A TV Set Paradox

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My kei car fools everybody about the size of its cargo compartment.
Once the three of us, my wife, son and I, picked up a TV set from friends, quite a fair-sized 21'' device in a box. The son inspected the box and remarked: “It must be put on the roof bars.”
He was somewhere else when I was loading the TV set - not onto the bars but into the luggage section. Time to leave, he comes in and sees that there's nothing on the roof.
“Uh-oh, we forgot the thing!”
“Dad'd put it in the luggage compartment,” mom explains.
“Nuh-uh, it's big, it won't never fit inside.”
“Yes it's big but the car's bigger so it did.”
He puts up with the fact, gets into the car, clicks the belt buckle and draws the line below: “The TV set is not on the roof, it's inside the car. The car’s GROWN BIGGER.”

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