Yeah, everything sucks man, no one has it great. I get being short sucks, but as I said to another commenter, at least you literally fit into the world. You fit in cars, you fit in doorways and airplane seats. I’m assuming you can buy pants without having to order 5-10 of them online to try on and ship back the rest?

I’m with you, I mean, honestly, they could give a little extra legroom and make the seats permanently leaned back and it would be fine. I think it’s a little bit like people want to be able to take a little comfort at someone else’s expense in a situation like an airplane where everyone is uncomfortable in some way. .…

I never said it was safe vs unsafe to have more room, just that it’s safer. Also, after a hard crash where literally my entire femur is wedged between the seat back behind me and the seat back in front of me (and it’s not like the one in front of you is nice and soft), getting up and walking may be an issue. I might…

Yeah, I’ve heard of that, with the tailors. I know there are some websites where you can send measurements/pictures and they’ll make you suits or shirts. If I needed to wear those on the regular, I’d probably look into it, but right now I work remote 85% of the time and the rest I can get by on polos and…

That’s a good suggestion, however, it’s difficult to achieve in my situation. I don’t travel any predictable or common routes really and my corporate travel rules are draconian to where $$ is the most important thing, so when I book, I usually can’t get away with specifying an airline or even 2 airlines.

Well, honestly I’d be happy if they’d just let me pay a nominal fee for the damn exit row like you used to be able to do on almost every airline before they decided that they wanted to reserve them for Frequent Flyers.

I used to do this, but people would usually look at me and double or triple it thinking I’m either made of money or would pay anything to not fly coach. I am not rich, I’m not paying $150 to upgrade. . . I don’t bother to ask anymore, I just do my best to do the legwork ahead of time to make sure I have an acceptable…

Yeah, I’m not talking about salary benefits. It sucks just existing as an extremely tall person. Everyone’s always looking at me as a giant, I’m constantly hitting my head or shoulders or whatever on things, I don’t fit in roller coasters/cars/airplane seats or buy clothes. I’m already married, so I don’t need the…

Yeah, I try to give them a heads up as they sit down (or as I sit down if they’re there first) and just say “Look, I am a giant person, I’m telling you right now that my femur isn’t going to allow you to put your seat back, so I’d really appreciate it if you didn’t try. It’s not stuck, it’s pushing my knees. . . “ or…

This exact thing happened to me and I’ve never wanted to commit murder more than at this point in my life. My wife and I were flying from New Orleans to LAX several years back after a 5 day volleyball tournament. Both of us were very tired and sore from playing for most of 5 days (and drinking/partying all night) and…

Your whole post matches my experience as well. Top to bottom (except for the catholic thing), but your last sentence:

Yeah, it was amazing. I had a weird body in HS/early College. I played sports all the time, so my legs were extremely big and strong, and I have really broad shoulders and a big head. There was just nothing but muscle and sinew on in the middle. I basically looked like a taller/ganglier Johnny 5 from Short Circuit.

My preferred hairstyle is kind of like Frye from Futurama (though not bright red/orange) and kind of sticks up in the front. I end up using this like cats use their whiskers, to be able to feel things. My ‘hair horn’ often brushes along the tops of doorways or low hanging tree branches etc as I walk by. . .

Oh yes, I have zero expectation I will get comfortable enough to even comfortably rest my head on anything. The next time I fall asleep on a plane (got business class to Australia in a couple weeks!) will likely be the first. . .

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It could be way worse, when I was in HS and college, I had the opposite problem I have now, where I was 6'6 and like 170lbs, so anything long enough to cover my stomach was like wearing a tent and anything that fit my waist was way too short.

I got it the 2nd time around (which gives some insight into why I missed it in the first place. . .)

Our office is some renovated former factory loft type office (think typical northeast software company chic), so if I did this, it could be quite high. I think the ceilings are like 18'?

Yeah, that’s good advice, and I try to do that on personal travel if I can’t find what I want. But the stupid corporate rules are the problem here, since whatever I get is compared to what was freely available at the time I reserved a ticket (seriously, when we book a trip, our travel coordinator gets notified…

woops that would quite a catastrophic drop in height. I may be okay with being 6" tall if it was some kind of “honey I shrunk the . . . “ movie and I got to hang w/ Rick Moranis, but otherwise, 6' would be quite fine. . .