So I recently had a friend visit me in my tiny mountain village (something that only happens once in a blue moon, since I live far as heck from anywhere else, and because there is not much to do once you do make it to my town), and in order for you to understand the impact this visit had I my town I will lay it out first as analogy. Imagine you live in Boston. One day Big Baby Davis (6’9”, 289 lb) gets signed by the Celtics and moves into your neighborhood. When he shows up, he is the biggest human being that you have ever been in close contact with, he is taller and heavier than you by a ridiculous amount. Now imagine that he stays living in your neighborhood for a few years, attending block parties, playing basketball with the kids and such. No matter how outlandish he seemed at first, you get used to him. You even get used to how big he is and that just becomes your new measurement for a big person. Then one day Shaq (7’1”, 325 lb) signs with the Celtics, and he also decides to move into your neighborhood, and you suddenly have a new definition of what a big person is. Seeing him next to Davis seriously blows your mind. All you can do is stare and point and giggle uncontrollably, unable to fathom how a person that large exists.
Well this is what happened when I (5’11”, 185 lb) brought my big Scottish friend Tom (6’6”, 215 lb) to come visit my tiny mountain town (average size: 5’5”, 150 lb). Add to this the fact that he wears size 15 shoes, and people straight up lost it. They were seriously unable to grasp that people bigger than me existed, as I am literally the tallest guy in town. Even when my brother and cousin visited who both have a few inches of height on me it wasn’t as bad (Probably because they are both string beans and when we are in a group it is not immediately evident that they are a little taller than me). I’m pretty sure that for generations people will be telling their kids stories of the time that giant came to town… now if I could only get the real Shaq to come down here, I could really mess with people’s heads.
