Forums > Short Encounters > Shortest person you've met?
Lol since theres no posts at ALL in this forum I guess I’ll take the liberty and make the 1st!
So who’s the smallest person you’ve ever met? Excluding little people I suppose. Thats cheating. =P
I met this 4’5“ish waiter at my local Cheesecake factory. Nice man. XD
my aunt and two friends of mine are 4’1’‘
I met a guy who was around 4’6” or so at a Gamestop a few years ago. Didn’t say much to him though, but damn if he was cute.
One of my best friends is 5’4”. He’s the boy I carry in my avatar pic. Other than him I know a boy who was 4’11” the last time I saw him!
I dated a guy 4’6” 75#...it was really hot being the giant!
4’8’‘ – so then i looked tall then.
A girl who I went to highschool with. She was two grades ahead of me, and to be honest wasn’t a fan of her. She used her height and condition as an excuse to be mean. She was 4’1” because of Turner’s syndrome.
My one friend – she is 4’12.5” She never did break that 5’ threshold.
theres 12inchs in a foot so 4ft 12 would be equal to 5ft lol
I know – That was the joke. LOL
When I was back in High School there was a girl that I graduated with that was under 4’0” tall. She always wore heals. She ended up being my lab partner in chemistry. When she stood on the lab stool that was 2’6 high she was still shorter than I was. I wish we had camera phones back then. Her brother was 6’-4”.
Close Encounters of the Small Kind.
Not long ago I saw a very small man at a bookstore. As I was passing the magazine rack I could see several people standing on the other side, browsing through the magazines. The rack was below shoulder height to me, but one of the people on the other side was so short that all I could see was the top of a baseball cap just clearing the top of the rack. I assumed the cap was worn by a kid and that one of the men standing on either side was his dad. But when I rounded the corner I was surprised to see that the person with the cap was a grown man, not a boy. I’m six feet tall and the top of this guy’s head was well below my shoulder. He couldn’t have been more than 4’8”. He was a proportional little person, not a dwarf, and quite good looking, late 30’s, with a trim build, handsome features and a masculine looking beard shadow – one of those dark haired but light complexioned guys whose jaw and cheeks are permanently shadowed, even after a fresh shave. The little guy was wearing jeans and a polo shirt that could only have come from the children’s department. But although he was only boy size, it was immediately obvious from his beard shadow and well-developed body that he wasn’t a boy. His shirt was snug enough to show that he worked out and that his wiry little frame was well muscled. I also couldn’t help noticing how small his shoes were, definitely kid size, and how tiny his hands looked as he reached up to put a magazine back on the rack.
Later I saw the same little guy again standing in line at the checkout counter. I got in line just behind him him, so I had an even better opportunity to observe. This time he was with a woman, probably his wife, and a boy who appeared to be late grade school, maybe 11. From the resemblance the boy was clearly his son. The wife was wearing flats but she was still a full head taller than her husband, and the boy already topped his dad by an inch or so. As I mentioned, the dad was a slim, wiry little guy. He was more muscular than his son, and slightly broader through the shoulders, but the jeans they were both wearing appeared to be the same brand and size. The boy’s shoes were at least two sizes bigger than his dad’s, however.
I am fascinated by small people, and curious about what it would be like to be their size. Imagine being married to a woman a head taller than you, knowing that she isn’t much more than average height, even for a woman. You have to stretch on your toes as she bends down to meet your lips for a kiss. When your wife dresses up in heals and a cocktail dress you only come up to her shoulder, giving you an eye level view of her cleavage. When you work together in the kitchen you probably ask for her help to hand you items from the upper shelves or put them away for you, so you don’t have to climb on a stool.
Imagine being able to share clothes with your grade school son; watching your son and his friends sprout up past you before they enter puberty; or wearing hand-me-down jeans outgrown by a 12 year old. Imagine taking your son and a group of his friends to a ball game for his 12th birthday and discovering that you are the shortest one in the group. You have to look up to these sixth graders. Your son’s friends get a kick out of standing next to you and comparing heights, or the size of their feet which are all bigger than yours. The tallest boy is tall enough to see over the top of your head. He grins as he looks back down at you.
And what would it be like to interact with other adults as a 4 foot 8 man, having to look up at everyone you meet? Other men tower above you and many women do too. Even the most petite women are taller than you in heels. You have to tilt your head way back to meet a tall man’s gaze as you carry on a conversation, looking up and up past his chest and shoulders that rise above your head. When you shake hands with even an average size man your much smaller hand is completely engulfed in his comparatively gigantic one. In a crowd all you can see in front of you is a wall of shoulders and backs. Imagine being stuck at the back of a crowded elevator as people are leaving your office building at lunch hour, staring at the back of someone’s jacket pressed against your face and feeling smothered.
In public strangers follow you with their eyes as you walk past, wondering whether you are a little person with a growth problem, or just unusually small. Women smile down at you condescendingly, probably thinking “how cute”. Some strangers are bold enough — or rude enough — to come up and ask you your height straight out, exclaiming about how short you are when you tell them you are four feet eight. Young children stare at you openly, curios to see a grownup so much closer to their own size.
I can understand why some short men are sensitive about their height and resent comments about it. But I find it intriguing to imagine myself as a small man. As a six footer it is not often that I meet a woman I have to look up to, or a man who towers over me. But when I do, I like it. I think I would enjoy being four foot eight. Of course, that’s easy for me to say since I have never had to walk in a small man’s shoes. Maybe the negatives would outweigh the positives. I have found it interesting reading the postings by short guys on this site and would appreciate hearing more about your experiences and how you feel around taller people.
Interesting…btw I think you’re the one who wrote something on a yahoo group I had which you called “shrunk myself” (you were using jasbow7 I think) in which you imagined yourself shrunk down to 4’7” or so. I think I have it in the fiction section of shrinkingman.com
While people like me can get a kick out of seeing someone that size, imagining them, reading about their lives, etc., it is obvious that they have to live in a world built for people bigger than them AND deal with stares, etc. For example check out a recent post on the dwarfism yahoo group by a non-proportional dwarf who is 4’6” and had some teens noticing him and taking his pic, etc., as if he were some kind of freak. He felt his privacy was invaded etc.
>>how small his shoes were
And you say later his son’s feet were a couple sizes bigger than his. At certain stages of childhood it seems kids’ feet and hands are bigger than you’d expect them to be, so maybe not surprising. I have seen posts by a guy named Steve who said he’s just over 4 foot 10 and weighs about 87 pounds…his shoe size is 3 and a half. Often he must see kids the same age as him, with feet considerably bigger.
>>Young children stare at you openly, curios to see a grownup so much closer to their own size.
Hopefully kids these days are taught not to stare, to treat people of unusual size with respect, but it’s inevitable that they’d get a kick out of it. You’re 11 yrs old and have to deal with adults over 6 ft tall, and here comes a 4’8” adult—suddenly you’re the same size as a grownup if not taller. In some cases though kids may find
they can get along well with a short adult—they can somehow bond with a grownup who happens to be their size.
Let’s see, I think this was your story
http://shrinking.freehostia.com/Stories/shrinkmyself.html
>>I grabbed my sneakers and put them on but find that they’re a couple sizes too big. Then I realize what happened: it turned out my 9 year old son and I have sneakers that are the same style (bought them the same day). The only difference is he wears a size 4 and I’m a size one. No wonder they seem big on me—I grabbed my 9 year old son’s sneaks by mistake!
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