Hello !
So today, I would like to ask for the help of some ladies in the room 🙂
I would like to draw a serie of comics that would include tall girls problems AND short girls problems. The thing is, as most of you may have noticed, I’m not short. Like, at all. Therefore I have absolutely no idea of what a short girl’s life is about !
THIS IS FOR THE SHORTIES OUT THERE ! (real shorties k ? Only because you’re 5’5″ and wish you were a little bit taller doesn’t make you short) (sorry 😉 ) So again, this is for the shorties in the room and for the shorties friends anyone in the room has ! Pass it on !
So shorties ! I want to hear about your stories ! ANYTHING. The pros and the cons, something funny/sad/mean/weird that happened to you once, something that happens recurrently in shorties lives, nicknames people give/gave you, things short girls have trouble doing, things that are easier for short girls, why is being short the best thing in the world, why is it complicated, school stories, adult stories, ANYTHING about SHORTIES ;D
I will leave it there for a while to get as many stories as possible.
You can post your story as a comment here. It’s also happening on Tall N Curly’s Facebook page, and if you have some story you don’t want to tell in public, send it to me at at tallncurly@rocketmail.com ! 😉
Thank you all for your help and let’s all LAUGH AT OURSELVES TOGETHER !!!! :DDD
I’m smallish; ok, fine. I’m short! At 4’10” and often claiming 5 ft until an actual 5 ft person comes around and points out the obvious.*Sighs* I’m also too small to fit most petite size zeros and wear a size 2.5 in kids shoes. People see my big wavy/kinky fro before they see me. This makes taller people like to pat or pet the top of my head. Sometimes they even rest their elbow up there. I also get ignored at stores when standing at the counter because cashiers think I’m waiting for my parents or my favorite excuse, “I couldn’t see you down there”! By the way I’m 30! And, who are these shortie haters that decided to make counters 4.5 feet tall! On a side note, I love to bake and have a large kitchen with tons of the “upgraded” extra tall cabinets. Bet they’d be great if I could reach them. I’ve actually considered getting a sliding library ladder installed. No joke! I get angry when my fam. visits and puts stuff up there. I tell them that once items go up past 5.5 ft. they are officially in a short person’s black hole and no longer exist to me. So, I apologize to all the people 5.5 and up that I’ve accidentally ignored. I didn’t mean to, but all things vanish at that point. Final thing, I noticed a year or so ago in my sister’s SUV. The seat sensor doesn’t even recognize a person is in the chair when I sit upfront! So, shorties get ignored by cashiers and cars alike. Or maybe the car is a shortie hater too. But, kids shoes are way cheaper than adult ones. So, being short isn’t that bad, especially if you ignore the barbies and blinking lights on those cheaper shoes. *sighs*
Im 17 years old,i have recently cut my hair and go natural because of you. Short and Curly, one of my problem of being short (5.0) is that everytime i have to get cerea.l have to jump in the air and pull it out quickly. It has become such a habit that i decided to make it fun, i act like im a cheerleader and do a split in the air as i jump to get the cereal. (i love your comics btw,you should write a comic book of tallndcurly:)
Because of me or thanks to me ?? :DDD I hope you don’t regret it and are enjoying your new head ! 😀
I work in a big box retail store and I constantly need to use the ladder to get items off the top shelf. Today was unlike any other day I needed the ladder; only today I was on the top step of the ladder and still couldn’t reach the item. I ask for help over the headset. ” I need help getting this ribbon off the top shelf” My manager tells me “Use the ladder.” I tell her “I am, I’m on the top step” She just laughs and tells me she’ll be there in a minute to help.
I’m five foot tall and have been teased (jokingly) all my life for being short. I keep a step stool near my door (so that I can look out the peephole) and whenever I have guests over and they see me go for my step stool it always gets a laugh.
I love your blog! I’m 5′ 2.5″ with bra strap length locs. I am 39 but regularly mistaken for a student at the high school my 15 yr old attends, I am always carded when I buy drinks or cigarettes and strangers especially older people are always touching me because they think I’m not an adult. I usually shop from the junior’s section because the clothes are cut smaller and more suited to my shape than misses or even petites. I have a step stool to reach the upper cabinets and the fan cords. I am always practically jogging to keep up with my boyfriend when we are walking, and I’m the shortest in my family by a good bit. My brothers are younger than me but they call me their little sister because I’m so much shorter. My mom is a tall curly at 5’10” and I was crushed when I realized I wasn’t going to grow anymore. I rarely wear heels and most of my friends refer to me as tiny, or pocket sized, or something height related. I have always been either the or one of the shortest in any group I’ve been a part of.
Always being told I have ‘nice eyes’, when people are blatantly looking down my top…
I can still shop for kids shoes, not so bad when you can get twenty quid off…
Not being spotted behind tables when bending to tie shoelaces. Being mistaken for potted plants when bending down to tie my shoelaces while next to potted plants…
due to hair & height: being told at work I look too young to know anything can he/she/it/them get someone ‘older’ to help them
>>> I’m one of the average ages for my section…
Growing up the smallest and youngest in a house full of boys and learned to bite like an MF…
My best friend is 5’10 and constantly wears heels. She ends up looking like Tyra Banks.
I’m 5’3 and have a pathological fear of heels and constantly end up on my ass…
Frizzy Day = accused of sex hair…
Because my hair makes me look far younger than I am, I can frequently get the folllowing…(not so much when wearing heels go figure)
Random School Boy:
“Hey! Hey!”
Me:
‘Turns around’
Random School Boy:
“My mate likes you”/”can I have your number”/ etc
Me:
>__<
The invariable nicknames. In my case "Hey Geri-Curl, hows it hanging…haw haw haw haw haw" (-_-)
People yanking on my hair to see if the curl will 'bounce back'. I keep wondering if I yank on their nose, will they bounce back'…
Walking with my boyfriend and constantly having to 'jog' to keep pace…very romantic…
I can still shop for kids shoes…
I have been told at work that – quote un-quote- I look too young to ‘know enough’ & Can he/she/them/it get someone older…I’m amongst the average age for my section…
Not being able to be seen behind tables when I bend to tie my shoelaces and (no word of a lie) being mistaken for a potted plant, when bending down to tie my lace and all someone could see was my hair…
I continuously get told I look ‘cute’…
and “OMG…you’re not 24/25/26”
“OMG…you look 16…”
Random school kid on the street:
“hey…hey!”
me:
‘turns around’
Random school kid:
“my mate fancies you” (this in the UK btw)
me:
>__<
The inevitable nicknames in my case: "Geri- Curl, hows it hanging…haw haw haw haw haw" ( -_-)
Lol i think you can make a great comic sketch with this one.
So I’m 4’11 and all of my friends at church love to hold conversations right outside church and they normally go by quick. What I mean by that is we all kinda talk and joke fast because we want to hurry up and get home- 4 hours in a baptist church is just too much some times lol.
Anyways, sometimes I’m soo shirt that when tall guys talk to me literally the conversation goes over my head..
And then they’ll get mad thinking im ignoring them when i just didnt see them talking to me lol its kinda funny really
So they’ll get pissed and yeah … Funny i guess?? Well I dint know thats just a story.
Ok and yep I have wild hair! It does exactly what it wants and when its tame the church ladies will be like “oh your hair looks so good today-always make it look like this” lol
I’m 5’1” 1/2. The 1/2 is very important to me. I spent my entire freshman year being called “adorable” and it started to get on my nerves. I’m always the shortest, and everyone just thinks I’m soooooo cute! Yes well cute is tripping over your jeans because they are like four inches too long (and they STILL cut off circulation in your thighs).
I also have curly hair. I have no idea where it came from. My mom is as white as they come, and my dad is also white, but my mom suspects that someone went to dinner with an Italian/Greek/person of color along the line somewhere.
Anyway, my hair is crazy. It does what it wants. When I was younger, my mom kept it short because I wanted short hair. It was strawberry blonde back then, but it was really cute. I was bald for the first two years of my life, and then I got one strawberry blonde curl on top of my head. When my hair finally came in, I was rocking this blonde clown look. It eventually got dark and I decided that princesses had long straight hair and that’s what I wanted. Throughout my elementary school years, I was in a constant battle with my hair. I wanted it long, but then I wanted to cut it, in hopes that it would mysteriously straighten and I would have a cute little shoulder-length bob. Needless to say, that never happened. (In 4th grade, I distinctly remember looking like a poodle). My mom gave up fighting with it when I was about seven, after she brushed my ears one too many times and I refused to let her touch my hair.
A few years ago, I realised that you just can’t brush my hair. It took a ridiculous amount of time for me to realise this. No one had ever told me just to leave it alone, it was always “brush your hair! brush your hair! Zoe, BRUSH YOUR HAIR!” Yeah well I looked ridiculous with poofy semi-straight “brushed” hair. Then I finally discovered that if I combed it while it was wet, then it would dry naturally into beautiful curls. Now everyone loves my hair and I’m the short girl with curly hair. Not sure how I feel about the short part, but I’m learning to love my hair. 🙂
I am 5ft and I love it! I can move with ease in crowds because I can manuever and squeeze around people.LOL! At the same time, I am afraid of being trampled on if something jumped off and it was time to RUN. I would be stepped on for sure then.I am the smallest of all my friends so when we go out I am automatically in the back seat in the middle. I HATE that seat! I am a window girl myself. I get carded all the time at restaurants. I usually don’t mind but when the 20yr old waiter is scrutinizing my license like they are working a cold case I’m like give me my darn ID.LOL! The last time I straightened my big curly hair, people commented that I looked shorter because my hair wasn’t adding to my height. Being a short curly girl works for me! Love your blog!!
My sister is 5’9″ so I ask her to put things away on the top shelves for me. I’m 5’1″. She told me to get a chair and do it, my response was that she was easier. Her comment, and I smacked her for it was “I hope you marry a man shorter than you so you can’t ever use the top shelf.” I laughed but I love being short. The worse thing is crowds, people just don’t see you. I’m not joking, they look over your head and precede to walk into you.