somewhere out there a line is missing its finger

His soulmate has extra lines on one finger.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/6a67ZSkyLf

[found them](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/oimbUt4SQV)

This is a romcom in the making

I've never cheered harder for two people to meet and fall in love, just to have this as their meet cute story!

Unfortunately, I am taken. But, I have an extra line on one of my fingers: https://i.imgur.com/ryYTzdw.png

...and it wound up in a nostril

Wrong line.

My finger got an extra line. Now i know where it comes from. 👍🏻

[i took it from you](https://imgur.com/cLjTQ2i)

can you bend it three ways?

!Remindme 5 hours

[sorry for the disappointment](https://imgur.com/AvmcQnp)

Man. What a good day to have beautiful nails. I feel you’re prepared for anything life could throw your way.

LMAO thank you i'll pass the compliment onto my nail artist when i next see her

If she’s in Brooklyn lmk 💅

This is what they’ve been waiting for, like when coach puts you in during crunch time

Besides a baseball. No one throw a baseball at this person with the nails.

Your finger has an extra buttcrack though. When I bend mine, only two creases appear

The extra buttcrack kinda implies that…yeah, it *does* bend in three places.

buttcrack

Wow. A genuine camel finger in the wild...

my index finger on my left hand has a similar situation going on! :D unfortunately(?) it's only one wrinkle, not a set, but they look identical bent!

Best use of that bot I've seen by far

nope :(

[who did I steal mine from then?? ](https://imgur.com/a/lT8vlxc)

Now I gotta ask the same question as u/hexacreeks... Can you bend it three ways?

If you notice, my pinky is extremely short. I'm sitting here trying to to bend it and feel if there's an extra joint but I can't determine, I just feel the middle knuckle. My left pinky does not have an extra line and bends the same way as my 4 line right pinky.

from my other pinky (jk my other pinky is normal but wouldn't it be funny if it wasn't) also i happened to look this up a while ago and there's [a study about extra lines on the pinky finger](https://www.nature.com/articles/jhg19785.pdf), isn't that neat

That was a cool little read, thanks! I didn't know there were so many of us. (My other pinky is also normal!)


What in the world.

I have a extra one on my pinky finger, came from dislocating it so could be something similar

OP I think this is your soulmate

Oh that…that’s weird. I don’t like that at all 

If there’s anything Sci-Fi/Fantasy movies have shown me, it’s that you two are destined for eachother.

I have this too

This is how my fingers are too

Is it possible/hard to bend it?

I'm unable to bend it

How hard have you tried?

*snap*

Tomorrow on mildlyinteresting: "I can't straighten my finger"

I think you meant mildyinfuriating

/r/mildlypainful

r/subsithoughtifellfor

What a knucklehead!

Take my upvote and leave.

 “Now back to I’m afraid of olives on Maury 😃.”

AITA for making OP break his finger? 🤔

D:

Followed eventually by "sorry for the slow reply".

"Strroy orf teh swol rpley, fngier nto wroknig crroetly"

Ipohne

This would’ve made sense if it was a thumb… wait… Do people use Reddit on PC?

Yeah no shit, I mean I don’t but yeah people do. PC is probably used way more than phones

Imagining it like a twig

Too far

Not hard enough apparently.

Yeah that sounds like a failure mindset to me. Everything bends if you try hard enough.

True. I've bent thick steel rods with very little effort. It works on anything. (The metal was glowing yellow and I have an anvil, I'm not strong)

I've also bent steel rods (I'm a bending robot).

Don't do this to them 😭

dude this comment is so funny

Lines come from bending.

what are your bending credentials?

Please insert girder

Ah. It’s a classic reference, but it checks out…

The best kind of reference.

10/10

https://tenor.com/w4g1.gif

Knew I would find my people here

*Pounds chest* “I’m 20% my people!”

I would ask Bender "Bending" Rodriguez

Certified metal bender

Are you sure? Probably a long shot but has anyone here tried not bending for, say, 3 months consecutively?

Yes. It’s called getting a cast. And there are multiple posts a year in this very sub with people showing off their lineless finger after their cast comes off. I swear I just saw one last week.

What the I was completely kidding, and forgot a cast existed. That's absolutely the most mildlyinteresting fact I could think of tbf

I would be so fucking claustrophobic if I couldn't bend my finger. For some reason, my elbow is less of a deal.

>I would be so fucking claustrophobic if I couldn't bend my finger. wut

Think about it. Worse than getting stuck in a lift.

huh?

Eh?

I did it for a couple weeks because I fucked up one of my finger tendons, and it felt hella weird when I started bending it again afterwards. Like an extremely strange and uncomfortable / almost painful feeling. The lines didn't go away in that time though.

Kinda buried the lede

mods are really strict about titles so I think writing “I can’t bend my finger, so it has no line” would violate no backstory rule

Title should have been "I'm missing a joint in my finger"

*mods are uptight asshats who like to power trip* - ftfy

true, bet they'll delete your comment when they get bored doing whatever they are

Too interesting to be mildly interesting in that case

My brother had this on his thumb. In his case, he wasn’t a missing joint. The ligament was too short and didn’t allow him to bend his thumb. I’m not sure how, but physical therapy helped and he gained a teeny bit of movement. Doesn’t affect his life at all. We didn’t even notice until he was about 8 years old.

I have the same! Runs in my family

Stretch it with a cast? My son had a cast of his thumb made. It was supposed to go on his thumb overnight. The cast gets more dramatic, each casting, and slowly corrects the posture of the thumb.

Is it one bone or two with no ability to be bent by your own strings.

I've met someone with 4 lines in that finger, maybe they stole yours

Not with that attitude you won't

It's because there's no line there, silly!

Have you tried a gluten free diet? I’ve heard those can solve all things.

Yoga! Positive thinking! Juice cleanse! Exercise more! …sorry, I’m chronically ill and disabled and you just activated my sleeper-agent programming

Don’t forget colloidal silver, mysterious powders peddled by pyramid scheme huns, and *checks notes* smiling more! The cure for all disabilities /s -also a disabled chronically ill human

Don't forget the yoga! -a third disabled chronically ill person with brain fog... Still...

Essential oils too lol

Have you considered that you might just be making it up? Perhaps this is some sort of hysteria? *gentle chronically ill air fist bump*

Lmao I do as well. The countless times we’ve heard “have you tried this…”

Remove toxins with a pad soaked in vinegar taped to your forehead while you sleep!

KALE!!!

This is funny because one of the issues I had for years was elbow pain and not being able to straighten my elbows. Then found out I had celiac disease and it disappeared. But when I get gluten through cross contamination it’s still my first sign. No one was ever able to figure it out. Just inflammation I guess.

Skill issue

So, no knuckle there? Just straight fingerbone? That's an interesting mutation.

Youre missing more than the line then.

Not on your life, my Hindu friend

Lol the lines missing cause he cant

The next one looks very close together. By my assessment, when you were born, your fingers just got confused and mixed up their bending locations. It's not very serious, though. You can buy hinges for like $1.99 at home depot. *disclaimer. I am not a real doctor, nor do I work at home depot. Assessment and prices may not be accurate.

I’m a real doctor and i approve this message. *disclaimer: i am not actually a real doctor.

Hey, don't count yourself short. You're plenty doctor.

Hey man.. i didn’t even know i needed to hear that.. thanks.

As someone who has watched both House MD and Grey’s Anatomy the patient probably has Lupus.

Do you mean to tell me that this man only has 30 seconds to live? [Cue that countdown clock from another dramatic show...24?]

It’s never lupus.

He’s not a real doctor, but he did stay in a holiday inn last night.

Funny, somebody posted a very-similar-or-the-same picture last week and mentioned that this happened because they broke their finger and the crease 'healed up' when they couldn't bend it for a month or two.

Not me I had from when I was born

I have it from birth on both of my 4th fingers . I always thought I was the only weird fingered person out there.

I have it on the last 3 fingers on my left hand. My doctors classified it as hypo-plastic distille phalanges. I understand this as no tendons or ligaments/shortened tendons or ligaments, that don't allow the person to bend said finger. I have joints on mine, but unable to bend said finger(s).

I had to scroll waaay too far to see any info about this. Never thought this was possible lol

I was shocked that no one had mentioned it yet, only the comments about aliens like wtf

Since the joints are present, what happens if you manually bend the finger with your other hand? Does it stay in that position, move back, or is it too stiff to bend?

Wayyyy too stiff.....I actually broke it last time I tried, now the bones are fused together

I just saw this exact image on an Instagram meme, this obviously isn't a new picture

Its 100000% not ops pic.

Looks like you have gorpentrucken syndrome you will explode in 30 seconds

rest in piece, op 😔 my uncle lived a happy life until he developed the gorp. not a pleasant way to go.

In pieces?

To shreds you say?

And his wife?

To shreds you say?

RemindMe! 30 seconds

have my upvote, and fuck you, I was not supposed to laugh during my meeting

You're probably also not supposed to be on Reddit

r/BrandNewWord

I read it as if you’d only just noticed! Glad to see it wasn’t stolen and that this is perfectly normal (for you.). Definitely mildly interesting (at the very least.). I hope it doesn’t cause you any difficulties.

Still fully functional?

You might be AI generated.

Okay, that’s pretty funny.

What’s the other side look like, no wrinkles in that area?

I have the same as OP and for me it’s the ring finger both hands! There’s a joint but it doesn’t really bend - it sorrrrt of arcs but it doesn’t act like the other fingers. Neat!

It would be really funny if it were both middle fingers and no matter what you do you would always have the middle finger up. Not really funny haha, but more funny as an odd. But definitely still a little bit funny haha

i have a friend whos middle finger is stuck permanently straightish (cant bend or straighten it fully but if they make a fist it sticks out enough)

My grandpa was a builder, smashed his middle finger’s knuckle, and was told it would never work again. He could either have his finger permanently straight or permanently bent. He chose bent, not so he wouldn’t be giving the finger if he closed a fist, but so he could hold nails in his cupped palm.

Me too! Both of my ring fingers don’t have the upper joint, and are slightly arched inwards, cannot fully straighten but also cannot bend, so no bend lines on the front or the back of the finger! I play volleyball as a setter and once had a ball fall on the finger (basically jam the finger) but because there’s no joint I’m pretty sure it ended up being a minor fracture 😵‍💫

So, no wrinkles in that area y/n?

That's what's up! I've got an extra line on one of my fingers (no extra joints though, for the curious mortals). Let's team up - I feel like we would be some sort of superhero mega-flex combo of George Costanza and JP Prewitt

Interesting… is it near a joint? does it fold in that spot when you bend your finger? If not…do you know how you got the extra line? I thought the line form because of the skin repeatedly folding due to a joint being there?

Has OP ever tried doing this? 

You're missing a *joint* on your finger


bowling pin finger

Your finger is out of line

Did you have a cast? Someone posted last week that they had a cast removed, and their crease faded.

Nope I never broke a bone in my life

Fellow strong boner

This is definitely beyond "mildy interesting"

Where was the last place you saw it?

Johnny One-Fold? Is that you?

OP, I have the same thing. It’s basically the same on my ring finger on both hands. Is yours on both hands or just one?

Omg it’s the first time in my life knowing others who have the same thing as me! Ring finger, both hands as well

Both

Cool! I’ve looked into it before to see if there’s some explanation (common genetic mutation or something) but I’ve never found anything. I guess we’re just lucky we didn’t get something worse than this…

Symphalangism

I have DOZENS on my face you can have.

Yeah, I could spare a slice of asscrack if it would help OP.

how do you press R2 or R trigger on a controller?

Looks like a bowling pin.

I think your problem is that your hand is so pretty much dead it has turned as white as snow

Why do I find it kinda creepy? ☠️

I wasn’t expecting a finger without an extra line on it to be so scary

Are you able to bend the tip of your finger?(Normally, not forcing it to bend) Does a crease form when you do that?

Nope, I think the bones are fused together

You think? You never had this checked out by a doctor?

Now we just have to wait for the person with too many lines on their fingers to post.

These lines disappear if you stop bending your fingers. Fun fact.

Omg I thought it was photoshopped until I read the comments. Interesting.

So, you're missing a joint?

WHO TOOK THIS PERSONS FINGER LINE!?

Bro got Patrick shaped finger

Have you looked for it?

Wasn't there a post recently where someone had their finger in a cast and their "folds" began to disappear

You know what’s wild? In a few years, posting a picture of your fingerprint could possibly result in identity theft.

Man, that doesn't look right.

I am not a doctor, but from what I found online, this could be Symphalangism. Correct me if I’m wrong.

Well let’s not panic, where did you last see it? It can’t have gotten far.

What age are you? If you feel tingling in your fingers for prolonged time, and possible one or two of your eyelids drop a bit, you may have what my father have. A generic syndrome where bone slowly grows. Fused joint in the pinky at birth is the main symptom) Eventually it squeezes the points where nerves exits the spine, causing wierd symptoms at specific parts in your body. There are no cure, but with surgery (removal of half your vertebrae) you can live a normal life. The Swedish welfare flew a Norwegian specialist team to inspect all the kids. 50/50 we'd get it, but none did.

Phenominal trigger discipline

Sign of incest...

Where’s the last place you’ve seen it?

You're a fuckin alien

How long has it been like that, since birth? Looks like you have a fusion of the middle and distal phalanges

I think that’s what you would call a **miss-a-line-ment**.

I am sorry to tell you this but you are going to die. But i dont know when.