TIL: the “Arm-over-head ear test” was a expedite test to determine whether a child of undetermined age was grown enough to attend school; the child was asked to pass one arm behind their head and grab or touch the lobe of the ear of the opposite side (touch right ear lobe with left hand and left ear lobe with right hand), success meant that their arms and torso were developed enough to have the mental age appropiate to stand still and attend school.
This kind of test was phased out as birth certificates became universally available and hard age cutoffs were set, but I just learned of this from a book written in 1971…
Why the “ouch”? I meant I got the impression that you were jovial and bubbly like him as an old person, inferring from your previous replies in LAGL so far.
Yesterday we sold at the local craft show. We did fairly well for a first time doing this. These are the things that my wife crocheted and a lot of it got sold. It was a good day all around.
