You're so skinny!

[Becks]

Permanantly Borrowed!

Hmmmmmmm, that sounds kind of familiar...

Let's have mole children!

Best. Pickup. Line. EVER.

[iradney]

Though glasses work on me universally. Hey! You're as blind as I am! Let's have mole children!

*shoves TTO into a closet and locks the door*

If you insist...will you come to SA or shall I quickly fly up to Canuckistan?

[Fenrus]

Let's see... I'm between 5'10" and 6' depending on who's measuring.. weigh a whopping 120lbs... I'm skinny skinny....

I always get the "are you on a diet?" or "I think you have an eating disorder"...

Hell, all through high school, a couple close friends made me a super hero, Anorexia Boy! It was... rather annoying, to say the least...

I mean to hit the gym, just never make the time. Also, can go days with only 1 meal, or sometimes less, like a quick snack. I just know how to incorporate fruit into my pizza and burger gamer diet.

[MoxisPilot]

I get a lot of that, but not because of my weight (for someone who weighs as much as I do, I certainly don't look it). Nope, I get the freckles and skin tone comments. I'm naturally light-skinned and very freckly - I don't tan. I turn into a giant freckle.

I had one kid ask me why I had so many pimples (referring to my freckles).
I've had people ask me why I don't stay inside so I don't have so many freckles (WHY would you tell someone this? Brain dammage?)
I've been told I'm too pale and should get more sun (as opposed to going out and having too many freckles...?)
I also get comments on my feet, which are size 11.5 (41/43 Europe). I have to order shoes online, so I wind up explaining to people why I don't buy shoes at the market or in Italian stores.

Since we moved out here, my husband's been asked a lot of he plays for the Avellino basketball team (they have American team members, and my husband's tall - so he must be here to play b-ball!)

Nothing too bad, though. You learn to live with it all.

[Akasa]

In high school and college I was the 5'2 100lbs wet girl, then in my late 20's my thyroid pooped out on my about the same time I was bed ridden for 3 mos. OMG did the weight pack on! I gto to a size 24 before being in my doctors office in tears because NOTHING I did would make weight come off. I mean we're talking a couple hands full of pop corn a day for a week and still gaining weight at a rapid rate.(I know not healthy but I was desperate to see that it wasn't my eating habits.)
I had one woman walk up to me and ask me the due date. When I told her I wasn't expecting she didn't even have teh decency to act shamed.

I'm now down to an "average weight," but very curvy.(When I started loosing weight and got down to a size 14 I grew boobs! From a C to a DD. I always heard of loosing boobage when you loose weight not gain!)

I'm also one of the looks younger than I am. I'm n my early 30's and get hit on by teenagers still. If I'm SURE they're underage I look at them and say "Felony." Only a couple have gotten what I meant.

[Gravekeeper]

Best. Pickup. Line. EVER.

Somehow I doubt it would actually work. ><

If you insist...will you come to SA or shall I quickly fly up to Canuckistan?

Of course I could be mistaken. <cough>

[Rapscallion]

Best. Pickup. Line. EVER.

Friend of mine offered someone he'd been failing with the chat-up line of offering her a piggy-back to their shared room. Oddly enough, she demurred.

Of course, this didn't stop him from trying to demonstrate with another chap, who subsequently wouldn't let go...

Yes, alcohol was involved.

How does that compare?

Rapscallion

[Geek King]

Slightly OT but what the crap is with that? Where's the love for the 6'2, curvy women--because I'm certainly not feeling it from the guys taller than I am

6' 4", and I've dated a very curvy 6' 0" lady despite my geekiness mainly because shorter guys were intimidated by her. Sadly, we had nothing in common. I'm a role-playing, videogaming computer geek and she was a shopping addict who thought her body would last forever. I hate shopping, and she could spend all weekend at the mall. It just never really worked.

Nothing wrong with tall women. Nothing wrong with short women. Women with brains and a sense of humor are my favorites, though.

[Jester]

I stand at all of 5 foot 5, and weigh about 90 pounds soaking wet.

I'm five foot flat and skinny as a rail too.

There are some of us who actually are into the whole petite woman thing.

So my answer became the normal "Look at this place, do you see a moment of peace here?" laugh, and go on to the next table.

Great answer. I think it is a great way to answer these people, make a point, dismiss the question, and move on without offending them, all at the same time.

I'm 5'3 1/2 and about 120 lbs. Some people think I'm too skinny (I'm all boobs and butt), some people think I'm just right, and some people (damn modeling agencies and stupid guys and girls) think I'm fat.

And some people a lot of people are fucking idiots. Just remember that.

I have a friend who is 6'2 and is dating girl who is 4'7.

Four SEVEN?!?!?!?!?!?!??! Seriously?!??!!? The shortest girls I have met have been 4'11" or, occasionally, 4'10". Wow.

Trayol, this may not apply to everyone, but most taller guys I know prefer shorter girls. My mom was 5'2 before she started shrinking and my dad is 6'4.

And some of us shorter guys like shorter girls, too!

The other thing I hate is when they ask me how I keep my weight under control. I think they want me to say something like "Oh, I have a magical fairy that comes around every night and sprinkles special sparkling fairy dust on my ass to keep it from growing." Because when I say "I follow a low carb lifestyle" they act like I just crapped on their foot.

See, people don't want actual answers. Because when you tell them what you do to actually look like you look, they get all pissy. They are probably the same people who get all excited when those commercials for those magical weight-loss pills come on tv. I personally think you SHOULD start using the magical fairy line more often. At least then you would shut some of them up.

At least you're not the one getting dirty stares from people when you're walking down the street with a guy...

I used to date a girl who, like you, looked extremely young (like she was 12 or 13).

I once dated a girl who was 25 but looked around 17-19, depending, and looked REALLY young when she did her hair in pigtails. Since I don't always look my age, but was obviously at least in my late 20's or early 30's, we would occasionally get some really dirty looks when we were out and about.

Fuck those idiots.

Or, I get people asking me for my "secret." They're never happy when I tell them to eat less and work out more.

People just don't want to face the facts that eating sensibly (or less junk) and exercising is the only real way to get in shape, no matter what those aforementioned commercials may claim.

One particular gem from my horror days at Friendly's ...

Another Friendly's alum! That was my first real job!

[Gravekeeper]

One of my friends in high school was only about 4'10. She was adorable but looked like she was 10 years old. Then her and her boyfriend ( also a good friend ) got in a car accident and it knocked out both her front teeth. So now she was 4'10 and had two missing teeth up front. Which made her look even younger and more adorable.

A boulder fell on their car. Yes, that's right. A boulder. Welcome to British Columbia.

[Pairou]

So now she was 4'10 and had two missing teeth up front. Which made her look even younger and more adorable.

Aah, that made *me* squeak. XD Is it sad that all I could think was, "I wanna draw that comic!"


I had a fight with someone a few days ago. (Maybe yesterday, I haven't been sleeping well so I can't remember.) He's one of the guys that can't stop trying to pick me up. Well, he's threatened to toss me in a pool. I'm not afraid of water, and I used to swim like a fish, but I really, really don't like being wet. So now he treats me like a *widdle bitty cat.*

My reply? I bite him. Hard. Like a cat.

[Pairou]

I have to warn those who want to pick up a short girl and whirl them around. Ask first. If you get a DO NOT TOUCH ME look, she most likely does NOT want you to pick her up and whirl her around. She will definitely bite you somehow and NO you would not like it.

(damn, Pairou, you beat me to the biting thing. Guess I'm not the only one who does that!)

The only time it backfired was when I met someone who was addicted to pain. I bit him once and he didn't stop shivering for a good half hour. Luckily, it only worked if a girl did it, and I had a few guy friends always looking for an excuse to kick him in the knees.

He finally stopped when he realized that I was a senior, not a "freshie" as he'd assumed. (He was a sophomore or junior at the time. I think the seniority scared him.)

I've met people claiming it wouldn't faze them. Cue the picking up. Followed by howls of pain and looks of amusement from everyone else.

[Becks]

ever seen a short person asked to get something off the bottom shelf?

Oddly enough, I don't think I was ever asked that question, but I had a woman who was taller than me ask me to get something that was out of her reach.

Somehow I doubt it would actually work.

Oh, I don't know.

How does that compare?

I'm not sure how that compares (but for what it's worth, I would LOVE a piggy back ride...), but I would've loved to have seen it.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Slightly OT but what the crap is with that? Where's the love for the 6'2, curvy women--because I'm certainly not feeling it from the guys taller than I am

I have a friend who is 6'0" and her husband is at least 6'3". So they're out there.

I also went to college with a couple in which he was a good foot taller than her, and another couple in which she was a head taller than him (they got married after she graduated and when I saw them at the 5 year reunion they had an adorable little baby, who would be around 6-7 now).

I guess I'll enjoy this more when I'm 40.

I'm 32 and people usually guess me to be in my mid-twenties. Though in the last year or so I haven't gotten carded much for alcohol. Not sure how I feel about that one...

I've been told I'm too pale and should get more sun (as opposed to going out and having too many freckles...?)

I get this a lot. I'm very pale. I don't even freckle all that much, though I have noticed some more than usual this summer (though I've been outside more than usual lately, too). I get people telling me I should go to the tanning salon, too. Uh, no. I say "I don't tan, I burn." and they say "Well, you burn first then it turns into a tan." No, it doesn't. Not only is that physically impossible, I burn and then I turn white again. If I'm lucky I don't go all flaky first.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Somebody tells you you are "too pale", just ask them "too pale for what?"

And bug them till they answer.