Full moon crazies

With tonight being a full moon, I asked all of my previous tall ladies if the effects of the full moon ever affected them.

The short answer is no. (And I was laughed at.) The long answer, is well, no, sort-of.

First of all, I should explain what all the hocus-pocus of the full moon theory is.

An article from 2005 on psychology today’s website (http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200502/full-moon-crazy) says:

“Everything from increases in violent crime and psychotic behavior to stock market fluctuations has been blamed on the effects of the fully illuminated moon. In 19th-century England, lawyers used the "guilty by reason of the full moon" defense to claim that their "lunatic" clients could not be held accountable for acting under the moon's influence.”

As well as:

“So why do 81 percent of mental health professionals, according to a University of New Orleans study, believe that lunar cycles affect human behavior? Part of the reason is historical: The illuminated moon played a more prominent role for our ancestors as both a calendar and a night-light. Before electric lighting became ubiquitous, a bright moon was more likely to disrupt sleep producing widespread grouchiness.”

Danielle Pittman, 5’4”, says she has trouble sleeping during the full moon, but has never experienced the effects.

Basically, it means that people go crazy when it’s a full moon. You’d think that since tall people are closer to the moon, they’d experience it, right? Apparently not.

In my inquiries, I found not a lot of people experience it, whether they’re tall, short or average. The most common thing is people’s unexplained behavior.

Shane Meagher, 6’0”, says when he was a manager at a movie theatre he would prepare himself for the crazies.

“I use to have to base what kind of manager I used to be on how close to the full moon we were,” he says. “I’d have to mentally prepare for the crazies that were about to complain to me.”

Jenna Pulice, 5’7”, experienced a strange encounter on a full moon once.

“Once there was a full moon and then I saw a black cat and accidentally broke a mirror in one day,” she says. “I remember being like fuck I broke a mirror seven years bad luck. Then the black cat was so creepy and only after I realized there was a full moon. I was just freaked out and I didn't want to go out after that.”

Long story short: look out for the crazies today, folks.