Dear Customers who feel the need to comment on my size...

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

...GET BENT!

I am only 5'3 tall. I have long since come terms with my height and accepted that I am not and will never be a large man. It does have its advantages (I can navigate through large crowds easily and save money buy getting my clothes in the kids section) but I also realize I will forever be seen as someone who is "different" from the norm.

Over the past three weeks I've had three different customers call me either "little guy" or "little man." That's pretty insensitive to me. I'm no "little person", I'm just a fully grown man of shorter than average height.

Though they may have meant it in jest, this is NOT appreciated. There are a select few of my close friends and family who have my permission to rib me to an extent about my height but that's it.

I don't think anyone would walk into an office with an overweight woman at the desk and say "Hey fat girl" or "Hey big lady" and yet they don't seem to have the tact when it comes to height.

Fortunately most customers don't make a peep about my size and see me the same as everyone else. I just wish the rest of them would do the same.

[Food Lady]

Ugggghhhh...as a person who sometimes lacks tact, I ask your forgiveness on behalf of all of us. And, as an aside, some shorter men are hot. (I have a thing for Seth Green. )

[Marmalady]

As someone who also wasted many years wishing they were taller, I do feel your pain.

My view now is that they don't make diamonds as big as bricks.

[Kristev]

Fat-bashing happens too. It's a constant problem. Humans are so judgmental as a species.

[lobo94]

And people wonder why I like cats.

[Kristev]

Agreed. Cats are strictly better than people.

[Whiskey]

They don't call you big lady, they ask how far along you are.

[Can I Help Your A$$?]

Yeah, unfortunately, people actually walk up to you (actually, they're cowards, so they like to yell from cars) and call you fat. By "you," I mean me.

However, I know that for real, there are still more nice people out there who are mostly just concerned about themselves and their own problems, and whenever someone pays me a compliment, I try to focus on that and forget the insulters who are mostly 20-somethings and youngers. They're not the majority anymore.

[jiarby]

I went to a cell phone store and was helped by a guy of dimmunitive stature... OK, well he was pretty short..

After he showed me a few phones I asked what his name was. He said "Manny" but since I did not hear it quite right I thought he said "Mini"

Oy Vey!

Then I rambled on and on about how "Mini" was a Great name for a short guy all thewhile he was giving me the cat-butt face and glaring through me with the laser eyeballs.

After a couple minutes of me making an a$$ of myself he cleared his throat and corrected me and said...
"I said "Manny"... not "Mini"!

Oh Oh...

I realized what I had done, and high-tailed it out of the store because of embarassment.



Even worse...


A few weeks later,

I was meeting someone to deliver a job (we make signs) and we decided to meet in the parking lot of the cell phone store. While we were out front my customer brought up cell phones because they knew I had been looking. I told them I ended up getting <a different carrier's> phone and couldn't go to the VZ store again... Then I told him the entire Manny/Mini story...

Who do you think was outside behind a brick column about 5 feet away on his smoke break and heard the WHOLE THING...

Yep....

He just gave me the death stare, then threw down and stomped out his cigarette butt and went back into the store.

I swear I had no idea he was there.

Now I do not even drive on that street!

[Amina516]

Im 5'1" so CrazedClerk...you'd be tall to me.. My hubby is 5'5ish and I'm fine with that. If he were any taller id have to tiptoe to kiss him.

Reminds me of a time I was walking down a hallway after helping a patient to a wheelchair, i start to walk away and I hear her tell the aide "Well, that ones got a BIG rear end, dont she?! Look! Look at it!!"

Lol... I kinda walked sideways after that.

People like to talk. I dont think half of them think about what theyre saying as it comes out.

[GreedySmurf]

Hey Clerk,

If it makes you feel any better, it's just some ignorant people in general. Not just because you're a bit shorter than usual. I'm 6'2", and a bit overweight. And I occasionally get called 'Big Fella'. Which when friends and colleagues do it is sort of OK. But a complete stranger? irritates me.

[MageAkyla]

I have the complete opposite problem. I'm a 6'2" woman who until recently was the tallest in my entire store. Yeah...the customers like to comment about ANYTHING, usually thinking they're funny.

As an aside, I always had a thing for short guys...granted shorter than me isn't hard to find, heh.

[sweetj82]

i get fat bashed alot of customers

EX.....

The fat girl over there

you know the big woman

the big ass lady


i was called lazy a few times and a big



and so on


one time i walked out of McD when we had one....note carrying nothing and a skinny lady said of course a fat person eats there.....i was taking them some of there mail that ended up in my office

[BookstoreEscapee]

Hey, I went to college with a guy who was about my height (5'4"ish); his girlfriend was a good head taller than him. They got engaged at the end of our senior year (her junior year); last I saw them at the 5 year reunion they had an adorable little boy, who when sitting on dad's shoulders could look mom right in the eye.

[tropicsgoddess]

Cats Dogs are strictly better than people.

Edited for truth...and my amusement.