Voting Fingers

Tina, calm down. You still have time to vote for Alex Wong on So You Think You Can Dance. You did already? Sweet. Then why are you all flustered? Oh because you've noticed how irritating it is when contestants, on all live reality tv competitions, use their fingers to indicate what number they are so you know who to vote for. Just so we're clear, you mean the number at the end of the voting phone number associated with each individual contestant? I know exactly what you're talking about. Even though the hosts repeatedly says what the contestant's number is, and the screen displays what number to vote for, they still feel the need to hold up their finger numbers. And it's not enough that they hold up their fingers for example in the number 2, it's that they either:

A) flash it like those flickering neon signs

B) look at their fingers as if they're confused by them then realize it's the number 2

C) twist their wrist so you can see the number 2 backwards and forwards

D) personify their number as if the number 2 is actually jumping

E) my favorite one- look at their fingers as if they're suddenly surprised that their fingers have magically made the number 2

F) make me question the public school system when they hold up the wrong number of fingers

G) use both hands to make the number 2 so that I'm no longer sure if you are 2 or now 4, then make me again question the public school system

H) all of the above

To all future and present reality tv contestants, please take a lesson from Ricky Bobby.