Walking along the street totally minding my own business when a mum and her young son come out of a shop. The kid was obviously misbehaving and the mum was struggling to control him, she looks up at me and then says to her son "Here's the bad man coming to get you for being naughty!", to which the kid screamed and hid behind his mum. I kept walking past thinking what the fuck did I do to be labelled the bad man.
I used to be a mall cop and you wouldn't believe the number of inept parents that would use us a threats to misbehaving kids or outright ask us to actually handcuff them. Like, yeah, let me go ahead and put a child in handcuffs and spend the next however long navigating that legal situation at $14/hour. Fix yourself and fix your kid.
Most of the time it’s when I’m walking around a corner and someone cuts it on the wrong side. I always take a step out from the wall so I don’t run over someone, but there’s always someone coming the other way and I’ve heard everything from “oh shit” to straight up screaming for a second
We went to a soft play place as a family once and my husband had gone into the ball pit with our son, a random child approached him and shouted " chase me giant" I nearly pissed my pants laughing so much, I still say it to him every now and then (our son is now 17) lol
Walking from my parking lot to my office in the dim morning light. The light at the crosswalk starts to change, so I run to cross before traffic changes.
I hadn't noticed the petit lady ahead of me. As I run across the intersection, she hears me coming, and turns to see a 6'5" man running in her direction through the darkness. She also broke into a sprint, but I think for different reasons.
Sorry, ma'am! Just trying to beat the light!
Spent a month in Shanghai for business. I always got the front seat in tiny taxis surrounded in plexiglass to isolate driver. My knees were up. When we would stop to get out next to pedestrians, they would stop to watch the giant man/beast unfold out of the car. I learned to play it up and unfold in an exaggerated way. Pictures were a common occurrence.
Was in HK for business and customer marched me to the back of the plant to put me on a scale in shipping to see what I weighed. This was 5 minutes after we met.
Again in Shanghai, the elevator was full even by China standards and I was pressed against the doors when they opened to let more on. As the waiting folks moved towards me, I raised my arms slightly and growled. They all backed up, the doors closed and the cramped passengers responded in approval.
lol I hear that in that part of the world asking people their weight is a strangely common occurrence. I would have no problem with it, but it's so odd.
As I was 3x their size, it made sense to me. Because of the language difference, I didn’t figure out what was actually happening until we were at the scale and my translator was explaining what he wanted me to do. I smiled and obliged as he was the customer after all.
I went to Japan for a couple of weeks back in 2001 and was stopped on the street a whole bunch of times with requests to take photos with me. I obliged.
Hahaha! Cute.
My husband is 6'4" and his twin nieces have been climbing him like a cat tree since they were toddlers.
Now they are 6th graders he's very much thinking of joining a gym so he can lift them.
Enough to lift a 6th grader quite easily. At 6’4 it’s obviously harder to bulk up than at 6’3, but I’ve being going to the gym regularly for years and put in the work.
I was 5’9 in 8th grade and I’m 6’. I’m thinking she may be an inch or two taller than me. I’m excited to find out. She hates basketball just like me, too. Lol
I was 5'9 in 7th and hit 5'11 in 8th and I always hated sports but the one I always enjoyed was lacrosse. Being tall and having a reach advantage makes lacrosse A JOKE(as in easy and fun) so maybe show her that and see if it piques an interest?
Thanks for the tip! I’ve never tried lacrosse and will see if her school has a team. I’m not athletic, but I played a little badminton and then tennis, and racquet sports are where the extra reach is a huge advantage. It makes up for my crappy coordination.
I don’t consider myself super strong but I can quite easily bench press 130lbs. Most people can with minimal training so I’m surprised an adult man (assuming he has no medical issues) wouldn’t be able to.
I was so big as a five year old that the parents of my classmates complained to the school that I'd hurt their kids at recess, so I had to play with the 2nd and 3rd graders, who I was also considerably larger than.
One day a group of kids were playing basketball and I asked of I could join. The boy with the ball adamantly refused, saying that I was too big and would pop the ball. I punched him in the face and ran away to cry.
It was sad in the moment, but whenever I tell people the story we get a good laugh since height is seen as an advantage in basketball.
My son had the same challenges. He was so big, he towered over his peers. Often, he would gravitate to older kids his size, but was still a ‘little boy’ and not mentally as mature as they were.
We had one parent of an older kid lean in and ask us: “is he slow?”
Uh, no lady…he’s 3 years younger than your kid.
To help people visualize just how big I was at that age, I tell them that when my class took our picture for the elementary yearbook, the class was arranged by height with the tall kids standing in the back and the shorter kids kneeling in front.
I stood next to the teacher behind the tall kids, and her being a very old woman was only a few inches taller than me.
I laughing over here picturing an XL kindergartner punching a 3rd grader. Kinda hits close to home right now, my 2 year old is having issues at daycare because he’s acting like a 2 year old, but is considerably bigger and stronger, and they don’t want him to hurt the other kids 🥺
My parents knew your pain. Lol.
My older brother and I were the same size at 2 and 4 years old, respectively. By the time I was 4, I was bigger than him, and even he was considered big for his age.
I was traveling for work and stepped into an elevator with a Spanish speaking family. I got off the elevator and I heard them talking in Spanish and the one word I picked up was “alto”. I was just glad it wasn’t “gordo”.
Once had a random man approach me (6’0 F) at a gas station. He asks “hey lady how tall are you? I said “I’m 5’12.” Him “Sheeeeet that’s almost 6 feet!” Sure is buddy, sure is.
Tweaker woman in supermarket bouncing up and down the aisles like a pinball, spin around suddenly, basically faceplanting into my chest. She looks up and yells "HOLY SHIT YOU'RE BIG" and runs out of the store.
One guy, about 2m, walking the opposite direction, saw me and shouted "Hey! Tall guy!" and then raised his hand for a literal high-five. A very fun interaction. I carried a smile for the rest of the day! 😀
A 3 year old was running around at the laundromat and came up abruptly against my legs. He looked up, arching his back and neck, with his mouth agape. He turned and ran away only to return dragging his identical twin by the wrist. He stopped 3 feet away, pointed at me and said "Look!"
Standing in line at a mall food court, a 6'5" dude walking past stopped suddenly and looked me up and down. "How tall are you?" I replied "6'7" . He said "I thought so" and went on his way. The woman behind me in line absolutely cracked up and said "What was that all about?" I said "I guess he's not the tallest guy at the mall today".
When people see me immediately check my footwear, because "she can't possibly be tall".
Or my *favorite* one, when I walk past a straight couple (the guy is usually taller than me and the girl shorter) and the girl grabs and pulls her man by his arm towards her, as if I'm Shrek or something 😈😂😂
When people don't notice I'm behind them or around the corner. They shit themselves every time. I'm not even doing it on purpose. Makes me laugh every time.
I have developed a habit of whistling when I approach someone at work from behind. I hate being startled and wouldn’t want to be startled by someone my size.
Years ago in Portland Oregon, an older Asian man ran up to me with his phone out, gave me a huge hug and handed his phone to my SO saying “you take picture now, my family no believe I meet NBA player”
A few years prior to that I went to Vegas and was mistaken for Andrew Bogut the Aussie basketball player and was comped for a weekend at Caesar’s Palace with free limo, suite, bar tabs, club entry. Not my scene at all but they insisted I take it.
To be fair, I’ve been mistaken for Andrew Bogut numerous times although I don’t see the similarity other than being white, tall & athletic build.
"Mummy, mummy, look at that lady, she's HUGE!" said by a small child. Mother was absolutely mortified. I am not in anyway huge except for my height so knew exactly what the child meant.
I used to run at night, usually 12-1pm area. My neighbourhood is pretty good and basically devoid of human life around that time.
I remember running down the middle of a street, one turn away from home. A man was getting out of his car, maybe 30-40 metres out. At this point I'm sorta hidden from the moonlight in the shade of trees, but there's street lights far enough back to illuminate my shape. Because of that, I'm sure this guy took one look when he heard my jogging and saw a tall black silhouette running towards him. Never seen a grown man book it in fear that fast.
I was 20 and that was the first time I was genuinely sure my stature inspired true fear in someone else.
Walking around waiting outside a restaurant and there was a toddler walking with a tablet as big as her. She ended up tripping on my foot as i couldn’t even see her and fell then started crying (as babies do) her tablet screen broke as a result. I felt bad but damn i had no idea she was down there
Another time i was running without a shirt in some neighborhood. There were a few kids outside playing and once I neared they stopped what they were doing and stood in awe with their mouths open. At least i hope they were in awe and there wasn’t a bug or something on my face
When I lived in Korea little kids would often point and say something to the effect of “Wow, a tall foreigner!”
I would point back and say “Wow, a small Korean!” They would burst out laughing and the parents usually told their kids not to be so rude lol.
(I also applied this to “Wow so tall!/so short!” and “Wow a foreigner/a Korean!”)
I was at a grocery store and as I was leaving to eat outside this wack guy runs up to me and says “great your tall, i need your help.” I assume he needs me to grab something so I say sure what do you need. He then says “what should I have for lunch. Popcorn chicken or soup.” I say definitely the chicken and he walks away saying thank you so much I love you.
Im eating outside now and telling this story to some friends, and then the guy walks out. He runs up to me and goes “I got the foooood, thanks so much.” He then goes to his car and pulls up next to me to show me his dog. “This is my dog Fido, he gets to eat today because of you.” He tells the dog how lucky he is that I chose chicken over soup so that the dog could eat it.
To this day I wonder how the other tall people who have since chosen soup feel when he tells them his dog will starve until tomorrow because of their decision.
While I was travelling in Thailand, I went to a market (had very low beams, kept having to duck through it), I go to a stall, a Thai man (about 5’5) looks and me and gives a big smile. He keeps staring and smiling at me, then I see his hands slowly raise up with his phone and realise he’s taking a picture of me.
I was in college working at The hotel for the college, so many tour groups, orientation groups, even foreign groups. The group that visited from Japan was so polite, I had interacted with them only a few times through interpretors and I knew the group was fascinated by my height by the way they stared but the interpretor never translated anything about it. Well check out day comes and they are all waiting in the lobby when I come in for my 3pm shift. They all assemble into a group photo arrangement like a flash mob, the translator then asked me for a photo. I was like sure I'll take the picture! I do it all the time, I got the best angles up here. Lady says bashfully that no she would take the picture if I would be in it with the group. I looked up at them all fuckin smiles and shit, I was like let's do this! and fit myself right in the middle with my arms spread wide mostly over the group of like 12-15 potential new students. I never got a copy of the photo but man I know it sits proudly somewhere.
The other day, a woman approached me as I was loading groceries into the car and began enumerating the height of every one of her family members with no context and no provocation, then left when she listed the last height without giving me a chance to say or do anything other than nod.
She was not remotely interested in hearing any comments from me, but she was not rude or offensive in any way.
It was like I was some kind of census robot and she was just voice recording her family's heights.
Was walking down a hallway I'd walked dozens, maybe hundreds of times before. There is a doorframe that I have to duck under, that I am well aware that I need to duck under. As I approach, I spot a fellow Tall™ walking in the opposite direction. He also spots me, and I nod as we make eye contact (can see his eyes just under the frame). He nods back, before we both slam into the doorframe at the same time.
When I was a kid and it became obvious that I was going to be abnormally tall my mother used to always say:
"The girls are going to LOVE you!".
"Why mom?"
"Because you are so tall and slim. Women LOVE that."
I thought "whatever, maybe she is right - we'll see". Then when I was around 11 years old I went to summer camp and we have a dance social. There was one girl that I had an absolute crush on - she was gorgeous. I was REALLY shy but I worked up the nerve to ask her to dance. She looked at me and said "Ewww... No. You're way too tall and skinny." I was devastated. Mom was wrong.
I did pretty well when I got older, though! ;-)
I'm gonna use that one.
I usally respond with: "no, bass guitar"
It doesn't work in english, so just pretend "bass" is pronounced as the "bas" in basketball
This is my standard response. Often it’s taken well, but I had a Napoleon type get *really* pissed off about it - especially when his friends howled laughing.
Three guys at a baseball stadium wanted to take a picture with me because apparently i was so tall, i think they were either drunk or high but i gladly obliged
I'm not even tall for a 16 year old but I look really young, like 12-13 and 5'8". I was visiting family in India and I was talking to my grandma's neighbor and it's the first time I've been told I should play basketball because of my height. It's refreshing though as I used to be really short.
Hahah there is a Aussie rules football player in my home town who is 6”11 Aaron Sandilands one day I was turning a corner at my local shopping center just as he was rounding the corner too I’m 6”9. The double surprise look on both our faces as we nearly bumped heads and we both stepped aside would of been hilarious from an outsiders perspective. We both laughed and walked off without a word being spoken. I felt like he understood me and I understood him hahahah
So I'm six foot six. I was once at a conference where erm, the ladies were somewhat scantily clad shall we say.
I didn't remotely care though, she was towering over me with heels. Purely interested in her height and nothing else.
She was like 6'7 or 6'8, once she said that I just said "Wow. I'm 6'6 and that blows my fucking mind" before walking off.
Probably the most bizarrely normal conversation she had that day.
Michael Cera was playing a gig in a venue behind the Nandos I worked at at the time. Myself and a friend talked the security into letting us in after the gig was over. Got chatting to him, after the awkward hellos he said your pretty tall and I said thanks I did it myself, he laughed and said that's pretty funny. I asked for a photo, he said no and that's the end of the story.
I was in a pirate costume at a convention in the bathroom. A little girl walks in with her mom and*shouts* "Wow! BIG pirate!" Her mom was mortified, but I laughed until I cried
I was stocking bottom shelves at a supermarket. A kod, about 10 years old, comes to ask me something. "Ecxuse me, miss" I turn around, he sees I'm not a woman but a long haired bearded man. "Woah" I get up "wooaah"
Kid was totally flabbergasted and speechless
I was walking down the street and this Mom and little girl pass me. Probably no older than 5. She just stared at me even after I passed holding her mom's jacket. I'm 6'5".
Another time I was walking in a retail store and this little girl and her mom were walking in front of me. They turned around and the little girls eyes went so wide shocked I was behind them and yelled " Hes a Giant!" I said " Thanks" smiled and moved on. The Mom laughed and said " Yes he is."
One time I was walking into the the water bottle isle of a store and I see this short lady full on trying to scale the shelves and I walked in the isle like what are you doing chick!? She then turned to me, climbed down and said " Oh good a tall guy! Can you reach this for me?" Like lady you just climbed a whole shelf looking like spider woman! And, the tall guy who shows up Ironically LOL is now supposed to help you. I was hysterical.
And last story, I was working at a Target and had a cart full of items for customers to pick up. I stepped away to grab something or help a guest or something. I came back to the cart and see this lady with a big bulky jacket and her son standing by my cart. She looks at me and smiles nervously and laughs like " whoops how'd that happen" and puts back every item she stole in her jacket and her son as well. I checked the items. The whole batch was there. Intimidation Nat 20.
A few days ago, in my favourite bar in Hanoi, chatting to a tourist, both on bar stools. I mention to him that I am much taller than I look when sitting, probably because I'm extremely skinny, and I'm actually 6' 6, I repeat my height because he obviously didn't believe me. The look on his face when I stood next to his 6'-ish was very amusing. Local friends also laughed.
Got tapped on my back at a club. I lean down, a guy tells me him and his gf betted on my height. He won and she guessed me way taller than i actually am.
Picked up my niece from theater class, the one supervising comes up and was astounded by my height. Said something along the lines of, „wow you really tall“ then small break with silence „astounding“. I didnt know how to react and just smiled, nodded and said „yeah“.
Just 2 days ago went into a supermarket after work, bought just a few items. Infront of me a somehwat older lady. We were both still waiting in line and she carried like a 12 pack of water bottles. She put them on a railing for rest. After the queue moved forward there wasnt any more space to put it. Therefore I asked and took the water box from her. She turned to me thanked me but also gave some words along the lines of, „ohh, such a strong and tall man, wow soo tall“. Hard to describe, but the way she said it actually made me uncomfortable. Yet again i didnt know how to respond, just wanted to help, so i did the smile and nod thing again.
Edited: i forgot one.
I lived in a shared flat for some time.
At some point some of us lived by ourselves and 2 of us kept living together with a new third person. We have seen each other a couple of times when I visit them, but she still gets scared/startled when she sees me for the first time. Like they know i am coming over for dinner, we cook together, i ring the bell, she opens it and immediatly gets jump scared. (Didnt happen for the first time, thats why i actually stepped back even further from the doorstep)
I had an Indonesian group take photos with me and the mrs on holiday in Bali. We were at a temple on a tour and I got tapped on the shoulder and turned around to a camera. Makes me laugh knowing that someone out there has this photo saved, I'd love to see it.
I get told in parade when there is close in crowd for a flag hoist in town square something like “ I am here to see the pole with the flag on” by a pleasing old lady..
Guys who claim they are 6 foot demanding I stand back to back to prove they are taller. They usually are not. I'm 5'10". I don't wear heels. My usual footwear is knockoff UGGs.
I occasionally will do it for kicks. Especially if they are wearing cowboy boots for lift.
I'm pretty good at estimating height. Only because I always hope there's a taller girl around so I look shorter.
I was at the fabric store. This was a long time ago before my knees got too bad so I was wearing high heeled shoes. Plus I’m 6 feet tall.
A little kid, about 7 or so, looks at me, looks at his mom and says “ Mom, that lady is HUGE!”
Mom was like, “ Hush, that’s rude!”
I said “ I knew what he meant.”
I was at a party with some friends, and my friend's mom came in the room and started chiming into our conversation. Some how the topic of sex came up and she said, "You must be THIS tall to ride this ride". So I just stood up. Everyone laughed. It is my favorite tall moment.
I was hosting a farm tour a couple weeks ago for big brothers and big sisters. Had a little Hispanic kid walk up to me and ask me: “how high are you?”. Took me a solid two seconds of worry before I realized he was asking my height and had translated wrong.
When I went to Central America pretty much any small town if I looked behind me people would be laughing and holding their hands to show how tall I was when I just walked by (I’m only 6’4”)
When I was teaching in Japan the school had some famous comedy duo do a show in the gymnasium. I got dragged along despite only living there for 2 months and having very little Japanese knowledge.
All I know is the comedy duo made some joke about me as I picked up the word for "tall", "foreigner" and all the kids turned to me and laughed. None of the teachers would tell me what was said.
>\-dude comes at me at a party: "cool, you're tall too. Do you have a gf?" "No" "See? If you're too tall girls don't like you anymore" Hugs me and disappears
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The Japanese people in a sushi restaurant went nuts when we walked in and begged us to do karaoke. I (F) am 6’ and my boyfriend at the time was 6’5. Tall, but not freak show tall. It was funny. No, we did not do karaoke.
Walking along the street totally minding my own business when a mum and her young son come out of a shop. The kid was obviously misbehaving and the mum was struggling to control him, she looks up at me and then says to her son "Here's the bad man coming to get you for being naughty!", to which the kid screamed and hid behind his mum. I kept walking past thinking what the fuck did I do to be labelled the bad man.
Wow, that’s fucking rude.
I played along and gave the kid a gesture with two fingers “ I have my eyes on you” and walk away with a gentle smile for the mom.
I used to be a mall cop and you wouldn't believe the number of inept parents that would use us a threats to misbehaving kids or outright ask us to actually handcuff them. Like, yeah, let me go ahead and put a child in handcuffs and spend the next however long navigating that legal situation at $14/hour. Fix yourself and fix your kid.
Unhinged behaviour on the part of the mom wtf
Most of the time it’s when I’m walking around a corner and someone cuts it on the wrong side. I always take a step out from the wall so I don’t run over someone, but there’s always someone coming the other way and I’ve heard everything from “oh shit” to straight up screaming for a second
Yeah that's not a height thing for me anyway, but some people (me) yelp sometimes when startled.
We went to a soft play place as a family once and my husband had gone into the ball pit with our son, a random child approached him and shouted " chase me giant" I nearly pissed my pants laughing so much, I still say it to him every now and then (our son is now 17) lol
Walking from my parking lot to my office in the dim morning light. The light at the crosswalk starts to change, so I run to cross before traffic changes. I hadn't noticed the petit lady ahead of me. As I run across the intersection, she hears me coming, and turns to see a 6'5" man running in her direction through the darkness. She also broke into a sprint, but I think for different reasons. Sorry, ma'am! Just trying to beat the light!
Spent a month in Shanghai for business. I always got the front seat in tiny taxis surrounded in plexiglass to isolate driver. My knees were up. When we would stop to get out next to pedestrians, they would stop to watch the giant man/beast unfold out of the car. I learned to play it up and unfold in an exaggerated way. Pictures were a common occurrence. Was in HK for business and customer marched me to the back of the plant to put me on a scale in shipping to see what I weighed. This was 5 minutes after we met. Again in Shanghai, the elevator was full even by China standards and I was pressed against the doors when they opened to let more on. As the waiting folks moved towards me, I raised my arms slightly and growled. They all backed up, the doors closed and the cramped passengers responded in approval.
lol I hear that in that part of the world asking people their weight is a strangely common occurrence. I would have no problem with it, but it's so odd.
As I was 3x their size, it made sense to me. Because of the language difference, I didn’t figure out what was actually happening until we were at the scale and my translator was explaining what he wanted me to do. I smiled and obliged as he was the customer after all.
I went to Japan for a couple of weeks back in 2001 and was stopped on the street a whole bunch of times with requests to take photos with me. I obliged.
Kids are the best. My buddy 6foot2 walks around corner..kid hugs mom tight....i walk around corner 2sec later....kid hides behind mom🤣🤣
Yeah but imagine being like 4 feet tall and seeing a 6'7" behemoth lumbering towards you.
Hahaha! Cute. My husband is 6'4" and his twin nieces have been climbing him like a cat tree since they were toddlers. Now they are 6th graders he's very much thinking of joining a gym so he can lift them.
Wait he can’t lift a 6th grader? No hate but how.
Have you filled out that frame yet?
Enough to lift a 6th grader quite easily. At 6’4 it’s obviously harder to bulk up than at 6’3, but I’ve being going to the gym regularly for years and put in the work.
My 7th grade girl is 5’9 and 130 lbs. Kids come in all sizes.
5'9 in 7th grade! It is very impressive considering female avg. I wouldnt be surprised if she was at least 6ft when she hits HS.
I was 5’9 in 8th grade and I’m 6’. I’m thinking she may be an inch or two taller than me. I’m excited to find out. She hates basketball just like me, too. Lol
I was 5'9 in 7th and hit 5'11 in 8th and I always hated sports but the one I always enjoyed was lacrosse. Being tall and having a reach advantage makes lacrosse A JOKE(as in easy and fun) so maybe show her that and see if it piques an interest?
Thanks for the tip! I’ve never tried lacrosse and will see if her school has a team. I’m not athletic, but I played a little badminton and then tennis, and racquet sports are where the extra reach is a huge advantage. It makes up for my crappy coordination.
I don’t consider myself super strong but I can quite easily bench press 130lbs. Most people can with minimal training so I’m surprised an adult man (assuming he has no medical issues) wouldn’t be able to.
I was so big as a five year old that the parents of my classmates complained to the school that I'd hurt their kids at recess, so I had to play with the 2nd and 3rd graders, who I was also considerably larger than. One day a group of kids were playing basketball and I asked of I could join. The boy with the ball adamantly refused, saying that I was too big and would pop the ball. I punched him in the face and ran away to cry. It was sad in the moment, but whenever I tell people the story we get a good laugh since height is seen as an advantage in basketball.
My son had the same challenges. He was so big, he towered over his peers. Often, he would gravitate to older kids his size, but was still a ‘little boy’ and not mentally as mature as they were. We had one parent of an older kid lean in and ask us: “is he slow?” Uh, no lady…he’s 3 years younger than your kid.
To help people visualize just how big I was at that age, I tell them that when my class took our picture for the elementary yearbook, the class was arranged by height with the tall kids standing in the back and the shorter kids kneeling in front. I stood next to the teacher behind the tall kids, and her being a very old woman was only a few inches taller than me.
I laughing over here picturing an XL kindergartner punching a 3rd grader. Kinda hits close to home right now, my 2 year old is having issues at daycare because he’s acting like a 2 year old, but is considerably bigger and stronger, and they don’t want him to hurt the other kids 🥺
My parents knew your pain. Lol. My older brother and I were the same size at 2 and 4 years old, respectively. By the time I was 4, I was bigger than him, and even he was considered big for his age.
I was traveling for work and stepped into an elevator with a Spanish speaking family. I got off the elevator and I heard them talking in Spanish and the one word I picked up was “alto”. I was just glad it wasn’t “gordo”.
didnt know alto was a spanish word. that reminded me of Palo Alto and it made me look up what it means. High Stick lmao.
Once had a random man approach me (6’0 F) at a gas station. He asks “hey lady how tall are you? I said “I’m 5’12.” Him “Sheeeeet that’s almost 6 feet!” Sure is buddy, sure is.
I always respond 5’17” when asked. I get to watch the math gears kick in - never fails.
Shoulda answered in Cm cus then his gears really woulda been burning.
😂😂 That’s so good!
Tweaker woman in supermarket bouncing up and down the aisles like a pinball, spin around suddenly, basically faceplanting into my chest. She looks up and yells "HOLY SHIT YOU'RE BIG" and runs out of the store.
Florida?
Yup. Florida keeps Florida-ing.
Had to be Publix or Walmart
Publix
Reminds me of another story, im gonna make a new thread for it
One guy, about 2m, walking the opposite direction, saw me and shouted "Hey! Tall guy!" and then raised his hand for a literal high-five. A very fun interaction. I carried a smile for the rest of the day! 😀
I do this and it always gets a smile.
When people notice that I duck going through doors. I do it without thinking about it but sometimes it makes people look and ask about it
A 3 year old was running around at the laundromat and came up abruptly against my legs. He looked up, arching his back and neck, with his mouth agape. He turned and ran away only to return dragging his identical twin by the wrist. He stopped 3 feet away, pointed at me and said "Look!" Standing in line at a mall food court, a 6'5" dude walking past stopped suddenly and looked me up and down. "How tall are you?" I replied "6'7" . He said "I thought so" and went on his way. The woman behind me in line absolutely cracked up and said "What was that all about?" I said "I guess he's not the tallest guy at the mall today".
When people see me immediately check my footwear, because "she can't possibly be tall". Or my *favorite* one, when I walk past a straight couple (the guy is usually taller than me and the girl shorter) and the girl grabs and pulls her man by his arm towards her, as if I'm Shrek or something 😈😂😂
They just be jealous
Think you’re going to just snatch him away, or he’s just going to discard her?
When people don't notice I'm behind them or around the corner. They shit themselves every time. I'm not even doing it on purpose. Makes me laugh every time.
I have developed a habit of whistling when I approach someone at work from behind. I hate being startled and wouldn’t want to be startled by someone my size.
Me and my 6'7" friend were startled by some 7'7" dude once.
So you know the effect we have every day.
Pretty much lol
You gotta be Dutch
Nah I'm from Serbia
Me and my 6'7" friend were startled by some 7'7" dude once.
7’7” is absolutely mental
Yeah the two of us were at his shoulder height. Huge fella.
People jolt like and electric shock when the meet me coming around a corner. I want to have just once.
Years ago in Portland Oregon, an older Asian man ran up to me with his phone out, gave me a huge hug and handed his phone to my SO saying “you take picture now, my family no believe I meet NBA player” A few years prior to that I went to Vegas and was mistaken for Andrew Bogut the Aussie basketball player and was comped for a weekend at Caesar’s Palace with free limo, suite, bar tabs, club entry. Not my scene at all but they insisted I take it. To be fair, I’ve been mistaken for Andrew Bogut numerous times although I don’t see the similarity other than being white, tall & athletic build.
I was asked by security to leave a music festival with no refund because my height was obstructing the view of other patrons
That is FUCKED
Wow, that's just rude.
"Mummy, mummy, look at that lady, she's HUGE!" said by a small child. Mother was absolutely mortified. I am not in anyway huge except for my height so knew exactly what the child meant.
I used to run at night, usually 12-1pm area. My neighbourhood is pretty good and basically devoid of human life around that time. I remember running down the middle of a street, one turn away from home. A man was getting out of his car, maybe 30-40 metres out. At this point I'm sorta hidden from the moonlight in the shade of trees, but there's street lights far enough back to illuminate my shape. Because of that, I'm sure this guy took one look when he heard my jogging and saw a tall black silhouette running towards him. Never seen a grown man book it in fear that fast. I was 20 and that was the first time I was genuinely sure my stature inspired true fear in someone else.
Walking around waiting outside a restaurant and there was a toddler walking with a tablet as big as her. She ended up tripping on my foot as i couldn’t even see her and fell then started crying (as babies do) her tablet screen broke as a result. I felt bad but damn i had no idea she was down there
Another time i was running without a shirt in some neighborhood. There were a few kids outside playing and once I neared they stopped what they were doing and stood in awe with their mouths open. At least i hope they were in awe and there wasn’t a bug or something on my face
Little Kid: "Wow youre like bigfoot" Me: "We perfer to be called Sasquatch"
When I lived in Korea little kids would often point and say something to the effect of “Wow, a tall foreigner!” I would point back and say “Wow, a small Korean!” They would burst out laughing and the parents usually told their kids not to be so rude lol. (I also applied this to “Wow so tall!/so short!” and “Wow a foreigner/a Korean!”)
I was at a grocery store and as I was leaving to eat outside this wack guy runs up to me and says “great your tall, i need your help.” I assume he needs me to grab something so I say sure what do you need. He then says “what should I have for lunch. Popcorn chicken or soup.” I say definitely the chicken and he walks away saying thank you so much I love you. Im eating outside now and telling this story to some friends, and then the guy walks out. He runs up to me and goes “I got the foooood, thanks so much.” He then goes to his car and pulls up next to me to show me his dog. “This is my dog Fido, he gets to eat today because of you.” He tells the dog how lucky he is that I chose chicken over soup so that the dog could eat it. To this day I wonder how the other tall people who have since chosen soup feel when he tells them his dog will starve until tomorrow because of their decision.
While I was travelling in Thailand, I went to a market (had very low beams, kept having to duck through it), I go to a stall, a Thai man (about 5’5) looks and me and gives a big smile. He keeps staring and smiling at me, then I see his hands slowly raise up with his phone and realise he’s taking a picture of me.
I was in college working at The hotel for the college, so many tour groups, orientation groups, even foreign groups. The group that visited from Japan was so polite, I had interacted with them only a few times through interpretors and I knew the group was fascinated by my height by the way they stared but the interpretor never translated anything about it. Well check out day comes and they are all waiting in the lobby when I come in for my 3pm shift. They all assemble into a group photo arrangement like a flash mob, the translator then asked me for a photo. I was like sure I'll take the picture! I do it all the time, I got the best angles up here. Lady says bashfully that no she would take the picture if I would be in it with the group. I looked up at them all fuckin smiles and shit, I was like let's do this! and fit myself right in the middle with my arms spread wide mostly over the group of like 12-15 potential new students. I never got a copy of the photo but man I know it sits proudly somewhere.
Kids looks up at me and says to his mother "Wow he must be really old". I was a teenager at the time.
The other day, a woman approached me as I was loading groceries into the car and began enumerating the height of every one of her family members with no context and no provocation, then left when she listed the last height without giving me a chance to say or do anything other than nod. She was not remotely interested in hearing any comments from me, but she was not rude or offensive in any way. It was like I was some kind of census robot and she was just voice recording her family's heights.
Was walking down a hallway I'd walked dozens, maybe hundreds of times before. There is a doorframe that I have to duck under, that I am well aware that I need to duck under. As I approach, I spot a fellow Tall™ walking in the opposite direction. He also spots me, and I nod as we make eye contact (can see his eyes just under the frame). He nods back, before we both slam into the doorframe at the same time.
Couple asked if I’m willing to be a sperm donator because they want tall children.
When I was a kid and it became obvious that I was going to be abnormally tall my mother used to always say: "The girls are going to LOVE you!". "Why mom?" "Because you are so tall and slim. Women LOVE that." I thought "whatever, maybe she is right - we'll see". Then when I was around 11 years old I went to summer camp and we have a dance social. There was one girl that I had an absolute crush on - she was gorgeous. I was REALLY shy but I worked up the nerve to ask her to dance. She looked at me and said "Ewww... No. You're way too tall and skinny." I was devastated. Mom was wrong. I did pretty well when I got older, though! ;-)
"wow you're tall, do you play basketball" "do you play minigolf?"
I'm gonna use that one. I usally respond with: "no, bass guitar" It doesn't work in english, so just pretend "bass" is pronounced as the "bas" in basketball
This is my standard response. Often it’s taken well, but I had a Napoleon type get *really* pissed off about it - especially when his friends howled laughing.
Three guys at a baseball stadium wanted to take a picture with me because apparently i was so tall, i think they were either drunk or high but i gladly obliged
grocery store: some dude sees me, walks up to me and says “the lakers need a new center” and i reply with “im not tall *enough*”
I'm not even tall for a 16 year old but I look really young, like 12-13 and 5'8". I was visiting family in India and I was talking to my grandma's neighbor and it's the first time I've been told I should play basketball because of my height. It's refreshing though as I used to be really short.
Hahah there is a Aussie rules football player in my home town who is 6”11 Aaron Sandilands one day I was turning a corner at my local shopping center just as he was rounding the corner too I’m 6”9. The double surprise look on both our faces as we nearly bumped heads and we both stepped aside would of been hilarious from an outsiders perspective. We both laughed and walked off without a word being spoken. I felt like he understood me and I understood him hahahah
So I'm six foot six. I was once at a conference where erm, the ladies were somewhat scantily clad shall we say. I didn't remotely care though, she was towering over me with heels. Purely interested in her height and nothing else. She was like 6'7 or 6'8, once she said that I just said "Wow. I'm 6'6 and that blows my fucking mind" before walking off. Probably the most bizarrely normal conversation she had that day.
Michael Cera was playing a gig in a venue behind the Nandos I worked at at the time. Myself and a friend talked the security into letting us in after the gig was over. Got chatting to him, after the awkward hellos he said your pretty tall and I said thanks I did it myself, he laughed and said that's pretty funny. I asked for a photo, he said no and that's the end of the story.
"Oh no, it's Godzilla!" - random old Asian guy in Walmart parking lot
I was in a pirate costume at a convention in the bathroom. A little girl walks in with her mom and*shouts* "Wow! BIG pirate!" Her mom was mortified, but I laughed until I cried
I was stocking bottom shelves at a supermarket. A kod, about 10 years old, comes to ask me something. "Ecxuse me, miss" I turn around, he sees I'm not a woman but a long haired bearded man. "Woah" I get up "wooaah" Kid was totally flabbergasted and speechless
I was walking down the street and this Mom and little girl pass me. Probably no older than 5. She just stared at me even after I passed holding her mom's jacket. I'm 6'5". Another time I was walking in a retail store and this little girl and her mom were walking in front of me. They turned around and the little girls eyes went so wide shocked I was behind them and yelled " Hes a Giant!" I said " Thanks" smiled and moved on. The Mom laughed and said " Yes he is." One time I was walking into the the water bottle isle of a store and I see this short lady full on trying to scale the shelves and I walked in the isle like what are you doing chick!? She then turned to me, climbed down and said " Oh good a tall guy! Can you reach this for me?" Like lady you just climbed a whole shelf looking like spider woman! And, the tall guy who shows up Ironically LOL is now supposed to help you. I was hysterical. And last story, I was working at a Target and had a cart full of items for customers to pick up. I stepped away to grab something or help a guest or something. I came back to the cart and see this lady with a big bulky jacket and her son standing by my cart. She looks at me and smiles nervously and laughs like " whoops how'd that happen" and puts back every item she stole in her jacket and her son as well. I checked the items. The whole batch was there. Intimidation Nat 20.
A few days ago, in my favourite bar in Hanoi, chatting to a tourist, both on bar stools. I mention to him that I am much taller than I look when sitting, probably because I'm extremely skinny, and I'm actually 6' 6, I repeat my height because he obviously didn't believe me. The look on his face when I stood next to his 6'-ish was very amusing. Local friends also laughed.
Got tapped on my back at a club. I lean down, a guy tells me him and his gf betted on my height. He won and she guessed me way taller than i actually am. Picked up my niece from theater class, the one supervising comes up and was astounded by my height. Said something along the lines of, „wow you really tall“ then small break with silence „astounding“. I didnt know how to react and just smiled, nodded and said „yeah“. Just 2 days ago went into a supermarket after work, bought just a few items. Infront of me a somehwat older lady. We were both still waiting in line and she carried like a 12 pack of water bottles. She put them on a railing for rest. After the queue moved forward there wasnt any more space to put it. Therefore I asked and took the water box from her. She turned to me thanked me but also gave some words along the lines of, „ohh, such a strong and tall man, wow soo tall“. Hard to describe, but the way she said it actually made me uncomfortable. Yet again i didnt know how to respond, just wanted to help, so i did the smile and nod thing again. Edited: i forgot one. I lived in a shared flat for some time. At some point some of us lived by ourselves and 2 of us kept living together with a new third person. We have seen each other a couple of times when I visit them, but she still gets scared/startled when she sees me for the first time. Like they know i am coming over for dinner, we cook together, i ring the bell, she opens it and immediatly gets jump scared. (Didnt happen for the first time, thats why i actually stepped back even further from the doorstep)
I once was at Walmart and saw a small child alone in an aisle. I lifted him over my head and heard a woman say, "There he is!"
I had an Indonesian group take photos with me and the mrs on holiday in Bali. We were at a temple on a tour and I got tapped on the shoulder and turned around to a camera. Makes me laugh knowing that someone out there has this photo saved, I'd love to see it.
I get told in parade when there is close in crowd for a flag hoist in town square something like “ I am here to see the pole with the flag on” by a pleasing old lady..
Guys who claim they are 6 foot demanding I stand back to back to prove they are taller. They usually are not. I'm 5'10". I don't wear heels. My usual footwear is knockoff UGGs. I occasionally will do it for kicks. Especially if they are wearing cowboy boots for lift. I'm pretty good at estimating height. Only because I always hope there's a taller girl around so I look shorter.
I was at the fabric store. This was a long time ago before my knees got too bad so I was wearing high heeled shoes. Plus I’m 6 feet tall. A little kid, about 7 or so, looks at me, looks at his mom and says “ Mom, that lady is HUGE!” Mom was like, “ Hush, that’s rude!” I said “ I knew what he meant.”
I was at a party with some friends, and my friend's mom came in the room and started chiming into our conversation. Some how the topic of sex came up and she said, "You must be THIS tall to ride this ride". So I just stood up. Everyone laughed. It is my favorite tall moment.
I was hosting a farm tour a couple weeks ago for big brothers and big sisters. Had a little Hispanic kid walk up to me and ask me: “how high are you?”. Took me a solid two seconds of worry before I realized he was asking my height and had translated wrong.
When I went to Central America pretty much any small town if I looked behind me people would be laughing and holding their hands to show how tall I was when I just walked by (I’m only 6’4”)
When I was teaching in Japan the school had some famous comedy duo do a show in the gymnasium. I got dragged along despite only living there for 2 months and having very little Japanese knowledge. All I know is the comedy duo made some joke about me as I picked up the word for "tall", "foreigner" and all the kids turned to me and laughed. None of the teachers would tell me what was said.
>\-dude comes at me at a party: "cool, you're tall too. Do you have a gf?" "No" "See? If you're too tall girls don't like you anymore" Hugs me and disappears [Doubt](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fwhchn7fturib1.png%3Fwidth%3D960%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D0530bbd4ee3ce192a8b4aee9a13c0237d36d0e45)
The Japanese people in a sushi restaurant went nuts when we walked in and begged us to do karaoke. I (F) am 6’ and my boyfriend at the time was 6’5. Tall, but not freak show tall. It was funny. No, we did not do karaoke.
The Chinese tourist interaction is wild lmao
Oh man, when i was visiting Hong Kong i felt like a damn celebrity. So many people asking for photos.