33 - The length of my...

...space bar! (What were you thinking?)

Does the space bar on the keyboard have to be a mile long? It's name says it all. It's a 'bar', people, and not a 'key'. On my keyboard, the space bar is the size of C, V, B, N and M combined. What's even crazier is that it gives us space. That's nothing.The space bar doesn't even create anything but nothing. It's long and domineering, but it essentially doesn't give us a character. Instead, it gives us emptiness, a digital vacuum, 'space' on the screen. Observe:

[ ] <--- See? ...Nothing.

Couldn't the space bar just have been a regular-sized button like the rest of them? I mean, assuming that our fingers are in place, our thumbs are more or less in the center, right? It's not like I'll suddenly think to myself one day: Oh, I feel like going on a whim today. I'm feeling frivolous! Perhaps instead of using my thumb to press the CENTER of the keyboard, I shall venture to the very extremities of the space bar and apply pressure to, let's say, the LEFT end of it. Oh, boy, I'm living on the edge now!

Really, why does it need to be so long? It just needs to be a small, square key. At least 'Shift' and 'Enter' and perhaps some others have more reason to be bigger, but why this space... bar, this bar of space, oh, it infuriates me!