dauphin

What a drag it is getting old........(guitar lick inserted here)

maddmaxx 

I know where the shrunk mass has gone!

oilman_15106

When I was in HS and got weighed for the HS football program. I suddenly was 5'8" 135lbs! My dad was the coach. At the time if I was 5'7" 125 I was soaking wet. Like the Witch of the West, today I'm melting.

crtreedude 

Listen bub - I check my weight everyday but my height is considered a constant for the universe. If we were to find out it was in error - well, I am not responsible for the possible reprecussions.

Besides - take anything that is a certain dimension and squeeze it so that it is shorter - the mass has to go somewhere, right?! This explains the deforming our our past wonderful shape. I don't know about the rest of you, but this makes total sense to me. The reason my middle was larger is that gravity deformed me. A little shorter and that means the mass had to go somewhere.

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

DougG

I just finally came to grips with no longer being 6' tall. That was always a slight round-up anyway, but now I'm definitely no more than 5'11". Messes up my weight-to-height ratio, too. What's more, I have officially downsized to medium shirts instead of large. Part of this is due to general "size expansion" of men's clothing, part to being more fit, and part to general shrinkage with age (and there's no blue pill to combat that shrinkage!).

DnvrFox

You think it is bad measuring your height - and if it has decreased?

Try measuring your IQ!

cccorlew

No man in America is 5' 11" or even 5'10.5".
They all round up to 6 feet. If you fail to round up, you riak being deported to a shorter country. All other 5'10,5 men will hate you for outing them, and they'll say you can't measure properly and are a communist to boot.
So stick with 6 feet, just to be safe.

crtreedude 

I will say it is all the women's fault - they want us tall, dark and handsome - well, 1 out of three ain't bad...

BlazingPedals

I must be bucking the trend. I always gave my height as 5'10", but that was on a good day. 5'9.5" was more like it. Then a couple years ago the doc measured me on the same scale he's always used, and I was 5'11"! That's what I've been ever since.

Bud Bent

I shrunk, too. From a max of 5' 11", I'm now less than 5' 10". On my back xray, my vertebrae layout has as many curves as a mountain road, so I had no trouble explaining where my height went. The doctors told me that everyone's lower discs dry and shrink, so I guess there's still some height loss even if your back stays straighter than mine.

jhglaw

I was always told I was exactly 6' tall by whoever weighed and measured me at various doctors's offices from the end of eight grade until the last time? I was measured maybe when I was 40 or so. Last year while waiting for my wife in an osteopath office (in the morning), I saw a completely different device that the osteopath said is much more accurate. It indicated 6' 1/2" at age 56. She insisted that her device was accurate and properly calibrated. I think this is about right since it corresponds to the amount by which the top of my head has grown beyond my hair since my mid 40's.

I_Bike

See, I've always been short, fat and dumb - so none of this is new to me!

DnvrFox

But, it would seem, you are inexorably getting shorter, fatter and dumber.

I_Bike

But I'm used to it... it just feels right.

67walkon

Oh to be 18 and over 6'3" again! At 18, I was almost 6'4" and 185. At 57, I'm "almost" 6'3" and 189. Actually, I think I've lost about 3/4", mostly from years of playing basketball, running and other things that compress all that soft stuff between the disks in the spine. I still claim 6'3" because I'm there in shoes.

My youngest (16) kid is about an inch and a half taller than me, or maybe he's really my height that I used to be!

East Hill

I've had one done, and they were very happy to tell me that I am still at 99% of what a typical 25 year old female is supposed to be. I was told to keep doing whatever it was that I'd been doing--which consists of walking,cycling, and lifting those 140 pound containers at work...

East Hill

maddmaxx 

I take back anything that I may have ever said that might have offended you

Beverly

I came to grips with not being 6' tall years ago

I'm now 5'3" and that's an inch less than high school.

East Hill

My job is rather specialised, and we have a specific exemption from the 'not over 70 pounds' standard that applies to the rest of the USPS employees.

The containers I make up and handle are designed with two sets of handles. The containers are actually meant to be handled by two people (so 2 X 70 = 140), but that's not always feasible. So, on the small containers, which measure about errrr, about 25 inches by 25 inches by ?, it's easier just to handle the thing by myself. Don't tell anyone . We aren't supposed to lift them by ourselves when they weigh over 70 pounds...

It's actually quite a shock to new people who have seen us apparently doing nothing all day, and then discover that they are actually expected to work. We point out that the job description reads "Constant Heavy Lifting", but apparently no one ever reads down that far .

East Hill

Motorad

I was vertically challenged as a teenager and young adult, and even more at age 50. What tickles me is that where I work, I had to post the same specific sign on a lot of doors. To save time, I standardized the sign-heights by placing my shoe-tips against the doors, and placing the tip of my nose on the center of the signs while pressing the signs with their adhesive strips onto the doors.

That was eleven years ago. Now, I chuckle whenever I see any of those signs, because their height hasn't changed, while my height shrunk from 5'4" to 5'3". Reminded daily that I'm melting...

stapfam

My height has always been 5'6 1/4". Well it has been for the last 40 odd years. Had to be measured today and I am now 5'6 1/2". And that was in bare feet- Perhaps it is hair Growth- as although I am losing it a bit up top- I have been told by my Wife that I need a Haircut---for the last 3 months. Only problem is - It is still only just spring and the warm weather might go away for a few days.