Interesting phenomenon...

[Finn]

Ok, here's my take...
In the Army we were always measured/weighed in the morning. The explanation was that while sleeping & lying flat, the body extended. As the day progressed gravity worked its marvel and pulled the body downward. What was slim became... not.
I've always held that I'm shorter at bedtime than at waking.
Anyway, those were my pennies...

[Tommie]

Ok, here's my take...
In the Army we were always measured/weighed in the morning. The explanation was that while sleeping & lying flat, the body extended. As the day progressed gravity worked its marvel and pulled the body downward. What was slim became... not.
I've always held that I'm shorter at bedtime than at waking.
Anyway, those were my pennies...

Now this makes sense.Gravity!.Yeah! Thats it!.
Now if I can convince my wife thats whats causing my belts to keep shrinking.

[Pleater]

I do the hanging up and taking down of laundry in the mornings - because I put the things on hangers and stand on tiptoe to get them up onto the rods in the conservatory roof.

If I need anything down from the rods in the evening I have to stand on a brick to reach it - I have shrunk during the day.

Its just the effect of gravity on the soft parts - the price we pay for getting up on our hind legs and standing perpendicular to the world.

It is no wonder we are such agressive little primates - all the others have two heights - normal and threateningly upright hear me roar - we only have the one. It is as though we are destined from the age of eighteen months to be totally at odds with the rest of the world.