Measurements and distance…
I’m not sure what turned my brain in THIS direction, but you’re here with me now, so…consider this, if you will.
Here’s my take on how the same distance becomes “close” or “not even close” and “long” or “not very long”. Take one foot, twelve inches. If you try to hit a target and miss it by twelve inches, you weren’t even close.
However, if you almost get run over by a passing car and it just misses you by a foot, “whew!”, THAT was CLOSE. If you fall off the side of a hill but only drop a couple feet, that’s a real short drop. But if you have a NOSE that’s a foot long, THAT is a really, long nose.
If you’re in a car and only seven miles from home, that’s a short distance and you’re close to home. But if you’re airborne in a plane, flying at 35,000 feet, that’s less than seven miles, but a LONG, LONG, WAY UP and a long way down, especially if the plane develops engine problems.
Okay, okay….just one more. If the hair on your head is a foot long, that may or may not be categorized as being extremely long. However, if the same length of hair is growing in your armpits (nasty!!), nostrils (that’s sick!), or ears? (that’s sick and Guiness Book of World Records stuff)….. That’s IT!! I’m stopping right here.