Short people problems!

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Why oh why do almost every clothes shop put short length jeans on the top shelf/hangers? Where's the sense in that?!

What other short people problems really annoy you?

Oh I hear you short sister!

Especially the size 3 shoes on the top shelf - why? why do that???

and dropping things on your head while trying to get them off super market selves

and not reaching the peddles in cars unless your nose is on the windscreen

and your children being taller than you at 12! 12 ffs

and stupidly buying a kingsized duvet - why the fuck did I do that? I can't shake the fucker

Yes to all of these! Especially EatShitDerek with swinging legs when sat down!

All trousers are too long.
Shops assume that short women are always very slim.
Elbows in my face in busy places!

This is all so true!! Especially the dangly legs, myself and a friend (also vertically challenged!!) went outfit lunch and the only seats left were the high benches - we must have looked a right sight trying to get on/off them!

lol and yes either leg swinging like a 6 year old or sitting so far forward you fall off - very professional

Wibblywobbly,I sympathise
I started a thread about the problems of finding Tall clothes.
It's no fun being at either end of the spectrum.

Yes to short women looking pregnant all over! I also have v short arms and in later stages of pregnancy had to stand sideways on to the sink to wash up etc as I couldn't reach the taps/basin otherwise!

I also stack up shopping in a small trolley rather than suffer the indignity of diving into a large one

I couldn't use the very lovely baby sling I got either - because it meant babies head was the same hight as the kitchen work tops - which proved unfortunate for baby

My DH complains every time he gets into my car, or I've been driving his, as he can't get his looooooong legs in. He keeps telling me to push the seat back once I've got out.

Start putting the toilet seat down then you twat and I'll think about it!

Oh and YY to the boob hitting the car horn every time I get out the car - my baps are pretty big in comparison to my height.

Oh and I LOVE it when trousers only come in 'regular' or 'long'. And if they do come in 'short' they're still too bloody long.

Yes to the swinging legs, especially at work.

Luckily by good planning DH is short too (our poor children!) so our house is set up round us. Hooks, mirrors, cupboards, shower all at sensible heights. DH does lightbulbs as designated Tallest Person... he is 5'6"!

I am quite enjoying having children so that I can pretend our kitchen step stool is for their benefit!

ghosty yes, we recently got a kingsize bed too - and I physically can't put the duvet inside the cover, or shake it out. Nearly burst into tears when DH was on a late shift and I needed to put new sheets on the bed, I ended up just sleeping in my dressing gown and slippers cos I couldn't put the cover on!

Wannabe we deliberately leave the driving seat after we've adjusted it. It's a reminder to the other person to adjust the mirrors.

DH likes to hide things from me. He just puts them above my eye level. You know like you do with small children

My shoes live on the top shelf in the wardrobes stacked on top of each other in their boxes. DH's are on the bottom. It kind of makes sense because I have more and there's more room up there.

DH sold this plan to me by buying me a folding set of steps. But having them leaned against the wall annoyed his aesthetics so he hid them away on a sturdy hook on the back of the wardrobe door.

Great, except they were too high and heavy for me to lift down. He had no problem because though he's not particularly tall, he has enormous upper body strength - think of an orang utan.

So I used a broom handle to dislodge the boxes and then loads of shoes fell on my head, plus I couldn't put them back.

After some words about this, the shoes stay up and the stepladder stays down.

Trolleys, yes, I always feel like i'm going to go in head first with just my legs in the air.

We went to the cinema last week, choice of seats bad at half-term, I got stuck behind a child in one of the seat boosters and I couldn't see over or past him. Ended up having to move.

I remember as a teenager people reaching over my head in shops getting served. Manners haven't improved in that respect but I am now a lot more vocal.

Red our postman does that - props parcels on a wall light over our door. Takes us days to spot them. Last time it was a sodding light bulb, which thankfully did survive the fall when I eventually noticed it and tried to hoik it down.

I also hate big shopping trolleys and even the smaller big ones (as opposed to the very shallow, small shop ones) were too deep for me when pregnant.

Chairs. I have now, in my 40s, decided bugger it, and I frequently take off my shoes in long meetings and sit crossed legged if I can rather than get swollen feet from them dangling. Don't care if it looks unprofessional, so do dangling feet.

Too high mirrors or hooks in bathrooms/loos also get me. When we had our bathroom done, we had to get the fitter to lower the mirrored cabinet as I could only see the very top of my head in it.

Also, taller mums just not realising that you can't sling your baby and get on with stuff as there simply isn't room for the baby to fit on your torso and, even if you do, and end up walking around with your nose in the air because you can't put your chin down, you can't reach around baby for things anyway and have to do the pregnancy crab moves all over again.

I'm glad its not just me with the king duvet...

I'm a tall person and I noticed the shoe display thing the other day. I knew that this would be what this thread was about. I could barely reach the top shelf where all the size 3s were and I'm 5'7". I wish I'd thought to say something to the assistant filling the shelves.

I am often asked to help get things off high shelves in supermarkets, and I am always happy to do so.

at all the inventive window opening with potato mashers.

DH (6'3") is well trained in offering to help people in shops etc. with my only being 5'

Getting an office chair to fit was a nightmare, first of the argument discussion with the work OT that it was too big, wouldn't believe me until she saw for herself. Seat depth far too deep so cuts into the back of my knees. Full of they are designed to fit all adults - erm well I'm not technically adult height.

Designed our kitchens with no wall cupboards - what's the point!

Sofa shopping to accommodate both of our heights - we have to compromise.

Often dining tables are too high feel like you can just shovel your food into your mouth almost horizontal.

Lack of choice in casual clothes, all the petite stuff seems to be work or going out gear

Short yet broad feet, not many places actually start extra wide shoes from a size 3.

Yes I hear you. Having to shorten my jeans, removing at least 3/4 inches of material, climbing on supermarket shelves, to reach the top item

Youngest DC is 12 and I am now the shortest person in the household! Occasionally DS, asks me reach things for him and I roll my eyes extensively while he remembers that he is about a foot taller than me now!

My pet hate is crowded tubes, I can't comfortably hold the rails near the ceiling and end up looking into the armpit of anyone who can.

And gaggles of tall visiting students that seem to be completely unaware of the short person trying to get past them!

Apparently the reason why Jack Reacher is called that is because the author, Jim Grant, is also very tall and his wife nicknamed him that because he was always being asked to reach for things off the top shelf by midgets in Sainsbury's.

Oh yeah baby in sling, had hugely tall babies - just didn't work at all!

Hand dryers in public toilets - why, why, why so high that you have to lift your hands so far up to reach that the water trickles down your arms???

Microwave at work on top of the filing cabinet - can barely reach/see! Top oven in most kitchens, a bit high for safety reasons tbh.

I am 5ft 3inch, but its considered short, I think I am shrinking with old age!