Ira Stoll notices a curious cautionary sign at a Washington, D.C. playground: “Designed for Children Ages 2 to 5 Years (18 months – 5 years for Canada).”
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Must be metric versus standard years.
Maybe it’s dog years. Wait… “Is one of us supposed to be a dog in this scenario?”
I think this is because children in Canada mature faster than American kids do but American kids catch up by 5;-)
That is a good title!
Some years back, Michael Feldman had a segment on instructions for some product that had to be gargled, if memory serves, and they were different for Canada and the US. So I guess their throats are a different size, too. Yet they look just like us!
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