Okay, that last one was an in-joke among hearing aid users. Those orange tabs are what you pull off the air-activated batteries before putting them in the aids. They made for longer fingernails than I’ll ever have; all my growing up, my piano teacher told me that if I showed up at her house with nails long enough to click on the keyboard, she would cut them or I would. Period.
To this day, long lovely fingernails are a spectator sport.
And there’s a great story to it all. But I can’t tell it yet. I know, I’m so mean…