How short RL is short enough?
13 years ago
How short is short enough?
I often wonder, if I could be shorter, how much shorter? I look at people around me all the time, and think, "Wow, must be fun to be that short!" when I see guys that are around the five foot two mark, or even shorter. Trouble is, I don't really know how short I'd want to be.
So, if it were up to YOU to make me shorter in the real world, how short would you make me, and why? Do you like small people? Do you want a friend that is really short? Maybe somebody to cuddle that's really short. Whatevr the reason, how short RL would you make me, and why?
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But then a 1' proportional is going to be intresting.
Apart from reaching his places, 'course.
if we're talking ideal size, throwing realism out the window, Waist height
and myself!
Unrealistically? About 2 feet ;)
But you'd have to tell me how short that was.
Think we've got ourselves a vicious cycle here.
Everyone kept telling me I couldn't do certain things until I was bigger/older. So it wasn't that fun.
The next test was gradual shrinking and they needed someone nearby, so they could see the progress. A next door neighbor would be perfect though they both wondered if this would lead to more suspicion of them.
And this time it would be shrinking, not growing.
Eric Wilbur was a 20 year old college student who lived next door and would say hi to them. Jeff gave him a zap from the SAM, set a certain way. Eric was about five foot eleven and often wore a T shirt, shorts or jeans,
and sandals or sneakers. What would be interesting, Jeff told Matt, was that the clothes at the time of the
zapping would slowly shrink but of course his other clothes would not.
A day or so later they saw Eric who looked worried and...a bit shorter.
He was maybe three inches taller than Matt--whose height had been increased to five feet tall.
"I can't figure it out--my clothes seem bigger and I feel smaller," he told them. "Some of them still fit, but.."
Eric showed them how his T-shirt was bigger. His jeans kept sliding down, even with belt tightening,and the inseam was too big. His sneakers seemed several sizes too big.
"And you're..." Eric shook his head. "I noticed you grew a bit, Matty, but Jeff? Are you well over 6 feet tall now?"
The tip of Eric's head was now level with Jeff's nose.
"I think I'm still 5-ten."
A day later, Eric was down for four foot seven. Finally a day or so after that, Eric stood maybe 4 foot 1 and a half.
Eric went over to them. He was about level with the center of Matt's neck, and Jeff's armpits. Jeff was about the same size he (Eric) used to be. The college student was now wearing clothes meant for seven or eight year olds
(though the ones he was wearing a few days ago fit him fine).
His feet were down to maybe seven and a half inches long.
"I saw the doctor and he's mystified!," he told them in a prepubescent-sounding voice.
"Did you de-age? Are you seven again?"
"No, I'm still the same age--look, I got the beard and I look like someone who should be 20, but now---he says I'm maybe 4 feet one. And I used to weigh 160 but now it's about 57 pounds! You must weigh twice what I do!,"
Eric said to Matt, the nine year old who towered over him. "I don't know when it's going to stop!"
"Maybe it's stopped now," Jeff said, who knew quite well that it would. "Maybe you'll grow again, maybe soon."
"I hope it happens soon," said Eric, a look of shock on his face. "Do you know I have to stand on chairs to reach stuff, people give me looks--kids especially. The others over at the college are huge and my little legs and
feet have a tough time keeping up with them."
Jeff reached under Eric's arms and lifted him up a foot and a half or so. Eric wasn't pleased. "Everyone wants to do that to me now!," said Eric. "They think I'm an adorable little kid."