I don't date shorter. I also don't date younger. I have done both, neither situation worked out well. (Yes, I dated a guy who was 5'1". It was entirely fucked up).
I've had girlfriends from 5'0"-6'2", so I guess that's a no for me. The funny things is I really don't realize how tall I am until I see a picture of myself in a group. Then I understand I'm a fucking giant. As far as slouching, I don't do it and it actually makes me appear shorter then someone who slouches. Most people guess I'm 2-3" shorter then I actually am.
I'm 5'9". It's fucking awesome being the exact height most things are designed for. I can find clothes in my size, sit in airline seats, and still reach things on the top shelf. You know what size every store and manufacturer carries and always has in stock? Medium. Default settings? Yep, works for me.
This place reminds me of a family reunion, I'm the second shortest of the guys at 6' tall, most are around 6'4" I have one cousin that's 5'10" and we mock him ruthlessly for being a midget. He's also the only one under 200 pounds, we don't consider him an adult.
Last time I had my height measured (digitally, by a machine that measured height and weight), I was 1,83m (exactly 6 foot) tall. Finding clothes that fit isn't hard - finding shoes when you're a U.K. 10.5 (U.S. 11.5 for those of you across the Atlantic) is the bitch. It usually takes me between 12 and 18 months to find a pair of shoes that fits properly, due to shoe importers here being masochistic dickheads and NOT importing any half-sizes. Usually, I can only find shoes that fit by lucking out on the day. Fuck you, idiot salesman, 9.5 times out of 10, a goddamn size 10 does NOT fit. This is also why when, I am at home, I am almost always barefoot. South Africans seem to have small feet - I usually battle to even find size 11's at shops. Women, don't bother applying if you're shorter than 5 foot 2, unless you willingly give out back massages for when my back gets too sore to reach you and I give up and collapse in a heap. Yep, the line starts on the left...* *This is me here. There's no line.
Wait...are you thinking about trying dating again? Was this your attempt at telling us that you are considering maybe bringing women back into your life?
I've been told it was quite the sight watching me unfold from my little sports cars, but as this picture shows I've got deceptive height. (Though I probably did drop a couple of inches by leaning back.)
The last birthday I really cared about was when I turned 21. Yes we can go out, you can buy me a drink, but I don't need some extravagant birthday bash to remind everybody I'm getting older. I remember a girl who had a birthday party where she demanded every other girl coming wear black and she was going to wear white. I can't imagine organizing something so vain.
I have an old co-worker/friend who is 6'2 and is the shortest in his close group of friends. The other 3 range from 6'3-6'6. Hanging out with them is a fucking bitch. I'm 5'11 and I feel like a fucking hobbit. My buddy's roommate however is 5'7, I imagine he is annoyed hanging out with them even more than me. Another interesting thing about height is when you grow and how you percieve it thereafter. I, like my dad, grew pretty late. I was fairly short for much of middle school/HS, probably went to college at about 5'7 and then proceeded to grow 3 inches my freshman year of college. And another inch or so the summer after. So now I'm above average height but have just begun thinking of myself as anything other than short. I was one of the short kids for so long that it took seeing pictures of myself around other shorter people to be like "huh, guess I'm not short anymore." I also don't have very long legs so I look shorter. I also applaud Durbanite for yet again exceeding expectations and finding yet another ridiculous thing to bitch about. Ill-fitting shoes? My god man, how do you not have ulcers from all that grumpiness?
I have a Hyundai tiburon that is too small even for me. Sometimes el husband has to drive it for one reason or another. His head is jammed against the roof and his knees are jammed into the underside of the steering column. Fuck small cars.
Boyfriend wants to go see a movie tonight and we're tossing around either Star Trek or Iron Man 3. Which should we see? (No spoilers - I haven't read a thing about either movie and have only seen one trailer apiece).
The new mini cooper has a good deal of room surprisingly, I was shocked when I got behind the wheel of one just to see if I could fit.
I'm 6'3, which is right at the junction of "tall for a random guy but short for an NBA player." I didn't grow particularly fast, I just grew steadily over the course of a while. I went from average in like 5th grade, to slightly above in 7th, to somewhat tall in 9th, to tall in 11th or so.
I did the majority of growing in a couple of years, I went from being a decent fist shorter than my best friend to that much and more taller than him over two years.