[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
Malevolence wrote:
Also, I don’t think 6’2 qualifies as tall for the purposes of this conversation. Unless you are pretty disproportionate, I’ve found that it isn’t until about 6’4 or 6’5 that the world stops being built with you in mind.
This is very true. I find that certain comforts and conveniences are JUST out of my range at 6’4". I’ll test drive a car, put the seat back as far as it can go and realize that its about 3 inches too short. Most jeans available in stores stop right above my ankle, making me look like some crawfish-collecting rube.
The worst, though, is shopping for shoes. Any other size 13s or above here? I go into Foot Locker, get measured, and hear an audible sigh from the attendant as they read out “13”. I see a cool looking pair of shoes and ask if they have it. “I’ll check in the back”. 3 minutes later, “nope, only goes up to 12”. Repeat this about 10 times as your selections become less and less stylish. “Nope, just to 12 sir”. You finally start to lower your standards, looking at shoes you never intended to buy. I mean, is size 12 the cut-off between normal, bipedal human and gangly, stork-like freak?! Finally you ask “well, what DO you have in a 13?” and they emerge 10 minutes later from the backroom with a pair of leopard-print Converse, some all-white Reebok tennis shoes that a circa-1985 stock broker would wear, and a pair of flip-flops made out of molded, neon-coloured polyurethane.
Thanks Foot Locker, although I’m impressed by your selection of larger sizes I’ve opted instead to wrap my feet in burlap sacks. [/quote]
I also doubt this conversation applies to someone who is 6’2 or less. I’m 6’2 though, and wear a size 14 shoe along with really big clothes. I have given up on getting shoes in stores. The statement about cars makes some sense, I however can not fit in any Corvette I have ever sat in. I broke the seat on one and cant get the door closed on someone else’s. So I drive a Mustang.
