Your ears and nose continue to grow as we age.  Hum.  I was on an airplane yesterday and could not help but notice the abundance of large ears.  I looked to the side of me, in front and in back.  I studied both women and men.

Here's what I found.  Every man over the age of lets say sixty, had these really large ears.  Of all of the woman I looked at, their ears appeared to be of normal size in accordance with their head size.

As we age, we can lose our ability to hear and smell as well as we did in our youth.  Could that be the reason why those two features continue to grow?  I have never heard a man express that because his ears are twice the size they use to be, that he can hear better.

I'm not even sure if they notice the size difference.

I am on a business trip with my sweetheart and over breakfast, I discussed this oddity with him.  He needs to attend a conference today which will be filled with older men.  He told me that for the rest of the day, he will be looking at everyones ears instead of concentrating on the real reason why he is here. I couldn't help but laugh that I spread to him my curse of analyzing things to much and paying attention to those things that may go unnoticed by most people.

As I was relaying my disturbed thinking to him, I had to look at his ears and wonder what size they will ultimately grow too.  Funny.  Dumbo is not fictional after all.