I need a hug (and a stepladder)
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Joined a gym and got measured yesterday as part of their fitness analysis. My whole adult life, I've thought I was 5'4. They measured me at 5'2. I'm crushed!
My measurement at home puts me at 5'2 & 11/16 (because 16ths matter now!) I'm rounding up to 5'3 when I update my stats
Nothing has actually changed except my own perception, I know.
My husband's been telling me for years I'm short, while I vehemently declared 5'4 is average height for a woman. Which it is. I'm just not.
I would love to be 5'2 ..... actually, just 5' would be awesome! I have just learned to embrace my height, or lack thereof, as being a special part of who I am
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Me at the supermarket
My daughter with her bestie years ago. They are only 1 week apart in age. She is the little one hee hee!
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An alternative to doing the shelf climb is to find something that can be used to knock the item down to catch. (probably not good for @pinuplove since she's clumsy and would likely give herself a concussion)4
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nutmegoreo wrote: »An alternative to doing the shelf climb is to find something that can be used to knock the item down to catch. (probably not good for @pinuplove since she's clumsy and would likely give herself a concussion)
And climbing up the shelf would not result in an accident given her predisposition?3 -
Lillymoo01 wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »An alternative to doing the shelf climb is to find something that can be used to knock the item down to catch. (probably not good for @pinuplove since she's clumsy and would likely give herself a concussion)
And climbing up the shelf would not result in an accident given her predisposition?
True. We should probably just bubble wrap her. :laugh:7 -
Is this an inappropriate time to mention the "Short People" song from the mid-seventies?3
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snowflake954 wrote: »Oh hon--just stand under your sprinkler in the mornings (when you turn it on the school kiddies). You will grow like a flower.
@snowflake954 I wish! I'd just look like this, but still short:
You are always beautiful--no matter how bedraggled you get! Hugs (I'm 5'10 by the way, but had short roommates in college. I was always asked to get things off of high shelves, so they didn't need a ladder). Being tall, for a woman, isn't that easy either. I was this height in middle school, and being tall and blonde, I felt like a lighthouse walking around. I was always trying to be invisible.6 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »An alternative to doing the shelf climb is to find something that can be used to knock the item down to catch. (probably not good for @pinuplove since she's clumsy and would likely give herself a concussion)
Even being tall, I can't reach stuff on the top shelf of the supermarket, and I can't do a "shelf climb" risking the whole thing would crash down. When THAT happens you feel HUGE. However Pinup, I have a hell of a time getting down on my knees and crawling around to get stuff out off low shelves and low, deep cupboards. Now that I'm 63 it's getting bad--I'm not a good contortionist.0 -
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snowflake954 wrote: »However Pinup, I have a hell of a time getting down on my knees and crawling around to get stuff out off low shelves and low, deep cupboards. Now that I'm 63 it's getting bad--I'm not a good contortionist.
I'm 6' and my wife is 5'4". I get the high stuff and she gets the low stuff. Means we do go shopping together a fair bit (for groceries, I'm not helping her with shoes)
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Tacklewasher wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »However Pinup, I have a hell of a time getting down on my knees and crawling around to get stuff out off low shelves and low, deep cupboards. Now that I'm 63 it's getting bad--I'm not a good contortionist.
I'm 6' and my wife is 5'4". I get the high stuff and she gets the low stuff. Means we do go shopping together a fair bit (for groceries, I'm not helping her with shoes)
This is great! BUT my husband and I are the same height.
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*hug* I'm afraid I can't help with the stepladder though!0
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Squidgeypaws007 wrote: »*hug* I'm afraid I can't help with the stepladder though!
For a kitchen ladder.
https://www.amazon.ca/Rubbermaid-RM-2W-Folding-200-Pound-Capacity/dp/B003EYVF76/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538125440&sr=8-1&keywords=kitchen+ladder
Not given her no hugs. She's mean to me
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Tacklewasher wrote: »Squidgeypaws007 wrote: »*hug* I'm afraid I can't help with the stepladder though!
For a kitchen ladder.
https://www.amazon.ca/Rubbermaid-RM-2W-Folding-200-Pound-Capacity/dp/B003EYVF76/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538125440&sr=8-1&keywords=kitchen+ladder
Not given her no hugs. She's mean to me
Ahahaha, I might get that - i'm a good 5'4" when I'm stretching, so it's handy to have around. My new crush is 6'2", so if things work out maybe I'll have someone to help me with the top shelves
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Tacklewasher wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »However Pinup, I have a hell of a time getting down on my knees and crawling around to get stuff out off low shelves and low, deep cupboards. Now that I'm 63 it's getting bad--I'm not a good contortionist.
I'm 6' and my wife is 5'4". I get the high stuff and she gets the low stuff. Means we do go shopping together a fair bit (for groceries, I'm not helping her with shoes)
Talking about shoe shopping, I was in a department store once. They had the smallest sizes on the top shelf and the largest down the bottom. Which dimwit thought that was a smart idea? I did point out the problem with their design plan and it was fixed by the time I went back.6 -
claireychn074 wrote: »Armpits. I hate standing at armpit height on tubes and busses (5 feet 3) 🙁
Not able to see over anyone in a crowd.
Top shelves of cupboards may as well not exist.
Always pushed to the front in group photos.
Cropped pants are just...pants.
Tall people make short jokes
It's a cruel, cruel world Bright side - we fit better in airplane seats!
I'm 5'4" (actually 5' 3.5" ish but I'm maintaining the slight exaggeration) and the airplane seat thing is completely worth everything imo. I can act pathetic and helpless at the grocery store so someone else gets an item off the top shelf for me, tall people have no alternative other than buying expensive airplane tickets. I've read news stories about passengers getting into major fights over airplane seat reclining and I have no idea what the problem is.3 -
Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »
Right. Now just imagine them with half again as much space between toe and bow.Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »
No, I'm sure of it. Attached neck-roll-pillow-thingies are the spawn of Evil.Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »
Me, too.MostlyWater wrote: »
My six-foot-tall kid younger sister loves to rest her elbow on my shoulder and announce that I'm her "little" sister.
My brother and father are 6'2" & 6'0", and my sisters & mom are 6'0", 5'11" & 5'10" (or were - parents have shrunk a bit). So at a "mere" 5'9" I've always been the short one in the family. (Yeah, yeah, I know you're all crying crocodile tears for me right now.)
About 10 years ago, they measured me at the doctor's office and I was 5'8" (d*mn you, middle age!). But then last year, they measured again and I was back to 5'9". Don't know if I actually shrunk and regrew, or if one of the measurement was wrong, but I'll take it.
People (especially male people) on busses and trains with their faces at bust level.claireychn074 wrote: »Armpits. I hate standing at armpit height on tubes and busses (5 feet 3) 🙁
Not able to see over anyone in a crowd.
Top shelves of cupboards may as well not exist.
Always pushed to the front in group photos.
Cropped pants are just...pants.
Tall people make short jokes
It's a cruel, cruel world Bright side - we fit better in airplane seats!
Have to turn into a pretzel to get at the bottom shelves.
Kitchen counters are standardized at the proper height for for people 3-5" shorter than me.
Chairs sometimes have attached neck-roll pillows that hit me right between the shoulder blades.
Airplane seats are hell.
Always in the back in group photos.
Most regular pants are cropped pants - cropped pants are knickerbockers.
Most long sleeves are 3/4 sleeves - 3/4 sleeves land uncomfortably in or just below the elbow.
Tall means big feet: I never wear white shoes, for fear someone will mistake them for boats and want to charter one for a day cruise.
There aren't all that many tall jokes, and most of them are beneath me.
Hey, start your own pity thread!
You make some very valid points. My feet are small and cute, which I like. That attached neck-roll-pillow-thingie, though - all it does is push my head forward and make my neck hurt! Do those things actually work for anyone?
(Saving my rant about the small little super-cute shoes so easily found for small little super-cute feet, and the cuteness so often gone terribly awry when that same shoe is blown up to "Titanic" size, for my own pity thread. )
So I probably should post a picture of my latest cute shoe purchase, huh?
Oh, the shoes! Adorable!
(As if they would even come in Size 11...)
But, I can get away with using the top of my refrigerator as a microwave stand, and the top of my microwave as a kitchen shelf...
We're twinsies, @Evelyn_Gorfram. 5'9", size 11.2 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »
Right. Now just imagine them with half again as much space between toe and bow.Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »
No, I'm sure of it. Attached neck-roll-pillow-thingies are the spawn of Evil.Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »
Me, too.MostlyWater wrote: »
My six-foot-tall kid younger sister loves to rest her elbow on my shoulder and announce that I'm her "little" sister. My brother and father are 6'2" & 6'0", and my sisters & mom are 6'0", 5'11" & 5'10" (or were - parents have shrunk a bit). So at a "mere" 5'9" I've always been the short one in the family. (Yeah, yeah, I know you're all crying crocodile tears for me right now.)
About 10 years ago, they measured me at the doctor's office and I was 5'8" (d*mn you, middle age!). But then last year, they measured again and I was back to 5'9". Don't know if I actually shrunk and regrew, or if one of the measurement was wrong, but I'll take it.
People (especially male people) on busses and trains with their faces at bust level.claireychn074 wrote: »Armpits. I hate standing at armpit height on tubes and busses (5 feet 3) 🙁
Not able to see over anyone in a crowd.
Top shelves of cupboards may as well not exist.
Always pushed to the front in group photos.
Cropped pants are just...pants.
Tall people make short jokes
It's a cruel, cruel world Bright side - we fit better in airplane seats!
Have to turn into a pretzel to get at the bottom shelves.
Kitchen counters are standardized at the proper height for for people 3-5" shorter than me.
Chairs sometimes have attached neck-roll pillows that hit me right between the shoulder blades.
Airplane seats are hell.
Always in the back in group photos.
Most regular pants are cropped pants - cropped pants are knickerbockers.
Most long sleeves are 3/4 sleeves - 3/4 sleeves land uncomfortably in or just below the elbow.
Tall means big feet: I never wear white shoes, for fear someone will mistake them for boats and want to charter one for a day cruise.
There aren't all that many tall jokes, and most of them are beneath me.
Hey, start your own pity thread!
You make some very valid points. My feet are small and cute, which I like. That attached neck-roll-pillow-thingie, though - all it does is push my head forward and make my neck hurt! Do those things actually work for anyone?
(Saving my rant about the small little super-cute shoes so easily found for small little super-cute feet, and the cuteness so often gone terribly awry when that same shoe is blown up to "Titanic" size, for my own pity thread. )
So I probably should post a picture of my latest cute shoe purchase, huh?
Oh, the shoes! Adorable!
(As if they would even come in Size 11...)
But, I can get away with using the top of my refrigerator as a microwave stand, and the top of my microwave as a kitchen shelf...
We're twinsies, @Evelyn_Gorfram. 5'9", size 11.
I feel for you two so much. I'm 5'8", size 10 and I get so frustrated trying to find cute shoes. You see them displayed in a size 6 and they are freaking adorable, even if you find them in a 10+ (unlikely) they most certainly wont look the same on my yachts. Meanwhile my wife is 5'3" with a size 6 and prefers more masculine styles which is just as impossible. No one wins this game. 2 -
5ft 2 1/4" here and most of the time I don't actually mind being petite, unless I stand beside my 6ft 3" son! yeah that's when I feel very tiny.
I have a 3 step wooden step ladder one of my sons made at woodwork when they were at school, I can't tell you how handy that has been to me over the years
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Tacklewasher wrote: »Squidgeypaws007 wrote: »*hug* I'm afraid I can't help with the stepladder though!
For a kitchen ladder.
https://www.amazon.ca/Rubbermaid-RM-2W-Folding-200-Pound-Capacity/dp/B003EYVF76/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538125440&sr=8-1&keywords=kitchen+ladder
Not given her no hugs. She's mean to me
That's ok. I hug you all the time anyway Unless I'm wooing you.Tacklewasher wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »However Pinup, I have a hell of a time getting down on my knees and crawling around to get stuff out off low shelves and low, deep cupboards. Now that I'm 63 it's getting bad--I'm not a good contortionist.
I'm 6' and my wife is 5'4". I get the high stuff and she gets the low stuff. Means we do go shopping together a fair bit (for groceries, I'm not helping her with shoes)
My husband and I grocery shop together. I think he purposefully picks things on the lower shelves for me to get, though :huh:5 -
LivingtheLeanDream wrote: »5ft 2 1/4" here and most of the time I don't actually mind being petite, unless I stand beside my 6ft 3" son! yeah that's when I feel very tiny.
I have a 3 step wooden step ladder one of my sons made at woodwork when they were at school, I can't tell you how handy that has been to me over the years
My 14yo dwarfs me. Not only is he taller (no big feat) but he's also very wide in the shoulders. He thinks it's great.
What a neat (and functional) keepsake!
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nutmegoreo wrote: »Lillymoo01 wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »An alternative to doing the shelf climb is to find something that can be used to knock the item down to catch. (probably not good for @pinuplove since she's clumsy and would likely give herself a concussion)
And climbing up the shelf would not result in an accident given her predisposition?
True. We should probably just bubble wrap her. :laugh:
No lie, I think I broke my foot falling down the 3 stairs to the garage last year
Nothing there, didn't trip, just...fell. It was swollen and all kinds of pretty colors for weeks. 5 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »Squidgeypaws007 wrote: »*hug* I'm afraid I can't help with the stepladder though!
For a kitchen ladder.
https://www.amazon.ca/Rubbermaid-RM-2W-Folding-200-Pound-Capacity/dp/B003EYVF76/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538125440&sr=8-1&keywords=kitchen+ladder
Not given her no hugs. She's mean to me
That's ok. I hug you all the time anyway Unless I'm wooing you.
Well, stop it. We're both married......
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I'm 5'8" and my wife is 5'8.5"
It's my mother's fault I'm not 6'. My dad comes from a family of giants (I have a 3rd cousin who's 6'11") even though he's the shorty of the family at 5'11". Mom, however, she's 4'10". Her mom...4'6".1 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »Squidgeypaws007 wrote: »*hug* I'm afraid I can't help with the stepladder though!
For a kitchen ladder.
https://www.amazon.ca/Rubbermaid-RM-2W-Folding-200-Pound-Capacity/dp/B003EYVF76/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538125440&sr=8-1&keywords=kitchen+ladder
Not given her no hugs. She's mean to me
That's ok. I hug you all the time anyway Unless I'm wooing you.
Well, stop it. We're both married......
Purely platonic side hugs. Duggar-style.6 -
Carlos_421 wrote: »I'm 5'8" and my wife is 5'8.5"
It's my mother's fault I'm not 6'. My dad comes from a family of giants (I have a 3rd cousin who's 6'11") even though he's the shorty of the family at 5'11". Mom, however, she's 4'10". Her mom...4'6".
It could have been worse! At least you wound up closer to his height than her's. 4 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »Lillymoo01 wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »An alternative to doing the shelf climb is to find something that can be used to knock the item down to catch. (probably not good for @pinuplove since she's clumsy and would likely give herself a concussion)
And climbing up the shelf would not result in an accident given her predisposition?
True. We should probably just bubble wrap her. :laugh:
No lie, I think I broke my foot falling down the 3 stairs to the garage last year Nothing there, didn't trip, just...fell. It was swollen and all kinds of pretty colors for weeks.
I regularly sprained my ankles as a child. As an adult, I've tripped over my own feet and invisible lines more often than I care to admit. I'm a little worried for my elder years.8 -
Carlos_421 wrote: »I'm 5'8" and my wife is 5'8.5"
It's my mother's fault I'm not 6'. My dad comes from a family of giants (I have a 3rd cousin who's 6'11") even though he's the shorty of the family at 5'11". Mom, however, she's 4'10". Her mom...4'6".
I'm 5'9", and hubby claims 5'7" like @pinuplove claims 5'3".3
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