Bizarre

You wanna hear something bizarre? Ok, so all day long at work I walk up and down the hallway outside my office. Every once in a while, I'll spread my arms to try to touch both the walls at the same time, but I can never do it. Isn't there some sort of factoid out there that says that the wingspan of your outstretched arms is the same as your height? So I always figured that the width of the hallway was just a tinier bit more than 5'6", which is my height. In fact I've often resisted the urge to lie down across the hallway to test that out. Anyhow, today I was walking down the hall and I spread out my arms and to my absolute amazement, I could touch both walls simultaneously! I've been walking up and down the hall for five years now and I've never touched. Ever.

This leads me to believe one of three scenarios:

Scenario #1) At age 29, I'm having a second growth spurt. This would require that the factoid about your wingspan and your height being equal is true. I don't know if it's wise to believe every factoid you hear. Blowing in someone's face while they make cross-eyes doesn't make them cross-eyed forever. And I haven't tested out the one where if you don't close your eyes when you sneeze, your eyeballs will fall out.

Scenario #2) My arms are growing longer independently from the rest of my body. This somehow seems more plausible than the growth spurt theory, yet it just seems ridiculous that my arms would decide to grow on their own accord. I mean, what's their motivation?
Wouldn't that just make me more proportionately ape-like? Why would my body take such a backward evolutionary step like that?

Scenario #3) My arms are more flexible than they used to be. Ok, this is probably the reason. We've been doing a lot of arm movement stuff for taiko and extention and reach and "big arms" are what we generally strive for. I just had no idea that stretching out your arms made them longer, or rather, made them reach their full potential.

So, following the logic of Scenario #3, wouldn't stretching and extending your legs make them longer, and hence, make you taller? Why don't you work on that theory while I try to sneeze with my eyes open.