Short people got no reason to live.

Being short has a couple ups but some serious downs.

UPS
1) I can be comfortable sleeping in many different types of beds. Nothing is too short for me.

2) I can put my feet up comfortably in movie theaters (and it drives me crazy when someone sits in front of me, meaning I have to keep my feet down for the movie. I just recently learned that not everyone likes doing this.)

3) I can comfortably put my feet up on our dashboard while sitting shotgun in the car.

Basically, the best part about being short is the comfort that comes with it.

DOWNS
1) The world honestly forgets about you! Our apartment spyhole in our door is up too high. I can't look through it without getting on my tippy toes. No one thought about a 5 foot tall resident living here, did they? Or maybe it is an underlying message that I am not welcome here. Discrimination law suit, here I come!

2) Grocery stores place things up too high. I always feel stupid when I am stretching for something on the top shelf with all my might, only to not be able to reach it. I always feel more stupid when I have to ask a stranger to get something off the top shelf for me. Blah.

3) Severe lack of shoes. SOOOO many stores start their women's sizes at size 6. Why, WHY? Why can't you start at size 5? It's a nice number. Payless used to be my source of size 5 shoes, but it seems as though each time I enter the store their size 5 section shrunk since the time before. But of course, the size 8 section is 3X the size. No joke.

4) Playing water games is not very fun. While everyone else splashes and stands in the 5 ft deep water, I has to tread or cling to the side of the pool. Blah.

5) Don't......get me started.......on PANTS! It is a rare, rare occassion when I go from buying a pair of jeans to wearing them without the dreaded middle step of getting them hemmed. And if a blessed pair of jeans are short to wear, they still end up with tears and holes in the bottom by the heel from catching on my shoes. And if it is raining my pants get crazy wet, we're talking all the way up to the mid calf.

In conclusion, being short is not that great. If anyone would like to spare of few unwated inches, I would happily take them.