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Older muggers...Did you inherit the 'shrinking' gene? I have shrunk 3" in 15 years. If I live to be 90, I will be the size of a GI Joe doll.

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Posted - January 11, 2018

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  • 6988
    With the Kung Fu grip? This post was edited by B.H.Wilson at January 12, 2018 2:47 AM MST
      January 11, 2018 12:42 PM MST
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  • 7280
    Over the years (40+) I have only work two brands of shoes---Rocky and Allen Edmonds.   Rocky for every day wear and Allen Edmonds for dress.

    About 10 years ago, I was re-measured at my doctor's office and I had gained an inch.  (Same shoes I always wear to him.)

    Unless the scale (you know the tall one that measures your height optionally) had been tampered with, there was no explanation---although at this precise moment, perhaps some chiropractic manipulations had affected my inter disk space.

    Normally we do "grow" shorter with age.
      January 11, 2018 3:02 PM MST
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  • 22891
    yes, im only 4ft5 so you could say that
      January 11, 2018 3:50 PM MST
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  • 2327
    I'm a young man, so, I have to wait a little while before the shrinkage happens. But short as I am at only 5'5", I hope I don't lose too much. My maternal grandfather was 5'0" as an older man, but I guess he was about 5'2" - 5'3" range when he was younger. Maybe I'll end up like that. I look just like him. 
      January 11, 2018 5:00 PM MST
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  • 11015
    Usually, whatever we lose in height, we gain in circumference. So, it's all good.
      January 11, 2018 6:24 PM MST
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  • 44622
    Quite true.
      January 12, 2018 8:08 AM MST
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  • 5835
    Yes, that's very annoying. A few years ago I bought new pants because my waist had increased by four inches. I was trying to pretend it was only two inches, but I finally gave up and bought new pants. I was shocked to find that I no longer wore a 30" inseam. Now I go looking for new pants and I am even shorter and fatter than that.
      January 12, 2018 6:55 PM MST
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  • 5835
    Two girls tried to pick me up at J.C. Penney. I was walking across the parking lot and one of them said to the other "Get him!"
      January 12, 2018 6:56 PM MST
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