I've always wondered how humans and Silurians could live with 5 fingers. In my opinion, it's too many fingers to deal with at once. Why do you need all 5 anyway? 3 is a perfect number of fingers, and I can only find a few flaws with this logic in my position.
The boy has often asked me before how I live life with only 3 digits. I returned the question asking him how he lived with 5 digits. He wasn't all that impressed at first, but then explained his question by saying that the Planet Earth was tailored to beings with 5 fingers.
To answer truthfully, it never really was a serious issue. All weapons, gadgets and what-not I equip are generally of Sontaran make (the best, naturally), and so I have no issues using them. Even human utensils and basic tools (the 'knife', 'ladle', 'pencil' and 'sledgehammer', to name a few) are easily usable. How humans and Silurians manage to fit 5 fingers around any of these if beyond me, though.
An issue that becomes more evident in the colder period of London (a time of orbit called 'winter') is my incompatibility with a certain hand garment called a 'glove'. All 'gloves' that are sold have 5 ends, where the fingers go. Not only are there too many finger-holders, they're also too small to house stronger, wider Sontaran digits. It is widely known to most races throughout the universe that the extremities are weak to the cold. Unfortunately, Sontarans are no different, and I once got struck down with a mild case of 'frostbite', a condition which slowly damages one's skin depending on the amount of time spent exposed to low temperatures. I forced to save myself with my medical know-how, but the conditions weren't serious enough to require immediate treatment. My point is, 3 fingered 'gloves' must be immediately manufactured, especially if a Sontaran war fleet is going to invade anytime soon. I suppose we Sontarans can't afford to lose any more fingers than wide-scale cloning has already given us.
During a trip to the future, I was introduced to a game held on a computer system. 'Minesweeper', it's called. It provides excellent tactical skill training in (generally) realistic situations, though the more difficult parts are to decide between one square and another in a 50/50 situation, and the beginning selection which can prove frustrating. Anyway, this game required me to perfect co-ordination between two of my fingers, which is much more difficult than it sounds.
Typing on human keyboards becomes difficult as well, seeing as the individual keys are three times as small as one of my digits. Again, this issue was discovered in the future. In fact, the future of the planet 'London' seems to be very anti-Sontaran, compared to the era that Madame, the boy and I reside in. Perhaps I should start drawing up plans to prevent the future ever happening? I'm sure that would prove beneficial to all, as I can't see these miserable humans becoming as great as we Sontarans any time soon.
Soldier's Footnotes: So, as you can see, my main issue is not the number of digits, it's how large each one actually is.
Human's Notes: From an Anonymous request via Tumblr: "Or how strax struggles with only 3 fingers". I know, I know, the gaps between each chapter are growing, but I swear I haven't forgotten. Oh, and I actually went all-out with writing up this one. I tied up my fingers so I was constantly Star-Trek-saluting and went around the house, trying to live normally with 3 fingers. It's very entertaining. Everyone should try it at one point.