Maybe you are a Short Walker, and don’t even realize it! Yes, us normal walkers have a name for your type. 
I’m 6’ but have the leg length of a 5’7" person; I’ve been told I’m built a bit like an orangutan.
This is a bit misleading because you do not, I assume, march with people as you move down a sidewalk. You could alter your speed by retaining your normal (longer) stride and taking fewer of them per minute/hour. It is easy to adjust one’s speed without changing stride.
But marching, even in a band situation is a very different thing. Everyone picking up their left foot at precisely the same time, taking the identical length of stride, and placing the foot back -in line with everyone else- and at the very same identical instant is a vital part of the process. Once it is mastered it can actually be dangerous. That is why soldiers are trained to “break step” over bridges because the percussive impact of many strong men carrying heavy packs impacting their feet at the same time can be destructive for the bridge (it also has to do with harmonic resonances I am told - something to do with matching the bridge’s frequency).
When my kid was in marching band several years ago he was given a specific distance each stride should be down to a quarter of an inch. We drew chalk lines on first the driveway, and eventually the sidewalk at that interval so him and the other neighborhood band geeks could practice “walking in a straight line” as Bill Murray famously put it. They would hold their imaginary instruments with perfect posture and walk without looking down at their feet. Most kids got it within a week or two (my kid could only do it walking in straight lines and never did march with the band- he had to learn to play some drum instrument on the sidelines).
You don’t have an extra set of smaller nipples below the normal ones (kind of like a dogs) do you? I had an uncle who was a little over six feet tall (6’-1 3/4") who wore the same size pants I did when I was a teenager (5’-7"), but he had that other distinguishing feature and so did at least one of his sons (the other one may or may not have).
(Actually, I know you are not my cousin because they are both very vocal, heavily fire-breathing Republicans of the insane type. We can barely exchange greetings without an argument breaking out.)
Ha! I do not have any such unusual features…
So you never played baseball for West Virginia University either?
The uncle (by marriage I assure you!) had three sets of nipples down his chest/abdomen, each getting smaller and less defined. The younger son allowed (at his father’s funeral) that he had one small extra nipple that looked like a mole, and a very small dot that corresponded in location on the opposite side of his chest that was not noticeable unless you expressly looked for it. So it is a family trait. The older son has not spoken to me since I opined (at the same funeral) that I believed Obama was neither Kenyan nor Muslim. When I suggested that allowing people who had spent their whole lives in the United States, who did not even know themselves that they were not born here, who have been paying taxes and contributing to society – some even serving in the military – should be granted citizenship he had to be restrained. So the number and condition of his nipples remains a mystery.
Their dad sure could tell tall tails though. Once he was hunting on a humid day and he shot a deer that was so far away the bullet got rusty after it left the barrel and left rust on the pelt as it entered the animal. Another time he shot game that was so far away that the jeep ran out of gas on the way to retrieve it. So he was a pretty good shot for a guy who could never find the eggs or the milk when he opened the fridge. I apologize for the hijack and return your original thread.
Sure - never marched in the military or band. But I do golf and learned to walk with 3’ strides. Helpful when stepping off yardages. And when younger, walking in downtown Chicago, I was always the faster walker on the sidewalk. But when walking with someone else, it is n effort to walk at whatever pace they do. Heck, you don’t even have to shorten your stride - just you pace.
Far more of an issue is bending down to hear shorter folk.
Well, you see, the white guy likes Jazz, but the black guy like “white music”! It’s the juxtaposition that makes it’s hilarious! (I really do like the show, but this is one of those things that slightly annoys me.)
I thought it was Blues?
I think you’re correct. It’s every other show/movie that has a white guy that likes Jazz (and tries to convince his black friend of how good it is.)
I have read most of the books and watched the Amazon film which IMHO is much better than the Tom Cruise version.
I have no knowledge of Travis McGee - I compare Reacher to The Lone Ranger riding around on his white horse rescuing maidens in distress and sorting out the bad guys in the black hats.
Season 2, 1st 3 episodes is now available. They’ll be dropping 1 per Friday going forward apparently.
I watched episode 1 last night. I can’t remember the details of the plot of the book on which this season is based, but that’s okay.
If you’re interested, the book is Bad Luck and Trouble.
Robert Patrick not getting the Sarah Conner reference was a nice inside joke. 
Man, the guy playing Reacher can’t act, but everyone else can (I love that one of the lead actors was 2008 Miss Denmark).
The story is okay enough so far.
Actually he’s a lot better in this than in his DC work. He was brutal in Titans and something else I saw him in.
I think he’s terrific for the character. The book Reacher is weird and almost robotic in the same way he is.
I enjoyed the books (up to the most recent.) And I think I enjoyed S1, just because it was so much closer to the books than the mini-Reacher films (tho the films were enjoyable in their own right.)
But the series just seems so over-the-top. I know the books were totally unbelievable, but for whatever reason they seem even moreso on TV. I mean, when they build up such a tremendous body count - with no repercussions. And the bad guys with near infinite resources.
I’m not sure I could tell the other folk had acting chops, as they were eclipsed by the main characters lack thereof.
Guilty fun, but nothing more.
Boy, that was some amazing fresh concrete on that building site, no? And I loved it when the one guy had a concrete block hurled against his head, and he just popped right up! 
Reacher had his elven shoes on as well.
In fact - what was the point of his walking through the concrete? I had assumed it was intended as misdirection, and that he would come up behind the guy. But instead, when the guy got there, he could still see Reacher climbing the structure.
It is weird how the show - like the movies - won’t accept that Reacher does not like to drive.
Nice cameo in episode 4.
I yelled at the screen when the episode ended though - it seemed way too short!