There once was a place called Kranky town. The reason for its name, as you may have guessed, is the folks who lived there were, well kranky. Now there are lots of reasons to be kranky. But, the reason folks in this town were kranky had a lot to do with their thumbs.

You see, the folks who lived in Kranky town rarely gave their thumbs a chance to truly live. By living I mean do the things that thumbs do like hold a friend’s hand, strum a guitar, read an old fashioned book (made of paper and binding), or simply wave and say, “Hi.” Instead, they spent a lot of time on their human’s phones — from sun up until sun down, checking the news (so scary!), seeing what their friends are doing, and watching people make things over and over again.

After years and years of this, their thumbs just got pissed. And, stayed pissed. Now folks are kranky and live in Kranky town.

BUT, it doesn’t have to be this way. You can make your thumb happy. Happy thumb, happy life!

There are lots of ways to make your thumb happy. It all begins by having the courage to put down those cell phones. Here at the Kranky Thumb Collective we are working to slow our scroll and to remember what it means to be human without those screened devices.