to be tired of gritting my teeth and smiling about this?

[SnowyIcyFrostyRinglets]

I am totally fed up with people commenting on my height.

It's not acceptable to say to a complete stranger 'ooh, aren't you fat' or 'gosh, aren't you coloured' or 'crkey, aren't you XXXX (insert comment of choice)'

Why, therefore, do people I have never seen before feel it is ok to come up to me and make comments about my height? It's not like I don't know I'm 6' 2". Believe it or not, I have noticed. No, it's not colder up here, yes, I do find it harder to buy clothes, yes, I have heard of Long Tall Sally, no, I haven't always dated men taller than me.

It's not even the little old ladies who want me to get something down off the top shelf in the supermarket that annoy me. At least there is a logic in that. Its the people who just strike up random conversations or make comments. They don't even realise they're being rude.

AIBU to come up with a couple of comebacks and then actually use them?

It's either that or carry a stun gun.

Actually, maybe the question should be AIBU not to use a stun gun.

Something else that really gets my back up is when small people say in a really annoying voice 'oh, I can't do that, I'm too titchy and delicate' my most obvious example is give blood. GRRRRR.

I think you're very lucky to be tall too, but I'm not quite 5'1" and I would, wouldn't I? I do have a friend who's over 6' (I don't think I've ever asked her how tall she actually is) and she occasionally calls me Stumpy and I will call her StringBean, but it would never occur to me to accost a stranger in the street about their height.

YANBU and I think you should perfect your withering glare.

My ex-boss told me recently my new boss had said 'Yeah, I'll take on Snowy's department, but she intimidates me - she's just so BIG'

I couldn't intimidate a hedge, let alone an MD.

And I'm not big, I'm a size 12-14 on a good day and a 14-16 on a bad one!

Sympathies. I have a surname (maiden name, but still use it for work) which it is pretty easy to make fun of.

I have heard ALL the jokes since I was about 5.

And yet people think they are the only ones to have ever come up with the "witty remark". I was really disappointed when someone who has known me well for years, but hadn't heard my maiden name because not a work friend felt compelled to crack the usual joke.

I just do a weary sigh and say yes ha ha if I had £1 for every time I heard that one etc...

I don't often get comments on my height (6 foot) but some silly cow at a mother and toddler group kept on and ON about it one time, asking if I was embarrassed about, etc.... (I actually LOVE being this height)

She went on about it so much I turned to her and said "It's not that freaky, you know!" She laughed nervously and said "Yes, it is..."

She said all this in earshot of other people in the playgroup (I was new there) and several came up to me afterwards to say how shocked they were by how rude she was to me.

Her problem - I'd hate to be 'average'!

never go to south east asia then.

im 5'10/11 size 22 GG bust. i was like a freak in vietnam. people even wanted to take my photo and i was constantly gawped at. i was only there for 10 days and it was hell at the end of it and i just ended up being rude back to people. i had been to other parts of asia but they were big cities more used to seeing big westerners.

Every sympathy to OP I found 10 days of it hell can't imagine a life time of it in your own country.

i get it too and i'm only 5ft 9 a mere shorty compared to you!! so i feel for you. ignore them, they are jealous ..are runway models short??! (the finding trousers to fit though..aint so great)

i've been told many times (by shorty mates)'you're too tall'... really??! no, you are just height-ist..and height challenged!
blessings are..can stuff face over Christmas and it won't show as much as the shorties..can get away with wearing most stuff...(eg don't get swamped in maxi dresses)...can see well at gigs (especially when paired with some platforms or killer heels like i do!!)

I like how op talks about 'little' old ladies and in same post moans when people mention her height!!

( am 5 11 and used to be called 'lurch' in school!)

I was called Sasquatch by everyone due to having size 8 feet and I didn't bat an eyelid tbh. The only thing about it at the time, was buying shoes to fit because in those days, you could rarely walk into a shoe shop and get a size 8 or even a 7. Nowadays, it's not a problem as more women have big feet and are tall.

yep FiveCold...i'm a size 8 shoe and people used to take the p. I tell them, if i had little feet i'd topple over and look pretty ridiculous to boot (excuse pun). Paris Hilton is 9 or 10 in UK size.
I refuse to wear flat cos i'm tall..and it's great to intimidate very short angry little men

Some people are bloody rude and make remarks that can only really be taken as unpleasantness, and others are just brainless and make stupid remarks.

But they all somehow seem to think they are the first person to make an obvious observation about someone. (If you're 7 feet tall or have a surname like Butt then you've heard it all a million times.) I tend to be rude back to the rude people and just try to ignore the dumbasses or give them blank looks.

I have no clue why they all think its okay to make a personal remark of any variety to someone they don't know though. It's one of the big mysteries of life.

I'm not really tall myself by any means - 5' 9 - but I do live in very high heels so some people who don't look at the lethal weapons on my feet do take me for unusually tall. If anyone ever makes comments about my height that I find rude or irritating then I make a big thing of bending my knees and leaning down and asking them to repeat themselves - It really annoys those little Napoleons

will we all shrink and become 'little old ladies' ourselves i wonder??

Point taken, ILoveTiffany (great name by the way)

Feeling much calmer about it all today. I'm still working on my withering stare. I practiced on a tree just now on the way back from the postbox and I'm sure it shivered slightly.

Or was it wind?!

everyone else is up to their knees in snow.....me,i'm only up to my ankles