipline master told us to go wash our hands.

During school fights, nails, especially long ones, can be used for scratching people until they bleed.

We have to cut our nails so that we can play the guitar,

the piano

and type away at the computer keyboard.

It's hard to do all the above stuff with long nails like these.

New routine: Cut nails every Sunday night. Can't type fast properly with long nails. Hindrance.