I just found out from cnn.com (the mother of all internet news sites) that I have what must be freakishly small hands.
They have an article where they discuss a study about survival rates of extremely premature babies. In the article they say these babies are often 10 or 11 inches long, “not much longer than an average adult’s hand”. At the longest spot, my hand is only 6 inches long. I might even be counting part of the wrist in that measurement.
I hope that their statement is just exaggeration at work. Or maybe their meaning is that 6 inches isn’t that much less than 10 or 11 inches, and that’s true in a relative sort of way But why not compare it to something closer in length to babies instead of giving me a complex? Say they are about the length of a human forearm or something.