Posted at 11:31 AM
Funny story about being very tall, by Mark
I used to live in Japan, which caused a long list of funny things to occur, since the average height of men is about 5'6" and women is a little smaller. I'm 6'8", so I really stood out in a crowd. A few things were really funny, but one sticks in my mind.

I once had to meet a few friends at a train station in Tokyo. The station is called Shinjuku and is the busiest train station IN THE WORLD. There were literally tens of thousands of people milling around inside this huge station. About three friends and I had to meet three other people on a certain platform. We didn't know it, and we couldn't see because the platform made a slight curve, but we were waiting on one end of the platform, and our friends were on the other (about 75 yards away). After about 30 minutes of waiting, my friend Chuck went out the the man watching the ticket gate. He asked the man in Japanese, "Did the tallest man you've ever seen go though here today?" He nodded and pointed over to the other stairway. Chuck went up, and there I was. We got a good laugh about that.

Thanks, Mark!