Back when tinted contacts got really big for the first time, I had a bunch of people ask me I was wearing tinted contacts. No. Never worn contacts ever.
I’m also glad some tall people don’t mind being asked for help. It can be annoying to be short a lot of times. When I first got glasses I was lax about putting them back in their case. Once I couldn’t find them anywhere. My dad had put them on top of the fridge. I can’t see the top of the fridge.
I do actually wear contacts, but they’re not coloured. If I tell someone that, they do a sort of knowing nod, like “ah, they’re coloured really and she’s denying it.” It’s not like very blue eyes is actually all that unusual.
A lot of coat hooks seem to be put up the builders/labourers, almost all men, going oh, this feels about right, and not considering their own height might be higher than a significant number of users of those facilities. It’s the only explanation for why almost all coat hooks on the back of women’s loo doors are just a bit too high for me, at 5’5".
I know?
I’m 5’3", so, yeah.
Luckily, I bought a townhouse with my younger sister, and she’s nearly 5 inches taller than me. Not quite as extreme as our cousins – where one is 5’11" and the other is 5’2" – both girls, well, women. My niece always wanted to be tall, but she’s also only 5’3". Her brother, my nephew, is 6’4". Extremes must run in my family!
Mentioning that bright blue eyes aren’t all that unusual was aimed at the people who act like they must be fake, not at you. I mean, striking enough to comment on, sure, but not so odd as to be obviously fake, surely!
When I moved in here, I had a friend help me do it up. He’s 6’7". He asked me every time where to place coat hooks, shelves etc - I wonder if him being very tall makes him more aware of what height differences mean, Whereas someone 5’11" might just think “hook goes here.”
Didn’t mean for you to take it that way either! We’re good.
Yeah, wasn’t sure you were offended but wanted to make sure!
Reminds me of the old cartoon with two polite people attempting to go through a door: Here, you go ahead, No, you. No, you. No, you. No, you. No, you. (Repeat till death)
Heh heh.
I’m tall enough to get asked to get things off the top shelf at the grocery store. I never minded doing it but these days with the condition of my back and legs I say “I’ll get that off the top shelf for you, and you can get some things from the bottom shelf for me”.
I must look like I know where things are in hospitals. Many times I’ve been stopped and asked how to find everything from obscure telemetry units to the cafeteria. Sometimes I know where these departments are, but I hate disappointing visitors so if I don’t know, I make up directions and they leave happy.
Well, not really.
I once had a counter person at a lunch place tell me I was a dead ringer for a certain “B” actor I’d never heard of. When I looked him up, it turned out that he was known for especially sleazy roles in movies. Gee, thanks.
Alphonse and Gaston?
“Why is the pinky finger on your left hand flat, and a half inch shorter, than your right pinky?”
Why? (Hears circular saw running in background)
As a stranger I’d never ask you about your finger. I assume if we were into the 3rd drink we wouldn’t be strangers anymore and I’d probably ask then. Thank you for avoiding a socially awkward moment for some of us and telling us your story flat out, and it’s a good story too. All of us have grown up and learned hard lessons on the way, yours sounds a lot more painful than most though. But you do have a good story to tell when people do ask.
Nothing about me personally, I’m a walking display of “average”.
My truck is a different story though. I actually use it for stuff and it has everything from auxiliary tanks to a bed-mounted crane. When opened up and using the stuff it often interests other guys enough that they come over to ask about it. The only woman who’s ever shown interest was at the boat ramp. I was using the remote-controlled rear winch to haul a big boat on the trailer and she got curious. She was perplexed why I was standing so far to the side – and I showed her my misaligned teeth from the last time I was too close to a winch.
This happens a lot to my spouse who drives a replica 550 Porsche, he gets followed, paced, waved at and on occasion has strangers follow him home. Once he came out of the beer store and there was a cop waiting for him all excited and full of questions. He has taken it on the track, but the fool can’t take it easy so yeah high maintenance.
Me? I get random elderly women in the grocery store striking up conversations and sometimes getting personal. Makes me sad for missing my folks so I have a tender spot for those lonely gals. I must remind them of a Daughter I think.
Just like many of the others here, my ethnicity is hard for people to place so I usually get questions about this (my mom’s Jamaican and my dad English, and I’m on the lighter side of mixed race).
And I’m tall at 6’3, so for sure if I’ve been seated and then I stand up they’ll be some comment about how tall I am.
Apart from that, the next thing is to compliment my long eyelashes… Yeah not particularly the compliment I’d like as a man.
A friend of mine works with graphite. No matter how well he cleans up after work, he looks like he’s wearing eyeliner. It’s really creepy/wacky/strange.
For me it’s my Georgia accent. I’ve lived in south Florida over 30 years but the accent will not go away.
Once I hit my 60s this wasn’t so much of a problem but throughout my life starting in my early teens I was always assumed to be a tough guy or a boxer or a mobster. I did grow up in kind of a rough surroundings but my entire life I lived a very conventional conservative life. I would try different hairstyles, wearing glasses they didn’t do anything, everything I could think of to try to shake that look nothing seemed to work. I finally outgrew it.
I have been using a cane for a year or so after having one knee replaced. Still haven’t done the second knee and a cane is a great aid in making sure I don’t twist the bad knee and stumble. I don’t hobble along and walk, I think, rather stylishly. The cane is gold anodized aluminum with a carved fish scale pattern and looks like real gold. I have had 3 woman comment how nice it looks. Only one was in an electric scooter 
So I’ve got that going for me.