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I need a hug (and a stepladder)
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I thought that one looked too perky to be you. This one looks about right:Spoiler
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Aww, I love being short. I'm 5'3" and my husband is just over 6'1" and it's a source of great amusement between us. When he gets in the car after I've driven it, he has to adjust the seat and we laugh as the poor electric motor goes "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, really?, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...." for what seems like forever trying to get the seat back and down enough.
But I love being able to hug him with my face right at his chest.
Embrace the short!5 -
Aww, I love being short. I'm 5'3" and my husband is just over 6'1" and it's a source of great amusement between us. When he gets in the car after I've driven it, he has to adjust the seat and we laugh as the poor electric motor goes "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, really?, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...." for what seems like forever trying to get the seat back and down enough.
But I love being able to hug him with my face right at his chest.
Embrace the short!
This is one of the things I always enjoyed when dating a taller guy. I'm 5'2" myself, and I really don't mind at all.6 -
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I'm between 5'3" and 5'4", depending on who's measuring. Being "short" doesn't bother me anymore. What did bother for a while in middle school was that I have been this height since 6th grade. So at one point it looked like I was going to be sort of tall. My Dad is 6'2"-6'3" and mom's a few inches shorter than me so I was hoping to get some of his height but wasn't meant to be 😩😂2
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I have to admit, it's kind of nice to be able to snuggle in and him rest his chin on my head. Also that he can wrap his arms all the way around me and then some, but that's really nothing to do with height!
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I have always been with women on the petite side. I was a teddy bear type. Now more of a weasel, wanting to become a grizzly without being stuffed again. People ask me do I like skinny gals or curvey gals... I just respond, "yes" lol5
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Armpits. I hate standing at armpit height on tubes and busses (5 feet 3) 🙁4
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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! 10 -
I'm between 5'3" and 5'4", depending on who's measuring. Being "short" doesn't bother me anymore. What did bother for a while in middle school was that I have been this height since 6th grade. So at one point it looked like I was going to be sort of tall. My Dad is 6'2"-6'3" and mom's a few inches shorter than me so I was hoping to get some of his height but wasn't meant to be 😩😂
My kids both outgrew me at around 11.5 I'm the shortest in my immediate family. I think I had some great aunts that were tiny; guess I got the short genes (and jeans!) 4 -
@psychod787 At least she won't have to worry about wearing heels around you! Mine barely get me above chin-level (But as discussed on page 1, I do not go for the 4-inch heels out of a sense of self-preservation) 2
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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:Spoiler
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Me, too.MostlyWater wrote: »
Actually, I grew in my 40's. Exercise did that for me !!!
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.
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.
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claireychn074 wrote: »Armpits. I hate standing at armpit height on tubes and busses (5 feet 3) 🙁
My 14yr old son's favorite thing to do is hug me and smash my face in his armpit.
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Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »Me, too.
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.
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?7 -
@psychod787 At least she won't have to worry about wearing heels around you! Mine barely get me above chin-level (But as discussed on page 1, I do not go for the 4-inch heels out of a That's ok... my ex wife did not make chin level without heals. Short, tall, thin, curvey,.... I think we can find beauty inside every woman. Now if I could just find one who can keep up with me and lives a MFP lifestyle. Good luck in my NECK of the woods.3
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No, I'm sure of it. Attached neck-roll-pillow-thingies are the spawn of Evil.
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. ) 6 -
Get a height measurement using one of those laser measuring things (I'm tired and can't find my words, cut me some slack). All my adult life I was just a bit over 5'3" at the doctor's office. In my late 50's my doctor started to use laser measurements, and I was suddenly almost 5'4". Which lasted until last year when I switched doctors, and now I'm back to 5'3". It's very sad.4
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Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »No, I'm sure of it. Attached neck-roll-pillow-thingies are the spawn of Evil.
(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?Spoiler
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psychod787 wrote: »That's ok... my ex wife did not make chin level without heals. Short, tall, thin, curvey,.... I think we can find beauty inside every woman. Now if I could just find one who can keep up with me and lives a MFP lifestyle. Good luck in my NECK of the woods.
Yeah, that's a tall order
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So I probably should post a picture of my latest cute shoe purchase, huh?Spoiler
Oh, the shoes! Adorable!2 -
Unfortunately, I am the one who usually falls short of their expectations... lol 😲5 -
That happened to me i though i was 5'9 and half. Got measured at the doctor it turned out to be 5'9. I don't want to get shorter1
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Right. Now just imagine them with half again as much space between toe and bow.
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...
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I'm 5' 6.5". People make fun of me for saying that, but for some reason neither 5'6" nor 5'7" feel right for me to say.1
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