Why do object and places seem to get smaller.
Example:- Mars Bar
The Ocean
The Fair Ground
Public Buildings
2007-10-31 13:19:19 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
You are right.
I remember telling my husband about my old school classrooms being huge and wood panelled.
My daughter went to the same school and at parents night I was
really disappointed to see them through adults eyes.
They were tiny and dingy, not the way I saw them as a pupil
2007-10-31 13:27:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
Yes the Mars Bar has shrunk and costs more. So have Kleenex tissues - the boxes are SHORTER IN LENGTH! I bet they thought we would never notice!!! Same number of tissue etc - just smaller! All the other places listed (except the ocean) seem to have shrunk too, but of course I am remembering those places with a child's eye! And my eyes were much smaller way back then. The Ocean (any one of them) however, is still so vast it boggles the mind! I really hope that they never shrink in size - what a devastating thing that would be for Earth! Boy we are really getting serious now!
2007-11-01 09:37:47 · answer #2 · answered by CJ 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
can totaly understand why Mars bars The Fair Ground and Public Buildings seem smaller but the Ocean ?? no I will always feel small against it
2007-11-01 09:08:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Agree on all except the ocean...it just gets larger to me...But things during our youth seemed SO grand and large; yet years later we return and find just a small broken down fairground; buildings that were not nearly as imposing as we remembered etc. Now Mars Bar and others - they ARE smaller!...
2007-11-01 09:06:55 · answer #4 · answered by sage seeker 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mars bars and all food lately has been getting smaller. They think we won't notice if they leave the price the same. The other things were just so big to a wide eyed kid, but then we got bigger too. It's an eye opener to go back somewhere and see how everything has 'shrunk'.
2007-10-31 21:35:40 · answer #5 · answered by luvspbr2 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
there was me thinking Mars Bar was a great night out place that I had never heard of.
All the chocolate bars have shrunk in size it saved putting the price up too much
children have little legs which is why fairgrounds seen large
2007-11-01 03:41:17 · answer #6 · answered by Diamond 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A great friend told me today that getting old is like the toilet roll running out, the less there is the faster it goes, and I remember when Mars bars were the size of a small loaf of bread, now they are like a wafer.
2007-11-01 17:17:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ocean still seems big to me. And, I just had to go to a state office in the state capital, and the building was huge.Nothing has really changed at my end other than I don't like crowds like I used to.
2007-11-01 14:14:00 · answer #8 · answered by Harley Lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not so sure about that - the trip to the shops keeps getting further away and that hill gets bigger every time I go up it.
I thought the Mars bar was smaller anyway.
2007-11-01 12:34:21 · answer #9 · answered by Florence-Anna 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is the same as it seems faster driving home and takes forever to get where you are going.
first time to a fair ground seems large because you are not familiar with the surroundings.
after several visits it appears smaller because you know where every thing is.
like the big mac the mars bars has been made smaller to save on cost.
2007-10-31 20:31:57 · answer #10 · answered by doug_servicetek 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
OK, this is not PC and I will incur the wrath of all the greenies, but I miss big cars. I hate all these little jelly bean cars, my Dad had a big ole Eldorado that took up half a block to park, but Jeeze , what a smooth ride!
My bud's mom drove a huge Lincoln and she would drive us to movies, etc. Wow, we felt like rock stars.
And no, I drive a small car that gets good fuel mileage.
2007-11-01 10:16:25 · answer #11 · answered by 2jaxx 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋