I need a hug (and a stepladder)

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  • mph323
    mph323 Posts: 3,565 Member
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    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.
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,874 Member
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    psychod787 wrote: »
    pinuplove wrote: »
    @psychod787 At least she won't have to worry about wearing heels around you! Mine barely get me above chin-level :lol: (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.

    Yeah, that's a tall order :tongue:
  • mph323
    mph323 Posts: 3,565 Member
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    pinuplove wrote: »
    Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »
    pinuplove wrote: »
    Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »
    MostlyWater wrote: »
    patsyacs wrote: »
    you're right every fraction counts :)
    and you know that we shrink as we age. I was 5'3+ now in my 60s I'm at 5'2

    Actually, I grew in my 40's. Exercise did that for me !!!
    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. :)
    pinuplove wrote: »
    claireychn074 wrote: »
    Armpits. I hate standing at armpit height on tubes and busses (5 feet 3) 🙁

    :tired_face:

    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 :cry:

    It's a cruel, cruel world :lol: Bright side - we fit better in airplane seats!
    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! :lol::wink:

    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?
    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?
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    Oh, the shoes! Adorable!
  • michael1976_ca
    michael1976_ca Posts: 3,488 Member
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    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 shorter
  • Evelyn_Gorfram
    Evelyn_Gorfram Posts: 706 Member
    edited September 2018
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    mph323 wrote: »
    pinuplove wrote: »
    Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »
    pinuplove wrote: »
    Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »
    MostlyWater wrote: »
    patsyacs wrote: »
    you're right every fraction counts :)
    and you know that we shrink as we age. I was 5'3+ now in my 60s I'm at 5'2

    Actually, I grew in my 40's. Exercise did that for me !!!
    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. :)
    pinuplove wrote: »
    claireychn074 wrote: »
    Armpits. I hate standing at armpit height on tubes and busses (5 feet 3) 🙁

    :tired_face:

    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 :cry:

    It's a cruel, cruel world :lol: Bright side - we fit better in airplane seats!
    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! :lol::wink:

    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?
    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?
    fw04gws63vty.jpg
    ohkix8xw304v.jpg

    Oh, the shoes! Adorable!
    Right. Now just imagine them with half again as much space between toe and bow.

    (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...

  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
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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.
  • Lillymoo01
    Lillymoo01 Posts: 2,865 Member
    edited September 2018
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    pinuplove wrote: »
    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! :lol:

    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 :tongue: 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 ;)
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
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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)
  • Lillymoo01
    Lillymoo01 Posts: 2,865 Member
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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?
  • mph323
    mph323 Posts: 3,565 Member
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    Is this an inappropriate time to mention the "Short People" song from the mid-seventies?
  • snowflake954
    snowflake954 Posts: 8,400 Member
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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)

    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.

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