>>>>>I am sick of this. I am a small person (5'7") and have difficultly finding freakin' size 8 shoes. What gives? 10 years ago there was footwear-a-plenty.
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>I don't have the shoe problem - everyone carries an 11. However, I've noticed my wife has been shrinking my pants lately. She does this every 5 years or so!

It's these newfangled dryers, IMHO. You put clothes in, and they shrink just a little each time. Or maybe it's these "mega ultimate" fabric softeners. I dunno. But it shrinks the length of my kid's jeans, but only the width of *my* jeans! How does it know the difference? < G >

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