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Pug wrote:

RPB wrote:Almost everyone is an inch taller in the morning than at night

Whereas that is true, as I've gotten older I've actually "compressed" an inch. So if the same error was made on my CHL there would now be a 2" difference.

I only wish that they had made an error in my weight -- like about 80lbs worth!

When I was young and healthy and skinny (yes, it's true, I once was all of that AND a bag of chips), I stood 5' 10-1/2". By the time I required back surgery, I stood right at 5' 10". On the day I got home from the hospital, I stood 5' 11". The cadaver bone they used to fille the empty disc space gave me back an inch of height. That was in 2004. Today, I stand 5' 10" if I stick my chest out and suck my gut in. The future does not bode well for me. When my mother was at her tallest, she stood 5' even. Today, at 86 years old, she is a towering 4' 10"—a loss of about 3.4% in height. My dad went from 5' 9" at his tallest to 5' 8" at the time of his premature death at age 67—a loss of about 1.5% in height in 20 fewer years. I'm guesstimating that I'll be somewhere between 5' 7-1/2" and 5' 9" by the time of my own death. I intend to keep lying about my height and weight as long as I can pull it off. But I had to give up calling my hair anything but white a long time ago.

The Annoyed Man wrote:But I had to give up calling my hair anything but white a long time ago.

IIRC, you can call it full ...

The Annoyed Man wrote:I'm guesstimating that I'll be somewhere between 5' 7-1/2" and 5' 9" by the time of my own death.

Maybe they can tack on an inch or two if they replace your hip joints.

Seriously, everyone loses height in the spinal cartilage. It gets worse with osteoporosis or Parkinson's disease. I've seen people with both, which is a really scary fate.

- Jim

terryg wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:But I had to give up calling my hair anything but white a long time ago.

IIRC, you can call it full ...

My dad's hair turned grey, mine turned loose
My TDL and CHL look so different from each other, neither looks like I look now, I'm not going to go get new photos after each haircut/beard trimming/shave though.

seamusTX wrote:Actually everyone else in the world. We're the only ones left using pounds.

The British would call it 19 stone.

- Jim

...a whole lotta guys couldn't weigh in at all in England...

RPB wrote: My dad's hair turned grey, mine turned loose.

seamusTX wrote:The U.S. has been officially metric 1866. It just never caught on.

I had been thinking that Congress adopted the metric system in the 1790s. Several people pushed for it, but Congress moves at its own rate.

At least we pretty much got away from drams, rods, chains, fathoms, and the like, except for some specialties.

- Jim

I'm in the medical field and almost everything is metric.

Don't forget grains—the unit of measure for gunpowder, bullet weight, and (still) certain medications.

seamusTX wrote:Welcome to the forum.

I've never heard of a LEO worrying about the height on a CHL or driver license unless some 12 year old was trying to drive on a "borrowed" license.

Also with the photos being used for 10 years now, men have gone bald and grown beards since their last photo.

As for weight, don't get me started ...

- Jim

Haha, Thanks for the welcome and good points, Jim

OP - if a LEO asks, tell him the difference is that your CCW causes you to slouch a little.