Long coats and Short friends

Long coats and short friends are very important if you want to look tall. My boss (resident of 221b Baker Street) has both of these. Dear John doesn't like to talk about his height. Of course, John could never look tall. Not only because he doesn't have a long coat but you couldn't find many people smaller than him. (No offence John!)

I seem to keep growing; so I always grow out of my long coats as they turn into short coats. It has turned into a height race between me and my Friends! One minute I'm taller than them then next minute they're taller than me! This is very difficult when you are trying to grow up, as you don't know who to look up to?
 
Apparently the avarage height of a 13 year old is 5 feet 2 inches - that's if you can believe 'kweller23' on Yahoo Answers, although 'hotandspicy1991' doesn't agree with him at all.


The tallest man in medical history for whom there is irrefutable evidence is Robert Pershing Wadlow (USA) (born 6:30 a.m. at Alton, Illinois, USA on 22 February 1918), who when last measured on 27 June 1940, was found to be 2.72 m (8 ft 11.1 in) tall.
 

 Chandra Bahadur Dangi measures 54.6cm (21.5 in), making him the same size of six stacked cans of baked beans.

 Unfortunately there are no statistics for the longest coat or the shortest friends - if you find any please let me know.