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[Sunsetsky]

I'm not the tallest person in the world either. And I enjoy intimidating people who are a lot taller then me (only when they deserve it of course ).

[TonyDonuts]

"Are you a supervisor!?".

Complete bluff.

Sure, some supervisors will say, "Take it."

But the smart ones know that that Starter Check + Attitude = Bounced Check. So the actual equation should read Starter Check + Attitude = Get the Hell Outta Here and Stop Pestering MY Staff! So Little Miss or Mr. Belligerent Putz doesn't REALLY want a supervisor, they're hoping that you won't want to "bother" your supervisor and thus get into some kind of "trouble."

If somebody's trying to intimidate you, if they're getting belligerent, call a supervisor over. YOU ain't getting paid nearly enough to put up with that crap.

Besides, it's actually kinda fun, shutting fools like that DOWN. The Big Smile as the concerned supervisor walks over, all "Is there a problem here?" and then watching the Big Smile turn into a Frustrated Frown as you say, "Oh, a starter check? No, that's bad, have you another form of payment? Oh, I'm sorry, bitterly sorry, but we simply can't take starter checks. Yes, I'm absolutely sure, starter checks are not an accepted form of payment for us. Well, then I guess we won't be able to do business today. Try us again when you do have a different form of payment." Now THATs a party.

[Andara Bledin]

Broomjockey, I'm short and while CS may not condone violence let me just point out my size allows me better aim at certain areas of the body.

Heee... I have a character in City of Heroes that the shortest you can make a character. She's cute, looks like an anthro dark grey kitty cat, and punches like a ton of bricks. One of her attacks is an uppercut, and it hits square right in the jewels on the vast majority of enemies.

^-.-^

[Food Lady]

What Tony said. It's not my job to deal with problem people. I am supposed to hand off any transaction that takes longer than a minute or two to fix/complete. But then again, our managers aren't supposed to leave the front end.

[LadyAndreca]

Heee... I have a character in City of Heroes that the shortest you can make a character. She's cute, looks like an anthro dark grey kitty cat, and punches like a ton of bricks. One of her attacks is an uppercut, and it hits square right in the jewels on the vast majority of enemies.

^-.-^

Broadsword scrapper...disembowel...right up the center...

[dalesys]

Broadsword scrapper...disembowel...right up the center...

I dismember some buried storybook (A Diskworld?) in my collection had a bit about a dwarf basketball team: what they lacked in height the made up with verticat acceleration (plus a spiked helmet).

[Moggie]

Broadsword scrapper...disembowel...right up the center...

Eng/Eng blaster. I just like playing skeet shoot with Skulls.
"Pull!"
"FREEEM!"

[BookstoreEscapee]

In my experience, the shorter women are the ones with the shortest fuses, and while we may appear cute and Munchkin-like, we can be quite dangerous!

One of my college friends is 5 feet...the word we used was "feisty"... As in, "you're feisty for a little person."

Besides, being short makes you good at climbing...I'm pretty average now (slightly over 5'4") but I was small for my age as a child and I was very good at jumping onto the counters to get into the cabinets. Chair? Stepstool? Who needs that?!

I have learned that something fishy + rude, pushy or belligerant = scam. Once they crossed that line, I shut them down. I NEVER got in trouble of doing that.

Complete bluff.

Sure, some supervisors will say, "Take it."

But the smart ones know that that Starter Check + Attitude = Bounced Check. So the actual equation should read Starter Check + Attitude = Get the Hell Outta Here and Stop Pestering MY Staff! So Little Miss or Mr. Belligerent Putz doesn't REALLY want a supervisor, they're hoping that you won't want to "bother" your supervisor and thus get into some kind of "trouble."

If somebody's trying to intimidate you, if they're getting belligerent, call a supervisor over. YOU ain't getting paid nearly enough to put up with that crap.

Exactly. That's when you get super-accommodating. "Of course, let me call the supervisor for you. Absolutely." If they're really scamming they'll probably back down and suddenly be in a hurry.

[Soulstealer]

Besides, being short makes you good at climbing...I'm pretty average now (slightly over 5'4") but I was small for my age as a child and I was very good at jumping onto the counters to get into the cabinets. Chair? Stepstool? Who needs that?!

I still do that. What? Why would anyone expect me to learn a lesson from falling off the counter at age 7?

[BookstoreEscapee]

I still do that. What? Why would anyone expect me to learn a lesson from falling off the counter at age 7?

Don't recall ever falling. That's either a good thing or a bad thing

There is a picture of me somewhere at approximately 2 1/2 standing in a kitchen drawer, too.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I just take it as a compliment that it's easier to hide and disappear in a crowd if you're short.

Which does come in handy at times . . .

also, being short means you have a good reason to bug a taller person to reach the high stuff for you.

I'm 5'4 and I have no qualms about asking one of the stockers to reach the top layer of totes off a pallet for me.

[LadyAndreca]

Eng/Eng blaster. I just like playing skeet shoot with Skulls.
"Pull!"
"FREEEM!"

Well, if you REALLY want to skeet shoot, use a grav/energy dominator. Lift to toss 'em in the air, then your FREEEM! power of choice for the knockback.

[Andara Bledin]

Well, if you REALLY want to skeet shoot, use a grav/energy dominator. Lift to toss 'em in the air, then your FREEEM! power of choice for the knockback.

Nekojin & I have a pair of Grav Controllers. You should see the height we can get on thugs when we stagger our Lifts. Bwahahaha.

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[Jay 2K Winger]

Broomjockey, I'm short and while CS may not condone violence let me just point out my size allows me better aim at certain areas of the body.

*snerk* I recall that same sort of statement popping up frequently in Discworld books. Dwarfs, for one, take advantage like that, and Arnold Sideways, well... "a man with good teeth at groin height had it all his own way."