The world is anti-tall

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Ricardo Kaka

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I hate it when people come up to me and say "It must be great to be so tall."

I have news for them. It's not fucking great. In fact, it fucking sucks.

Buying pants is a bitch. All the ones I have are starting to wear out and I can't buy more. Why? Because nobody carries them in my size. Actually, that's not true. Dress pants are easy to find in my size. But dress pants suck, and there's no way in fucking hell that I'm going to wear dress pants to work.

There are very few cars that I can fit comfortably in. I can't drive a mustang, I probably can't drive a camaro, or any other car that I actually like. Unless it's a nissan, because the Japanese have a better tolerance of Tall people, so they put more leg room into their cars. It makes no sense, but that's the way it is...
 
:hug2: I don't know what it's like to be so tall since I'm only 5' 6", but I do feel for ya. Try buying material to make a blanket for someone who is almost 7 feet tall. You get funny looks. You also get funny looks when you try to buy a hoodie for said person and try it on, then say, yep, it goes past my ass and beyond my arms, it should fit.
 
I like being tall, but it has drawbacks. Painful, sometimes humiliating drawbacks.

I don't have to worry about the pants thing yet, but some day it'll happen to me.
 
I'm tall too, so I know a bit about what you mean. I'm not old enough to drive yet, and my family just has vans and stuff so I won't be squished or anything. It does get annoying after a while when people look at you and the first thing they mention is that you're tall.
 
Yeah, my dad's 6'9" or something like that. Has to travel an hour to the nearest "Big and Tall" store to find clothes that fit. He hits his head off of ceiling lights/fans/door frames etc on an almost regular basis. And if he ever gets into an accident in one of our cars he's fucked.

My mom's only 5' so I'm of average height. Basketball is over-rated anyway.
 
I tried introducing him to the world of e-commerce. But he's one of those old fashioned "I would rather burn gas money than give my credit card number and pay shipping online" type of fellows. And he likes to see, smell, and try on his clothes before he buys them.
 
Being short is not all it's cracked up to be either. How often do you have to climb up the shelves in the grocery store to reach the cereal (or whatever)? I now go prepared with grapling hook, rope and 30 of my favorite yodels.

Or try watching a parade that's packed 6 deep from the curb. And why does the tallest person, or the one with the highest hair, choose to always sit right in front of me at the movie theater?

Guess we have it easier though. A booster seat isn't really much help to tall folks.
 
I agree Caffey, I'm short and I tell ya, buying pants in my size also is not easy. Most of the time they are still too long. I don't know how to hem so I just roll up my pants/jeans. I suppose it's a style, but I don't have a choice. I'm not going to go pay for someone to hem every pants I by. Heck capri's fit me like regular pants. I can only buy those in the spring and summer. The Gap has ankle length that fits me but they don't always have my size in ankle length so I just buy jeans I like and roll 'em up.

So there are down sides to both extremes. They need to make more clothes for those really tall peopel and those really short people. Not to mention to stop assuming very short people are skinny. I often find pants that are the perfect length but they are a size 1 or 2. I'm not that small! It seems that tall people can find at least pants that can find their waist line but not necessarily their length.
 
I have the same trouble, Bitch. Except in regular stores they assume people with my inseam have small waists. I have short legs for my height, so I can only find pants for short, skinny guys in regular stores. That's why I love casualmale. They have every waist/inseam combo I could imagine.
 
I wish they could make Casualfemale. :LOL: or something like Our pants sizes don't even include the pant length, it's all about the waistline. That's the major reason why fitting in pants is so difficult for the average woman. We aren't all the same and these pants are for women that ARE the same!
 
I've always wondered why female clothing doesn't move to the straightforward, logical system of numbers that reflect linear measurements.

Then it came to me....

A woman being able to say she has a size 1 waist feels a lot better about herself than if she says she has a 20 inch waist (not all women feel that way, i know, i'm generalizing).

Heck, my daughter almost cried when I told her the size pants she wanted were way too tight for her and she should move up a size.
 
Testify my brother! I can relate to everything you just said. I hate it when people ask me if I play basketball. Just because I am tall doesn't mean that I play basketball. Hell, I don't ask fat people if they're in the opera, why should you ask me if I do something becauseof how I look. Isn't that what stereotyping is? Damn...

That's not to say short people have it any better though. My friend is 15 and 4'9", he has it pretty rough.
 
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