What is your personal experience with height?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

Poll question: What is your personal experience with height?

[Maine-ah]

1. freakin' short. 4'11"

[Maccagirl]

25. Me, too

and there isn't anything "cute" about it.

[taterguy]

2. 6' 3"

Only comes in handy at concerts

[Mutley]

Tall.

5'9" last I measured (with a ruler :P ).

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

3. I'm 5'1" 107lbs of asskicking skills.

Not to be underestimated.

[TBreeze]

4. I chose other

I'm 5'4, but I've been told that without the scoliosis, I'd be between 5'5-5'6. :shrug:

[miss_american_pie]

5. I'm still 5'9"

;)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Ah, I used to be 5'8".......

But time and age have worked their worst on me....

Now I'm just 5'7"......:cry:

I still consider myself to be tall, BTW......

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. My Dearest CaliforniaPeggy, as a woman at that height, I think most would

consider you tall.

Cheers! :toast:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Wow! I thank you!

You just made my day, sweetie!

Back atcha! :toast:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

12. Aww, just 5' 7"...

Poor Peggy.....Never mind the fact that I'm 5'0", and not getting any taller, even though I should be/should already have....

:P :P :P

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. My point is, my dear WIMR......

It's not that 5'7" is short...it isn't....

BUT....I'd lost some height, and had been unaware of it.

It is a body image change, and as such, is hard to accept.

:hi:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

22. LOL!

I know. We're all just giving you a hard time about it.

:P :P

:hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. 6' 2" now, but

amazingly, I was once only 20 1/2 inches.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Most likely at birth......

That being a normal length for newborns......

6'2" is niiiiiice, BTW.....

:blush:

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. Yeah, but

it was like a week or so before I started to grow out of it.

Seriously, it didn't start looking like I was gonna be tall until junior high and my first couple years in high school. I think I was 5' 8" in eighth grade (and played center on the basketball team) and I hit six feet the summer between my sophomore and junior years.

Funny thing was, by then I was a forward. 'Course, we had Danny Cunningham at center. He was 6' 10".

(College hoops fans might remember Cunningham as the guy who went to UNLV to play for Tarkanian and blew it by being involved in a bike-theft ring.)

[RevCheesehead]

26. Shortie.

I was 22-1/2 inches at birth. :P
But I stopped at 5'10"

I agree - 6'2" is nice! :loveya:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

10. Chronically short.

Always will be.

I've made peace with this.

:D

On edit: I'm 5'0", and for those of you who say "Oh, you'll still grow"--I haven't grown in a year, maybe even more. Anyway, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I could actually reach things.... :D

[khashka]

50. Cool!

As a woman being short should be no problem....
You can wear high heeled shoes and heeled boots without towering over a man and intimidating him.
As for reaching things.... just ask :)

Khash.

[Fleshdancer]

11. 5'3" n/t

[RebelOne]

42. 5'3" also.

used to be 5'3-1/2, but as I've gotten older, I lost the 1/2 inch.

[txwhitedove]

13. 5'10", but used to be taller...

[WindRavenX]

15. very short. 4'11''.

:D

[johnnie]

17. 5'5" - 5'6"

But I walk tall.

[City Lights]

18. 5'2" and shrinking.

:-(

[6000eliot]

20. 6' 2" So I said tall.

[donsu]

21. I'm 5'1" on the outside but 5'10" on the inside

has been my reply when someone comments on my shortness.

[annonymous]

23. I was below average height and weight until I was 16.

Between the ages of 14 and 16, I grew 8 inches. I was 4'8" at 14 and ended up 5'4" at 16. I didn't reach my full height of 5'6" until I was 23.

[diamondsndust]

24. 6'2 1/2" .....n/t

[samplegirl]

27. platform shoes

[Starbucks Anarchist]

28. 5'8" or so, up to 6' depending on the hair.

:D

[dysfunctional press]

29. i used to be 6'3"...

but a spinal condition and fallen arches have conspired to reduce me to a less stately 6'.

[BlueStorm]

30. 5'2" I'm a little shorty n/t

[American Tragedy]

31. I was the tallest person in my early grade school classes, but...

...then I stopped growing, and virtually everyone rapidly passed me up! I'm 5'4".

[havocmom]

32. You're not too short if your feet reach all the way to the ground

:D

[Digit]

33. 4'11"

[BreweryYardRat]

34. 6'2"

And proud of it.

[LostInAnomie]

35. Six feet even.

I used to be 6'1" but I shrank.

[ZombieNixon]

36. Six feet.

Is that "medium" or "tall"? :shrug:

[khashka]

48. Same here 6 feet

I sometimes think it makes me a carnival freak... most people only have 2 feet...

Joking aside, I'm 6 foot tall.

Khash.

[ps1074]

54. same here - 6 feet

I consider it medium for a man. Oddly enough all my friends are taller than me, so when we get together I look short :(

[reyd reid reed]

37. I'm 5'6"

Too short to be considered tall, too tall to be considered short.

Average, average, average.

(edited to beat the keyboard gremlins into submission...back, BACK I say!)

[Missy Vixen]

38. I'm 5'4"

Everything must be hemmed. I keep hearing this is the average height for an American woman.

Sure it is. :eyes:

Julie

[Brigid]

39. 4'9".

And sometimes people can be just plain dumb. I have had people pat me on the head like a dog; lean on me (until I move away); and even come up to me (perfect strangers, mind you), stare down at me and say, "How tall are you?" :grr:

[gkdmaths]

40. 6-4

I work with a chemist in the 5-2 category. she kicks around a wheeled step-stool in front of her so she can write mechanisms on the hood sash for me to read. its SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO funny, but a damn good chemist. I always want to pick her up, but that would be bad, very very bad.

[MikeH]

41. It is a gruesome story

how I came to be tall. I was once a little boy, and then I grew some. I am 6'4".

Neither of my parents were particularly tall, and I don't think I was especially big when I was a child. So it was quite a surprise for everybody when I grew to be tall when I was an adolescent.

However I was not at all athletic, and gym classes in junior high and high school were miserable for me. Thus I hated it when anybody would ask me if I played basketball.

There is a club for tall people, with chapters in I think about 65 cities. Their web site is at

http://www.tall.org/

Height requirements are 6'2" for men, and 5'10" for women.

[Rhiannon12866]

43. I feel as if I'm short, by today's standards, at 5' 5 1/2"...

For a female, I think that's average, but my cousins are taller than I am, but my friends are mostly shorter...:shrug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

44. That's definitely average.

Hell, I come a family of tall people. I had one short grandmother and she had to give me her genes. I'm 5'1" and my first cousin is 6'1". No one ever believes I'm related to her.

[Rhiannon12866]

51. My family's also equally divided.

My maternal grandmother was only 5', while my paternal grandmother was 5'7", quite tall for her generation. I guess that I fall somewhere in between, LOL! But my female cousins, on my father's side, are all Amazons, compared to me, 5'8", or so... But I guess that I'd rather be of average height than 6' tall, like your cousin. Being exceptionally tall, especially for a girl, has its own disadvantages...:-)

[SeattleGirl]

45. Tall for a girl, I suppose, at 5'7"

Problem I have is my legs are long, so finding pants that don't look like highwaters is a pain in the arse! (Not that I think having long legs is a bad thing.....:evilgrin: )

[Yollam]

46. I'm tall, and it's overrated.

I'm not good at sports, so it almost never comes in handy except maybe changing light bulbs. I'm 6'2", so in Japan, it's a major pain - I always hit my head on doors here. :banghead:

[yvr girl]

47. I was tall, now I'm average

I'm 5'5". I've only grown about an inch since grade 5. I was always one of the tall kids until junior high, then other people started passing me.

[In_The_Wind]

49. 5' 3"

I'm tall enough to ride all the fun things! BTW ~ I was taller. :evilgrin:

[Rhiannon12866]

52. I assume by "fun things," you mean amusement park rides...

When I worked at The Great Escape, you had to be as tall as the sign to go on the really cool rides...:D

[wildhorses]

53. 5' 10" n/t

[u4ic]

55. I'm afraid of them

good thing I'm not too tall - 5'5. :D

[marzipanni]

56. As I got taller

it was harder to go under the limbo stick.
Also, when I take off my trifocals the ground is no longer magnified, so I feel taller.
Getting near the edge of a cliff makes me feel nervous.

[greatauntoftriplets]

57. 5' 10"

and female (obviously, from my username).

[NJ Democrats]

58. Tall

I'm 5'9, the 9th tallest in my class. Plus I still have several years of growth left.