No, I'm not 12. No, I'm not a boy.

[Greenday]

Macaroni Grill does that too...and all the colors have Italian-food-inspired names (I guess Crayola does custom wrappers for them)...the server has to learn to write their name upside down on the tablecloth. And if you want to do the build-your-own pasta dish, you get an order form with all the options and you check off what you want with the crayons...I'm not crazy about their food but it's fun to eat there, and in the bathrooms they have how-to-learn-Italian CDs playing so you can learn a few words while you pee

Hell yea! That's the first thing I thought about when I read about Garfields on here. Macaroni Grill ftw!

[MCSledgehammer]

Heh, people started thinking I was 25 at, oh, about 14. Must be the boobage, and the fact that I'm not a dithering moron like so much of my peer group. However, at 5'0", I'm not exactly on the tall side. Top shelves are evil.

[cinema guy]

Top shelves are evil.

They are indeed.

Princess Snake you have my sympathies. I'm a smallish guy who looks young and I was always getting age checked until I was about 24. These days I have a beard - not an option for you I know

[Princess-Snake]

I suppose I could try stilts. Of course, then I would have to get over my fear of heights...

[blas]

I love top shelves and things that are way too high for me to reach. Then I can climb and not get in trouble for it.

I hate ladders and stools, though.

[JustADude]

Bah! Try having to deal with getting things from the back of the bottom shelf of an under-table cooler every few minutes when you're 6'5", and then you'll know Evil!

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Short people get to ask tall people to grab stuff off of shelves all the time like we have some beholden duty to be living step-ladders, and we look like bullies and jerks if we say no. Let a tall person ask someone who doesn't have to get down on one knee and twist to get their arm low enough, which is NOT comfortable, to grab them something off a bottom shelf, though, and we're once again bullies and jerks for picking on the short person, plus lazy for not doing it ourselves.
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[Broomjockey]

[rant]
Short people get to ask tall people to grab stuff off of shelves all the time like we have some beholden duty to be living step-ladders, and we look like bullies and jerks if we say no. Let a tall person ask someone who doesn't have to get down on one knee and twist to get their arm low enough, which is NOT comfortable, to grab them something off a bottom shelf, though, and we're once again bullies and jerks for picking on the short person, plus lazy for not doing it ourselves.
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YES! Exactly! Gods below, is it so wrong that I don't feel like becoming a contortionist in order to reach into that space? Gah!

[BookstoreEscapee]

I love top shelves and things that are way too high for me to reach. Then I can climb and not get in trouble for it.

I hate ladders and stools, though.

hehee, I am the same way. When I was a kid I was small for my age (didn't catch up to my classmates until about 7th grade); I learned to climb on counters and whatever. I am still perfectly comfortable standing on a swivel-chair with wheels (which I used to do in the cash room at the store to get gift cards down from the top shelf). Why go hunting for a stool? I also would climb the shelves in receiving rather than lug over the ladder, which was hard to maneuver back there anyway, and also rather shaky. I'd rather stand on a wheeled swivel chair

[MoonChild2007]

I'm just petite. Although my doctors are currently debating over whether it's because of my disorder or whether it's genetics. My grandmother on my dad's side was about an inch taller than me. Which is weird because my dad is 6'1".

Believe me, I am 5'0 and my parents, even my sister are around 5'8-6'0. I don't understand why my YOUNGEST sister is taller than me while I am 5 feet. like you, I must have gotten it from my dad's grandmother's side.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Believe me, I am 5'0 and my parents, even my sister are around 5'8-6'0. I don't understand why my YOUNGEST sister is taller than me while I am 5 feet. like you, I must have gotten it from my dad's grandmother's side.

I am right smack in the middle of my parents. It's like they just took the average of their heights when combining their genes. My mom is 5'1", my dad is about 5"8, and I am just over 5'4". I think my brother is a couple inches taller than my dad.

[Bella_Vixen]

"Short people get to ask tall people to grab stuff off of shelves all the time like we have some beholden duty to be living step-ladders..."

Sorry, JustADude! Will you forgive me? ::batting eyelashes::

Princess-Snake "I suppose I could try stilts. Of course, then I would have to get over my fear of heights... "

I always tell people that I'm short because I'm afarid of heights. When they finally get it, they think it's hilarious.

[NightAngel]

LOL! I'm taller than my SM. One day we needed something off the top shelf in the office and he was trying to be a gentleman and said, "Here, let me get that for you." But he couldn't quite reach it so I grabbed it and pulled it down- no problem.

Him: *laughing* "Yeah! You don't need no man!"
Me: "Damn straight."
Him: "I really would have gotten it for you- somehow..."
Me: "It's okay, it's not your fault you're short."
Him: "You're never going to let me live down that you're taller than me are you?"
Me: "Heck no. I don't get to be taller than guys very often!"

We both had a good laugh... guess who has to get everything down now?


I should clarify, I suppose, that we banter in this fashion constantly. We find ourselves to be quite funny.

[tollbaby]

*snicker* JustADude, I never do that with strangers, but since my boyfriend is 8 inches taller than me, I do make him reach and get stuff down for me. Although it's usually something he's had the nerve to place out of my reach to begin with LOL Last time he visited, he put the cover for my food processer up on TOP of the kitchen cupboards... even on a chair I couldn't reach it! The morning after he arrived this visit, I made him take it down LOL I haven't been able to use my food processor since January!

[AnqeiicDemise]

Well...

My fiance's always getting hit on by men because he looks like a woman from the back. (Its the long, curly hair.)

You should see the look on men's faces when a rather deep voice goes "Why, thank you honey, I am so flattered!" and is then accompanied by a somewhat fuzzy face.

[Alephcat]

going back to the ID posts somewhat, I have never been asked for ID in my entire life and have never carried it either.

I have long curly hair as well, but never get mistaken for female. Maybe they are something to do with my being 6ft 4in and quite broad across the shoulders