Pug wrote:RPB wrote:Almost everyone is an inch taller in the morning than at night
Whereas that is true, as I've gotten older I've actually "compressed" an inch. So if the same error was made on my CHL there would now be a 2" difference.
I only wish that they had made an error in my weight -- like about 80lbs worth!
When I was young and healthy and skinny (yes, it's true, I once was all of that AND a bag of chips), I stood 5' 10-1/2". By the time I required back surgery, I stood right at 5' 10". On the day I got home from the hospital, I stood 5' 11". The cadaver bone they used to fille the empty disc space gave me back an inch of height. That was in 2004. Today, I stand 5' 10" if I stick my chest out and suck my gut in. The future does not bode well for me. When my mother was at her tallest, she stood 5' even. Today, at 86 years old, she is a towering 4' 10"—a loss of about 3.4% in height. My dad went from 5' 9" at his tallest to 5' 8" at the time of his premature death at age 67—a loss of about 1.5% in height in 20 fewer years. I'm guesstimating that I'll be somewhere between 5' 7-1/2" and 5' 9" by the time of my own death. I intend to keep lying about my height and weight as long as I can pull it off.
But I had to give up calling my hair anything but white a long time ago.
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, "Those Who Remain"
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