Stuff You Get To Hear Over and Over as a Tall Girl

Found a hilarious video everyone should check out: “S*** Everybody says to TALL Girls.” Enjoy!

 

 

This really is the sort of stuff that I hear every day, so it doesn’t make the blog unless the comments are part of an atypical situation.  My favorite from the video: “Are you the Little Spoon?”

WHAT? There is a Tall Girl Documentary??

The other day, a co-worker sent me the best link every.  Seriously.  It made my day.  Actually, since it was sent to me on a Thursday, it made my weekend, too.

http://tallgirls-thefilm.com/page/

Yep.  It’s a documentary about tall girls.  I am so excited.  The author of the Tall Book is apparently going to be featured pretty prominently throughout, but the documentary also looks at the lives of a couple younger tall girls who have had surgery or who are undergoing hormone therapy so they don’t grow so tall.  (I can already tell some of that is going to be heartbreaking.)  Also, it features two 6’2″ models who are apparently often told they are too tall to be a model.

Anyway, I’m pretty excited!

Young Sister

This weekend, I was shopping with my sister in Dallas, TX (I was there for a wedding).  We were at NorthPark Center, which is the best mall ever, hands down.  While checking out at one store, we ended up with the chatty-ist checkout person.

Checkout Person: You two are sisters, right?

My sister: Yep

Checkout Person: You look just alike.

Us: Yeah

Checkout Person: Who is the older one?  I think you are [points at my sister, who is younger]

My sister: Oh, no, actually I’m younger.  Why do I look older?

Checkout Person: Well, usually the younger sibling ends up being the tallest one.

I guess that’s technically true in my family, because my brother is tallest.  But I feel like he should be tallest–he is a guy after all. At any rate, we’ve never heard that before–that the younger sibling is the taller one–but it could be true.  Or the lady could have just been trying to recover from saying my sister looked older than me. Who knows.

In other news, I finished about half of my Christmas shopping while I was there.  I feel poor now.

Being Tall is Apparently a Competition

Recently, I was in BabiesRUs to get presents for all of the people I know (SO MANY) having babies lately.  My boyfriend came with me.  And as a result, we had the privilege of engaging in some great conversation with the checkout dude. (Sarcasm font)

Checkout Dude: Not too often that you see two tall people together.

Me: I guess.

Checkout Dude to My Boyfriend: How tall are you?

My Boyfriend: 6’6″

Checkout Dude: I got you beat [notably, Checkout Dude was not taller than My Boyfriend].  My girlfriend’s dad is 6’8″

Can you tell me what the point of this conversation was?  Was this guy so upset by the fact that someone was taller than him, that he needed to point out knowing someone even taller?  It’s so strange.

Me: Well how tall is your girlfriend?

Checkout Dude: Tall, but not as tall as you.

Me: Well I guess I have you beat then.

 

A Few From the Last Few Months

I think I mentioned that I’ve been working like crazy for the last few months, so if you happen to still check the blog from time to time and are missing the updates, I’m sorry!  I’m going to try to do a lot better with posting new content from now on.

Just because I haven’t been blogging doesn’t mean the “Tall Encounters” have stopped, though!  Unfortunately, I don’t remember the context of a lot of the situations, so I’m just going to throw a few recent comments into one post.

Guard: Excuse me, ma’am?  I’m not going to ask you the question everyone asks you, so I’m just going to stand next to you.

Because that’s so much better, Mr. Guard…

IT Person to my boss when I was recently in Dallas for work: That girl shouldn’t wear heels.

Probably not, but I’m going to anyway…

Tall Older Relative to my sister: Why is your brother dating a midget?  My son is dating a midget, your brother is.  This has got to stop.

Ok, that last one wasn’t annoying so much as just funny.  I like my brother’s short girlfriend though.  She’s nice.  But in the past, I did joke (ok, so I was semi-serious) with my 6’5″ brother that he shouldn’t be dating girls shorter than 5’10″.  This girl is maaaaaaybe 5’3″.

 

Wedding Fun

One thing that really does bug me is when a short girl comments on my height. Even though they aren’t trying to be rude, they usually are. Last night, while I was walking into a bathroom at the wedding I was attending, a short (drunk) girl was walking out. She must have been surprised to see me because she mumbled, “Whoa, big girl!” Ugh!! I’m not big, I’m tall.

At least three members of my family wanted to say something to her. My sister was pissed.