You're so skinny!

[TinyWaitress]

Not overly sucky, just really damn annoying.

As you may have assumed by my name, I'm both tiny and a waitress. I stand at all of 5 foot 5, and weigh about 90 pounds soaking wet. And wearing an all black uniform at work doesn't help much.

I work at a place that sells desserts, the covered in chocolate and icecream and 5billion calories each kind.Lately I've noticed a HUGE increase in the number of people who ask my how I stay so thin and work there. Some of them just go "I have to ask", some of them outright go "How are you so damn skinny" etc etc. I used to think it was funny, but now I seem to get someone asking me that every shift without fail. It's ridiculous! I just kind of give a humourless chuckle now and go " I don't eat here every day"

Because of course working at a dessert place means I should be the size of a whale.And why people feel the need to comment on my appearance I have no idea. Anyone else have people doing something similar to them? Either that or any advice on what to say, because at this point I've told several coworkers I'm going to bash plates on people's heads if they ask me again.

[Evil Queen]

Hi. I'm five foot flat and skinny as a rail too. Luckily, my uniform is dark blue. But it doesn't help either.

When I was waitressing, I would get that question on occation. If it was a person I knew decently, I'd crack a joke about it But normally it was a question posed by touristas. So my answer became the normal "Look at this place, do you see a moment of peace here?" laugh, and go on to the next table. (I worked in a very busy 24-hour diner)

[rerant]

I used to get that when I was at IKEA because the cash registers were right near the bistro area and they were constantly baking cinnamon buns.
People would ask how I was so thin with having to deal with that smell all day.
K here's the thing, I may be on the slightly taller side of girls at 5'7", but I'm 140Lbs so not skinny. I'm your every day run-of-the-mill average sized chick.
Secondly, cinnamon buns are gross. There, I said it. They're gross and yes, the smell did bother me, but not because it made me hungry, but because it made me want to puke.

[crazylegs]

6'8, 168lb here (blimey, that sounds loads compared to stone! )

So yer, I get the comments all the time

"You should be in the Police" (when I'm not at work)
"You should be in the [Coldstream] Guards"
"Do you play basketball"

Because all tall people play ball, just like all short people are jockeys and all fat people are sumo wrestlers [/sarcasm]

I had some kid (about 8-10, old enough to know better) in M&S the other day
"Mum!, Look at this man, he's really Tall!
Mum! Look, he's really tall!
MUM, LOOK AT THIS REALLY TALL MAN!!"
Rinse, lather repeat.


My patience wore very thin very quickly.

[Jay 2K Winger]

I don't really have that problem, myself. (Six-foot-two and packin' a bit too much weight.) But I know for a fact that people who are So Damn Skinny at places that sell delicious/fattening food more often than not DON'T eat where they work. It probably helps.

Still, I have the problem with having to smell delicious food cooking at work sometimes. The rotisserie chicken at the meat department, some of the scrumptious things the demo ladies are serving, the popcorn cooking at the food court. People sometimes look at me and ask, "How can you stand that smell and not be starving?"

My answer: "I never come to work on an empty stomach."

It's a piece of advice I pass along to all my new coworkers: "Never come to work on an empty stomach. You will be STARVING by the time your break comes along after seeing all that food go past you."

[Gerrinson]

My dad used to get that. When my parents got married he was 6'2" and weighed 120 lbs. After two years in the Marine corps.

I used to be skinny, but now I get to hear about how I'm too fat and need to lose some weight. Seems you just win.

[wagegoth]

I managed an ice cream and frozen yogurt shop that served sandwiches and some hot food for a couple of years for my parents. I lost about 20 pounds while I was there.

[blas]

I never had any problem with weight gain until I was a trainer. Even then, I was only a few pounds overweight, but I felt awful.

I worked at a grocery store, a Deb shop in a mall with Cinnabon, Pretzel Time, etc etc etc, a gas station with all kinds of pastries.......and never had an issue.

I guess it all depends on personal perception. I'm 5'3 1/2 and about 120 lbs. Some people think I'm too skinny (I'm all boobs and butt), some people think I'm just right, and some people (damn modeling agencies and stupid guys and girls) think I'm fat.

[Trayol]

I'm 6'5 and 350+lbs. I always get
"Do you play football?" No
"You would be great as a linemen." Thanks
Now repeat ad nauseum from everyone all the time. It gets old after the third time.

And to all the shorter women on the board, you shouldn't threat. I have a friend who is 6'2 and is dating girl who is 4'7. I keep telling them they would be a fantasy dream: a sasquatch dating an elf.

[blas]

Trayol, this may not apply to everyone, but most taller guys I know prefer shorter girls. My mom was 5'2 before she started shrinking and my dad is 6'4.

[Evil Queen]

Trayol, this may not apply to everyone, but most taller guys I know prefer shorter girls. My mom was 5'2 before she started shrinking and my dad is 6'4.

I could believe that Blas. My EX is 6'4 and loved bending my over backwards when he kissed me. I hated it with a passion.

My current squeeze is a nice, manageable 5'8.

[blas]

I like when a tall guy leans way down to kiss me or just picks me up and does it!

My coworker Mo was rolling her eyes when I told her I only like tall guys, and she said "Blas, it doesn't matter how tall they are when you're lying down!"

[iradney]

Hehehe
TTO is 6'10 and i'm 5'7
But yeah, it bugs the crap out of me when people you DON"T KNOW feel an urge to comment on your weight. WTF?

[Pairou]

I'm 5'4", 94lbs usually. As a result I get picked up (physically, swung up in the air) by friends' friends and asked when I'm starting high school, and aren't I just so cute and tiny?

...I'm turning 20.

I do not understand what their problem is. Or why some people just won't stop trying to carry me around. I'm not a purse!

...and Blas: I gigglesnorted.

[Evil Queen]

Hi Pairou. I'm constantly being told I'm 12, not 21.