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Skriven 2006-07-25 17:39:45 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
Ärende: Re: CHICKEN 472 60723
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*** Quoting Glen Jamieson from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 CS> easy to get out in town.  (The sizes probably dont make sense to a man,
 CS> but 'A' is impossible to even with help, hide a pencil under, "B" can
 CS> do it with a little help, "C' needs no help to make it stick, and "D"
 CS> have to have help finding there's one under there <g>).

GJ> Having had a well-rounded education, I am familiar with those
GJ> classifications.  :)

Hehehe Figured you would be <g>.  Just had to translate them to what you'd be
familiar with.


 CS> Probably!  She's apt to be my chest size but apt to be taller too. 
 CS> She's 4'10" now and 12 1/2 with a growth spirt again.  3 inches more
 CS> and she's as tall as me.  She's not going to be as tall as her cousins
 CS> I think, but should steady out at around 5'6" or a bit more.  Thats my
 CS> guess so far at least.  She was very tall for her age for a long time
 CS> but it slowed down. 

GJ> It is the trend, for kids to outgrow their parents.  I read somewhere
GJ> that your eventual height will be twice your height at the age of 2.

Not sure on that one, maybe 2.5 years old double?  But that doesnt work for
boys as they are shorter at that age (and stay so until about 7th grade or
13/14 years of age).  Either way, unless Charlotte just 'stops' like I did,
she's going to be average height at least.  She growth pattern up to 4th grade
showed signs of being a very tall kid, but so did mine.  Her cousins are all
5'8" and up (girls both).  Both were same height or only an inch or so more at
the same age as Charlotte is now.  They are both grown up now so we can match
patterns.  Time will tell though.

GJ> If you take 40 people out of cars and put them in buses it makes a lot
GJ> more space on the roads.  (G)

This is very true!  Norfolk has a special lane for HOV (High Occupancy Vehicle)
which requires 3 or more to use.  In a few spots, it has a 'SHOV' (local name
which we joking call it, cant remember real one, 'Super HOV') and that
requires a bus (regardless of how many riding at the moment) or a Van with 8
passengers or more (I think it's 8).  That SHOV is when there are 2 HOV lanes
(one becomes SHOV at peak hours).

 CS> BTW, park and ride has a new meaning in Japan.  Huge bicyle parking at
 CS> the train stations <g>.  No car parking.

GJ> I have seen those amazing multi-storey Japanese bike parks, and
GJ> admired the system which allows individual bikes to retrieved from the
GJ> thousands stored in the racks.   There are also interesting park and
GJ> ride multi-layer racks for cars in open-air parks around Narita
GJ> township, for motorists who ride off in planes.

The car type is very common.  Even Sasebo has them.  Some apartment buildings
even have them.  I havent seen them for bicyles (not even at Narita but then I
havent been there so many times to have blundered into them I guess).  I do
see big bicyle parking though even out here.  Just on the train ride back home
from the airport, we passed 3 of them.  Tosu, Arita, and one other.  Oh, and
Sasebo has one but you dont see it from the train.  One of them is really big
and was packed pretty tightly with what looked like over 200 of them (there
were 10 rows of at least 20).

                                       xxcarol

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