Ow.

[tahnan]

Why do my arms hurt?

Oh, right. Because I went down to the bank and deposited 33 pounds yesterday.

Note to British readers: not pounds sterling; 33 pounds of coins, or as it's called in the UK, "15 kilos". Worth about $200, and weighing about as much as a small child, or as it's called in the UK, "a wee bairn".

Comments

[cazique.livejournal.com]

wow. my small child doesn't weigh that much.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Well, certainly, it will depend on the child. More accurate would be "a moderately small child". Even more accurate would be that 33 pounds of coins weighs as much as "a 33-pound child", but you start to lose some of the force of the analogy at that point.

[cazique.livejournal.com]

reminds me of the entry in the widely-circulated Style Invitational for analogies: "He was as tall as a six-foot three-inch tree"

[cnoocy]

Wow, two cats of loose change. Or, as they say in cities without so much Maine Coon in the feline gene pool, three cats of loose change.

[mamasee.livejournal.com]

My 2.5 year old weighs almost 40 pounds. (He's also simply big for his age. People tend to think he's 3.5 going on 4 -- which is too bad, because they expect his behavior to match their expectation, and it doesn't.)

The good thing is -- and you might take comfort from it -- is that your arms don't hurt as much, because you start carrying the kid when they're somewhere between 5 and 11 lbs. So it's gradual. But the arms still hurt occasionally.