[Balin] I throw myself up in the air ...

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Author Message Balin (Balin) New member Username: Balin Post Number: 11601 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 5:23 pm:        For most of the year, on six days each week I jump into the air at least once. Why? Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin) New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 3017 Registered: 9-2010 Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 5:35 pm:        I = you, Balin? Most of the year...spring? summer? fall? winter? any particular days excluded? holidays? same six days each week? Sunday? Monday? Tuesday? Wednesday? Thursday? Friday? Saturday? Balin (Balin) New member Username: Balin Post Number: 11604 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 5:39 pm:        I = you, Balin? Yep Most of the year...spring? Yes summer? Not here fall? Yes winter? Most of it any particular days excluded? Yes holidays? Yes, and others same six days each week? Sunday? Monday? Tuesday? Wednesday? Thursday? Friday? Saturday? Not Sunday Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin) New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 3019 Registered: 9-2010 Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 5:40 pm:        school relevant? breaks from school? (which would cover "holidays and others", I suppose...and I doubt you'd have classes on Sunday...but Saturday classes aren't impossible...) Balin (Balin) New member Username: Balin Post Number: 11606 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 5:42 pm:        school relevant? Yes (tiny -ish) breaks from school? Yes (which would cover "holidays and others", I suppose... Exactly! and I doubt you'd have classes on Sunday...but Saturday classes aren't impossible...) Elon doesn't have Saturday classes Doriana (Doriana) New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 520 Registered: 12-2010 Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 6:29 pm:        Sports relevant? Basketball? Being not tall enough to reach somethinng relevant? Lynne (Lynne) New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 4917 Registered: 12-2000 Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 7:02 pm:        Are you jumping down steps? Jumping up from the ground in order to just fall back down again? Kalira (Kalira) New member Username: Kalira Post Number: 583 Registered: 2-2009 Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 8:05 pm:        Does this involve the route you take to get to/from classes? dining hall? some other place on campus? or off? or numerous places? Balin (Balin) New member Username: Balin Post Number: 11609 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 9:25 pm:        Sports relevant? No Basketball? No Being not tall enough to reach somethinng relevant? Yes! Are you jumping down steps? No Jumping up from the ground in order to just fall back down again? Yope - I do intend to just fall back down, but I have a purpose in doing so. Does this involve the route you take to get to/from classes? No dining hall? No some other place on campus? Yes or off? No or numerous places? No, just one place. I suspect this will go quickly. Lynne (Lynne) New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 4918 Registered: 12-2000 Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 9:38 pm:        Is your mail on the top level? Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin) New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 3025 Registered: 9-2010 Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 9:40 pm:        Is it that you jump up to try and hit the top of an archway? (I have noticed this behavior in many guys. Why they do it, I can't say, but it irritated me...and them...by the time I was in sixth grade and one of my classmates, who was over 6 feet (yes, we were just eleven) tall by then, could just reach up and slap the archway without even leaving the ground.) Balin (Balin) New member Username: Balin Post Number: 11615 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 9:46 pm:        Is it that you jump up to try and hit the top of an archway? Good guess, but no. I did that all the time in elementary/middle/high school, but there's no good archways here. (I have noticed this behavior in many guys. Why they do it, I can't say, but it irritated me...and them...by the time I was in sixth grade and one of my classmates, who was over 6 feet (yes, we were just eleven) tall by then, could just reach up and slap the archway without even leaving the ground.) Is your mail on the top level? Quickly indeed... **********SPOILER********** As you all know, I'm short. This has proven to be a disadvantage to me when getting my mail, as my campus mailbox is on the top level. It's low enough that I can reach it with relative ease, but high enough that I can't see everything inside it. So whenever I get my mail, I have to jump to make sure I've gotten everything from the box. Obviously, mail does not come on Sundays, so I don't have to jump then. Nice quick solve, Lynne et al. Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin) New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 3029 Registered: 9-2010 Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 9:56 pm:        Poor Balin! *hugs* Lynne (Lynne) New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 4919 Registered: 12-2000 Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 10:09 pm:        Out of sheer curiosity, how tall are you? Balin (Balin) New member Username: Balin Post Number: 11620 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 11:07 pm:        5'3" or 5'4" (160-163 cm, if I converted it right). AKA "not tall." Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin) New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 3032 Registered: 9-2010 Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 11:08 pm:        iz tallur dan kaylee kitteh! (iz 5 feet, 1/4 inch, dat is awl) Lynne (Lynne) New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 4920 Registered: 12-2000 Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 11:29 pm:        Same height as my daughter's fiance. She's 5'0" Balin (Balin) New member Username: Balin Post Number: 11627 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - 3:18 am:        Hang on, Lynne...is your daughter 5'0", or is her fiance 5'0"? (Masculine spelling of fiance + feminine pronoun = boggled Balin) Lynne (Lynne) New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 4923 Registered: 12-2000 Posted on Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - 8:59 am:        (You're the) same height as my daughter's fiance. My daughter is 5'0" Potato (Potato) New member Username: Potato Post Number: 322 Registered: 7-2010 Posted on Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - 3:38 pm:        So am I. :-( Kalira (Kalira) New member Username: Kalira Post Number: 584 Registered: 2-2009 Posted on Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - 4:13 pm:        I feel positively tall at the supposedly average (USican female) height of 5'6" -- don't quite know what to make of that. Randomly, I now wonder if the avg heights for British peoples are the same as for USicans. Doriana (Doriana) New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 529 Registered: 12-2010 Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2011 - 6:35 pm:        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height#Average_height_around_the_world According to this interesting wikipedia list, I'm a bit taller than the average German woman. Since most of my friends are taller than I am, I wonder where all the small women are?! And the Germans seem to be among the tallest, I didn't know that either.