:dubious: You enjoy getting the corner of a drawer jammed in your nuts?
All I’m sayin’ is, just because YOU don’t, don’t assume…
n/m I’m not funny today.
Hong Kong I can understand maybe, but Montreal?
Chevy Malibu. One of my exes is 6’8", and it didn’t occur to me to wonder why he got a new one every five years or so, always the same thing…a Chevy Malibu…until I realized that it may be the only car he’s ever been COMFORTABLE in. And drives to-from work were often an hour or more each way, so it was pretty important.
But I’d suggest checking one out, if you really are looking for a normal kind of car with decent mileage that actually fits 
Edit…I put Cavalier instead of Malibu. While i’m still not sure which one it was I suspect it was Malibu.
Well…WE can spot you in the crowd quite easily as well.
Conversely, YOU can’t “hide in plain sight” in a crowd like us short people.
[Nor do those in crowds repeatedly elbow you in the face.:eek::mad:]
—G!
It’s better to have loved a short girl
Then to have never loved a tall
Automakers: seat cushions are too $%^& short on imported [Asian] luxury SUV’s. If 2/3 of my thigh extends beyond the seat cushion, it is not comfy, ok? My MGB had better seats than your $70k Landcrusher, and Pathrunner. Cataract: this means you, too. Back to my pickup.
Taxi drivers: you are 5’6". You do not need your seat pushed all the way back in your Crown Vic.
Amusement parks: stop building rides for the 80 percentile and spend the extra for the 90th percentile.
Stair treads: already mentioned.
Rental Cars: already mentioned.
Picture hanging: it is the correct height for me, it is my house and they are my art works and I like to see them at my eye level.
Kitchen counter height is measured by gnomes: I don’t want to spend two hours cooking hunched over like Quasimodo.
Kitchen cabinets: the bottom drawer is for stuff I use at Thanksgiving and Christmas, the top shelf is for the stuff that is use every week.
Refrigerators: back of the “milk shelf” is for stuff that I use once a month.
Airline interior designers: I will place each of your knees in a tourniquet for 6 hours so you can experience the pain of flying coach from LAX to LGA.
Airline gate agents: I appreciate that you and Tiff went through training together, but since she is nonrev dead-heading and I am a paying customer, who do you think is most appropriate to be in 9C?
Lands End, Dillard’s and Nordstrom: thank you.
Short guys: no, I didn’t play professionally. I couldn’t go to my right. Yes, I will play on the company team. You buy the uniform, size XL/XT. Call me when it comes in.
Work desks: nothing like starting the work day off by self imposed contusions on your knees when you roll up to your desk in the morning. This weekend I am bringing in cinder blocks to raise my desk. You can either let me do this or I will call HR and explain OSHA rules to them, your choice.
Wedding/banquet planners: please put me at a table where my back is NOT to an aisle since my chair will have to be pulled out all of the time and I don’t want the waiters or your tipsy Aunt Mildred falling over me for three hours.
Tall women: wear heels and stand tall. You have no idea how nice it is to look a woman in the eye while talking to you when we are standing in line for a movie.
Short women: you can wear heels with platforms, but you will be 10 inches shorter than me rather than 11 inches shorter than me. Your choice–and you know we were going to a picnic, right?
I am not a little old lady!
…Oh.
Yeah :smack: I guess I am.
Thanks.
I don’t feel the disparity between heights as far as connecting with people. When I’m talking with somebody we’re both looking at each other and our gazes meet somewhere in the middle, so it works. And as a date I would be the one going OMGawd! My head could fit in your armpit!
Tallness is relative though. I’m average height and have a lot of the mentioned benefits of tallness when I’m around relatively short people.
Did anyone besides me misread Long Elegant Legs as Long Elephant Legs?
I am not all that tall (6’0") but I can relate to some of the things said. I have (relatively) short legs, short arms and I find standard counter heights too short.
Washing dishes in the kitchen sink gives me a backache because it sits about 3 inches too low.
Heya, freaks. What do you drive?
I’m car shopping, and I want a small car with good gas mileage, that I can reasonably fit in. It doesn’t have to be super comfortable and roomy, since I rarely spend more than 30 minutes in the car, and only sometimes 2 hours or so.
I probably should go try to sit in some cars before I count my chickens, but poking around at car reviews it looks like the Kia Souland Ford Fiesta might actually be reasonable options.
I also want to keep it under $15k.
I thought I saw somebody reccommend a compact car for tall people in this thread, but I can’t find the post…maybe it was somewhere else.
It’s not much to look at, but the 30mpg Scion XB has great headroom. I wish I could move the seat a few more inches back, but the headroom is really nice.
My sister in law and her husband just built a new, custom home. Half the counters in the kitchen are six inches higher, including the section with the sink. She’s an average 5’ 4" and he’s 12" taller. He’s the guy who does clean up in their home and their children all got the tall gene so the tall sink works for the kids too. The ceilings in the main level are 10’ and in the basement they have 9’.
So what does this average height person know? homes are not built with tall people in mind. They were happy to have a home he was finally comfortable in.
We know that we will be off if you measure your liquid from a cup on the counter rather than raise it up. (I guess the difference is smaller for shorter people.)
I’m 6’ 5" and when my 6’ 7" dad died I asked the funeral director a question that I assumed would also arise for my wife one day: Will we need to order a non-standard casket? Answer: “No, we have ways of working that out.” I didn’t ask.
Yes. I had to reread it three times! I thought, “Why Elephant? They’re not tall…”
Something that tall people may not want to know (hint - it may explain most of the difference in life expectancy between men and women).
A adult elephant is something like thirteen feet in height
If that’s not tall to you, I bet you have terrible trouble buying trousers. 
I don’t know how tall you are, but I know a woman who is 6’5". She hates it when people ask her how tall she is and she ducks the question* - luckily I never made the mistake of asking her before I found out that it bugs her. However, I did google her once and found her height on a list of tall women.
Anyways, regarding good cars that are small and fuel efficient for tall people - she currently drives a Nissan Versa and prior to that she drove a Honda Fit (both are subcompact cars). She said that both of them have good legroom and headroom for her, and they get pretty good gas mileage and they both have a good amount of cargo room for a small car (especially the Fit).
*On edit: no pun intended
I’ve heard the same about the Nissan cube. Great legroom and the seat heigh is better for getting in and out. Also, strangely, the VW bug.
Surprised at the number of sub-compacts that supposedly fit tall people! I guess when you build in a cube shape and ditch the trunk space, that leaves a lot of room for legs and heads.