When I was young blokes would often pick me up and carry me around.

[homemadecommunistrussia]

It used to annoy me a bit- I thought they were taking the piss out of me being so short.
It just occurred to me they might have been after a 'cuddle' instead!

im so confused by this

A man once tried a fireman's lift with me and ended up chucking me over his shoulder entirely. It wasn't even a dignified fall, I just sort of slithered down him.
Fortunately, I'm quite stocky so no one has tried that again.

@middleager

This thread has reminded me of these Matchbox dolls from the 70s/80s.

OMG what a flash back - I'd forgotten those !

OP is your surname Pontipine ?

@homemadecommunistrussia

Nope not a troll- just a shortarse. Never have been tiny or wanted to be. When it happened I just assumed it was a piss take. Then last night I thought well I thought everyone who asked me out was taking the piss, so maybe i was just an innocent with low self esteem. Never mind though.

Just hopping on to confirm this (the not-a-troll part, we mean, not the shortarse bit)

In case you're confused, OP, we've had a problem in the past with a troll who likes to post about how teeny tiny she is, so we just wanted to confirm that you are in fact a long-standing member of the site.

@Iamthewombat that’s driving me nuts - what book is it?!

Once on a night out I picked up a male friend, in the style of carrying your wife over the door threshold after the wedding, and carried him a short distance. He said it made him feel "emasculated in a good way".

at the teeny tiny troll. How odd.
I got this in secondary school too. Only from the real Neanderthals (who would probably consider themselves 'alpha males') though. I felt it was more about them and their need to show off and use up some energy.

@PumpkinSpiceGirl The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll?

Yeah, The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll, good spot!

I'm 4'10 and very slim, but I can't say people picking me up has been a regular occurrence.... i do suffer from 'resting bitch face' as they call it, so maybe men think that if they try to pick me up i'd try to wallop them

Did it look like this when they lifted you?

@Lobsterquadrille2 @Iamthewombat thank you! I don’t remember that name at all but I definitely remember the book and now need to buy and re-read it!

I've always been a husky girl, but two of my best friends are pixie like and it happened to them. The lads in question would back off when they saw me.

Until one memorable occasion in a pub, when a gentleman known locally as "The Mad Farmer" took it upon himself to pick me up and toss me over his shoulder as easily and gracefully as if I were a vintage Hermes scarf. "You're lighter than a young bull calf" he informed me. Sadly this 6'7 Adonis had nary a tooth in his head and was famously tight with money, so romance did not blossom

Have any of you seen the koala challenge? A guy has to sort of lift you over his back, round the front, between his legs and back up again, without touching the ground. Anyhoo, it's a thing and me & my DH managed it during lockdown, which counts as an achievement to us (we are neither of us young, but he happens to be big & me small).

It used to happen to me too, I'm not short though. I hated it and kicked them.

Dh does it now to prove how strong he still is, I resent being used as a weight. I don't need to kick him because he gets a back ache from trying.

I was on holiday many years ago and took a boat trip. I didn’t realise I’d have to step into a rowing boat to reach shore. I hesitated so long (as I am afraid of water) that one of the fishermen got fed up and just picked me up, carried me down the ladder and dumped me in the rowing boat 😂

He was the teeny-tiny one though, not me! I’m 5ft 10” and 10 stones. He was half my height but oh so strong! 💪💪💪💪

Sometimes when I'm feeling lazy I ask people to carry me, but they never do. Sometimes it leads me to question
our friendship. I mean, really friends would carry each other from one pub to the other, or up the stairs to a top floor bar, or from a bench to a duck pond. What is wrong with me?

I had a friend as a teenager/young adult who this used to happen to op. I get what you're talking about.

It used to make her so uncomfortable and feel really vulnerable. Ransom men were in essence treating her like a child. Makes you question why. It's really creepy behaviour in that context rather than friends mucking around.

It would annoy me intensely to be treated like a pet or a small niece. Can’t you carry a sharp pin or something in case of a portage emergency?

I think some of the replies here are actually really rude. This is a thing. It happened to me a lot at school, and less so at university (because I didn’t hang around with jocks).

It was essentially a really tiresome ‘game’ where any one of several rugby types would sneak up on me and throw me over a shoulder and then carry me around the school, sometimes towards the boys toilets with me kicking and screaming. It wasn’t funny. I didn’t enjoy it. And whilst it didn’t ever actually feel threatening (they were ‘friends’ of mine) looking at it from a modern context it was very much not cool. And what’s worse is several teachers witnessed this many times and put it down to ‘high jinks’.

I used to get this a lot. I hated it, it embarrassed me. I’m not a doll.