Five Days Of Suck Part 4: Fifty Shades Of Too Short

[pzychobitch]

>dead or in Florida<

Isn't that the same thing?

LMAO I love that!

[AngloSaxonViking]

>dead or in Florida<

Isn't that the same thing?

[PepperElf]

IIRC one of the nieces had to have this done, or might have to when she's older. I don't remember which (she was adopted from an orphanage & had a lot of medical issues including rickets etc).

I mentioned to my boyfriend and his immediate reaction was a painful hiss sound in sympathy.

[Treasure]

She could have have her femurs broken and use a modified Ilizerov frame to stretch them as they heal. Severely height challenged people can have this done. I would also assume from the memory of various broken bones that I used an illy frame with that this is fairly painful for what I would consider purely cosmetic.

As this tends to only be in the way of 2.5 cm to 5 cm I wouldn't imagine it worth doing for the amount and tenure of pain involved.

aaaahh!!! I lived through 2 family members having this done, not for cosmetic reasons, but to correct the bowing of their legs

Mom had it done on the thigh - and it took 3 years - she was also on such high doses of hydrocodone that it took a 5 pg rx.

older brother had it done on both the upper and lower legs.... I think that was also about 3 years....


I am also "short" - 4'10" and yes people comment on it a lot.... granted I usually get it at the club, where most people are wearing 3-8 inch platforms, and people meet me when I'm sitting - its not until I stand up, and am not any taller, or I've shrunk that they realize it.... but I have no problem reminding them that in TX 4.10 is a shotgun also, my elbow is *right* at solar-plexus height on most people, especially males; and if I swing my forearm down (straightening my arm) my fist is at another soft-fleshy area of the anatomy.... I have no problem demonstrating this gently, as a warning.... this usually elicits a response of "ooh, she's feisty, i like!"

[AccountingDrone]

People bitching at someone cause they're short always made me wonder. What do they expect you to do about it? Crawl into some machine & get stretched out? Blame your parents? Take 2 pills & see if that works & if it doesn't then bark at the doctor who prescribed it?

She could have have her femurs broken and use a modified Ilizerov frame to stretch them as they heal. Severely height challenged people can have this done. I would also assume from the memory of various broken bones that I used an illy frame with that this is fairly painful for what I would consider purely cosmetic.

As this tends to only be in the way of 2.5 cm to 5 cm I wouldn't imagine it worth doing for the amount and tenure of pain involved.

[taxguykarl]

I am short....Today, I had at least five people comment about how short I was. I gave the death glare to one woman who was not much taller than I am. Yet even she felt the need to comment on how short I was.

I had a GF who was a foot shorter than me. She liked to remind me: You may be bigger, but I'm meaner.

[morgana]

Y'all missed the perfect opportunity to have all of the ladies working there swarm him give him their (fake) phone numbers, pretend that they had reconsidered his lovely proposals, etc, with the girlfriend standing right there. If he tries to stop you, have everyone drop the act and comment, loudly, that he flirts with y'all every time he comes in...

One way or the other, you may never be bothered by him again ...

Evil, evil, evil! This could work . . .

[ralerin]

Well, today would be the fifth and final day of my week of suck. I have a 2 day not-much-of-a-respite because of my other job, then back on this weekend. So I'll say the week isn't over yet.

[PepperElf]

Be careful what you wish for. Maybe one of the prostitutes you mentioned in Part 1 will help you reach the gold... ?

Tho I hope not. Still it's only Wednesday...
*ducks*

[ralerin]

Am I the only one confused with the lack of blood in these stories? I mean I would be so sad if ralerin got injured at work, but the opening statement had me think she had. So I was confused.

The opening statement in part 3 had me talking about a perfect quintifectra (?) of suck, that included piss, shit, blood, tears and suck. I hit 4 of them in 2 days, just waiting on the blood to reach all 5 of them. Like the gold metal in the suck Olympics. No, wait, the gold metal would included semen and vomit.

[Marmalady]

I am short. Five feet high and somewhat unhappy about it.

Just remember, Ralerin - they don't make diamonds as big as bricks.

[Shalom]

I am short. Five feet high and somewhat unhappy about it. The racks at my pharmacy are high, about level with the top of my head..

Back when I worked at the Aid of Rite, about 11-12 years ago, one store that was two towns over from me (and this is in Nawth Joisey, where we call towns what other areas would call neighborhoods) had a pharmacist who was very tall. Also a control freak.

He started his stock shelves at about four feet off the ground and went right up almost to the ceiling. (Most pharmacies start from a few inches above the floor and end at about six feet up.) He also had his data-entry terminal so high that when I floated in his store, I had to sit on a stepladder to see the screen (it was literally above my eye level when I was standing on the floor, and I'm 5'8" with my shoes on). This guy had a phenomenal tech, and yet he wouldn't let her do anything but run the register and count tablets. Not even pull stuff off the shelves, and I think that's why he had them up so high, so she couldn't reach. She was a retired RN, for pete's sake. She knew her stuff, why not let her help?

(They were thinking of putting me in that store permanently as the second pharmacist, but we both knew that if we were stuck in the same building fulltime, if he didn't kill me, I'd kill him, so that didn't happen.)

[PepperElf]

Height - or any other body characteristic - yeah, it's not as if you didn't know. Like having a piece of lettuce stuck to your teeth that everyone else can see but you.

Like ... "You're short!"
"What? Get it off me!"

[dalesys]

Paging Dr. Procrustes, stat!


* the originator of "One size fits all!"

[hinakiba777]

well, there wasn't much suck to begin with. No blood, either.

Am I the only one confused with the lack of blood in these stories? I mean I would be so sad if ralerin got injured at work, but the opening statement had me think she had. So I was confused.

Commenting on someone's height is the same as commenting on their weight. It's personal. I would never comment on a stranger's height anymore than I would on their weight. .

To be honest, commenting on someone's height is more like comment on someone's ethnicity. "My you are awfully Latina aren't you?" "Are your parents black too?" I mean, it's genetic you can't do much about it.