Tim Kenney
New member
Sorry this is extremely long, but I'm still in a state of embarrassment after yesterday. Okay, I know I'm short. But I had no idea my height is considered to be the average height of a 10-11 year old!? And no I'm not a midget either just short thanks to my mom's side and my dad not being too tall himself. I'm 18 and 4'10", I weigh around 88lbs. So yesterday my senior "buddies class" went to the public elementary school in our district to help out the 6th grade girl's cheerleading squad on a local fundraiser project. My biggest mistake ever. They needed our help to teach them how to understand approach people and accept money (pretty pointless stuff, they didn't really pay attention) But that's not the point. There was only ONE girl on this squad shorter than me, and not by much. Mean, ok.. I knew going into it that I wasn't going to be taller than every girl but to be shorter than 13 of 14 girls was totally unexpected. What was even more embarrassing was how there were specifically three girls who had to have had parents 8 feet tall b/c they were each around 5'7" at least and my eyes didn't even come up to their shoulders so yeah I stayed as far as possible from them. It gets worse tho. At the end of our half hour meeting, the teachers wanted a group picture of both the squad and my class. Well when they became aware of taking a picture, they immediately prepared themselves in a straight line and begged me to stand in the front and middle. So now here's me, the only senior from my class (the rest stood in the far back,) standing by the 6th graders looking up to them while the two next to me rested their arms on my shoulders and made such a fake, typical cheerful face into the camera. After the first pic, the teacher asked that one girl I was actually barely taller than to stand next to me to balance the front row, but expectantly right before the flash of the camera, she stood on her tippie toes to stand taller than me. And you guessed it, this photo will be in our local newspaper. How can I ever get over this? I can't stop picturing all of them laughing at me and thinking I was at first in the fourth grade. Even right before we left, one of the girls came up to me acting sincere and actually faked me into believing she had a question about money before she made my face turn as red as a tomato when she out of nowhere bent down alittle to kiss my cheek and then say "you looked so adorable trying to help me cutie, but you just don't quite reach the bar to have me." WHAT? It was a joke and I'm 100% positive she only did it b/c it was a bet, after it happened I realized now what she all said sounded scripted. Anyways, sorry this is so long, but please help me feel better anyway you can. Is there anything out there to help me grow at least like 4" that's all im asking for. My mom's 5'1" and dad is 5'5" My friends didn't help me out at all throughout this and were even laughing along. Mean they know I usually don't get mad anymore when being picked on with my height, but this scenario, I wanted to just pee my pants and wake up from this nightmare. Please somehow encourage me with any of your embarrassing stories to make me feel somewhat better about myself