Kids and size.

[Buried Alien]

When you're a child, everything must seem bigger than it really is.

I got a letter from the Sharps the other day (actually, a postcard that had to be included in an envelope because Kanako had a drawing for me too). Kanako had drawn (in crayon) a street in Tokyo. What was amusing was that the skyscrapers, the trees, and the people were all about the same size (this isn't the first time; she's drawn similar pictures before). :)

Two days ago, I got a phone call from the Sharps. Kanako told me that her dad had taken her fishing in Yokohama. I asked if they had caught any fish, and she said that they did...a big one. I asked her how big the fish was; her reply: "100 feet!"

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Apparently, Kanako and her daddy fished Godzilla out of Yokohama Harbor. :)


Buried Alien (The Most Evil Post Alive!)

[Crimson]

Yeah, when I was a kid everything seemed bigger.

*Looks down*

Sigh... how I (and any partner I have) miss that. :p

[west3man]

Apparently, Kanako and her daddy fished Godzilla out of Yokohama Harbor. :)


Buried Alien (The Most Evil Post Alive!)
Somehow, that seems oddly appropriate.

Interesting topic, btw. It's neat, seeing the world through the eyes of a child, again.

[Paradox]

Evil Buried Alien notes the perspective shift:

When you're a child, everything must seem bigger than it really is.

Aye. I remember having to go back to my old elementary school when I was about 25 because it was the polling place for voting. It seemed tiny! It got worse when I had to go to the bathroom. Bizarre feeling, that.

I got a letter from the Sharps the other day (actually, a postcard that had to be included in an envelope because Kanako had a drawing for me too). Kanako had drawn (in crayon) a street in Tokyo. What was amusing was that the skyscrapers, the trees, and the people were all about the same size (this isn't the first time; she's drawn similar pictures before). :)

Two days ago, I got a phone call from the Sharps. Kanako told me that her dad had taken her fishing in Yokohama. I asked if they had caught any fish, and she said that they did...a big one. I asked her how big the fish was; her reply: "100 feet!"

...

Apparently, Kanako and her daddy fished Godzilla out of Yokohama Harbor. :)

Sigh...one of these days we're going to have to get her together with Typo Tot and have a "Cute-off". :)

[Core]

Aye. I remember having to go back to my old elementary school when I was about 25 because it was the polling place for voting. It seemed tiny! It got worse when I had to go to the bathroom. Bizarre feeling, that.

I had a similar experience returning to one of my elementary schools 20 years later. The bathroom there had one of those peeing-trough style communal urinals that seemed HUGE as a small tike.

Well, while I was TCB, a little old man came in and also began to use the trough. I thought nothing of it until I was washing my hands and relized that it was my old principal, who was also HUGE in my childhood rememberance. I felt like I'd gone through the looking glass.