Precision Engineering

My wife bought a growth chart to hang on the wall, so we could track Troy’s height. I guess she got tired of me making marks directly on the wall. I finally got around to hanging it up today, which proved more difficult than it sounds.

The chart doesn’t start measuring until six inches, which wouldn’t be so bad, except the chart also stops three and a quarter inches above the floor. The top of the measurement goes to six feet, but the chart goes on another four and a quarter inches above that. Add in the extra height for the bracket, and the offset from the monkey hook, and you have a disaster of numbers to calculate.

When all was said and done, the tick marks on the chart matched up to the exact measurements of the tape measure.  I mean spot-on, as in not even a millimeter off.  I was so proud of my precision engineering that I had to brag about it.  I had hung this thing up perfectly on the first...er, second...um, third try.