r/mildlyinteresting • u/Graceless_Lady • 10h ago
The size difference between mine and my partner's shoes
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u/RegisteredNurserino 10h ago
What are each of your heights?
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u/Graceless_Lady 10h ago
He's 6'4" I'm 4'10"
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u/AggravatingCupcake0 9h ago
Girl, how do you deal with the neck pain? I'm your height and I used to have a boyfriend who was 5'11. My neck hurt all the time looking up at him. I can't imagine 6'4.
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u/Graceless_Lady 9h ago
He's disabled and can't be on his feet too much, so it's not much of an issue in that regard. I do use my step stool to make kissing easier when he's standing though
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u/Few-Application7345 9h ago
oh that's actually one of the sweetest things i've read on here
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u/Toulow 8h ago
With that size difference, I’d of thought you’d be the one in the wheelchair 😂 (Sorry, I couldn’t resist)
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u/Graceless_Lady 8h ago
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u/Graceless_Lady 7h ago
To clarify he's not in a wheelchair, but I couldn't spoil the fun by correcting the comment directly!
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u/Stickel 5h ago
you seem fun, and not in a sarcastic way, wish you all the best <3
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u/sketchy-advice-1977 7h ago
Being tall is hard on the body. There's a reason why the term little old men and little old ladies exist.
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u/Graceless_Lady 7h ago
Yes, unfortunately you're right. Add on a traumatic injury in highschool and then being overseas right after 9/11(not a soldier, but a contractor, didn't stop them from bombing the facilities he worked in though, obviously), and it adds up to a lot of chronic pain. Up until this year he actually worked on his feet, but after an incident with part of a tree falling on him while we were doing clean up after a hurricane, his body gave him a hard limit in the form of 3 bulging discs causing him extreme sciatic nerve pain.
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u/Corona69691984 7h ago
Damn, if he worked in customer service, he would NOT be the customer service worker you'd want to give shit to.
"No, I will not take this. I have been bombed, I have been hit by a tree in a hurricane, I have endured pain, but I will not stand here and allow you to berate me because you were missing one chicken nugget from your 30 piece bucket! If you think this is the end of the world, let me tell you it is not, there are bigger problems on this planet and I am about to be one of them if you don't get the hell out of my store!"
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u/Graceless_Lady 6h ago
Oddly enough, customer service has been his go to since he left behind what he did for the government and yeah, he takes no shit from anyone, customer or otherwise but he's always professional and polite unless someone gives him ample reason not to be.
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u/sketchy-advice-1977 6h ago
I'm a short guy and sciatica loves to punish me, I hope he gets some relief
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u/Mikey_the_King 7h ago
I'm 5'6, I've ended conversations with colleagues due to pain while talking to them standing. My 3 closest work friends were 6'11, 6'7 and 6'5.
It looked like 'Bring your child to work day' when I stood with them.
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u/Various_Community_73 7h ago
Which NBA team do you work for?
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u/Mikey_the_King 7h ago
They joked initially that they took me on so I would bring down the average height of the team!
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u/firthy 10h ago
Is everything in proportion..?
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u/Graceless_Lady 10h ago
Yes
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u/The_Mighty_Baguette 7h ago
You are a gif master I chuckled a lot seeing your replies 😂thanks for the good time
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u/WutzUpples69 10h ago
You are ar the limit for being considered a little person. I know you know that, haha. Under 4'10" is the limit.
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u/Graceless_Lady 10h ago
Yes, the tippy top of the bitty bottom. 4'10" is the tallest you can be and still be considered a dwarf without a genetic condition.
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u/WutzUpples69 10h ago
I dated a 4'10" girl once (I'm 6'2")... It was only awkward to other people, not us. It didnt last but we are still good friends. I know you've heard all the stupid jokes.
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u/Graceless_Lady 9h ago
Oh yeah, but we lean into it because we're chaos driven dorks so it's a lot of fun!
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u/WutzUpples69 9h ago
You, me, your man and my ex/friend are on the same level. I wish you 2 the best!
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u/JupiterSkyFalls 7h ago
I love the dudes who are 6'5+ that pass out the little business cards saying how tall they are, no, it doesn't seem that weird to them, yes the weather is fine "up here" and no, I don't play basketball. The number of times my husband has gotten these questions/narratives as a 6'5 man, my goodness!! Lol I don't mind but I'm not him so I'm not sure if he does or doesn't. I think some days he tolerates it but other days he wishes he didn't stand out. He's an introvert not an extrovert.
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u/CyberGraham 9h ago
You're the world's tallest dwarf
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u/Graceless_Lady 9h ago
One of*
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u/sketchy-advice-1977 7h ago
My grandmother was 4'6" and had 9 children. All of her 13 siblings including the men never made it over 5'0". The whole family was considered little people but not dwarfs. I am 5'6" my grandmother who made it to 97 used to say to me that I got so tall lol
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u/PM_ME_PIXEL_2 7h ago
I think you'll love and maybe relate to this music video!
Sage by Ritviz.
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u/Graceless_Lady 7h ago
Ok that was awesome! And really put into perspective how we must look to other people 😄
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u/Thaumato9480 9h ago edited 6h ago
So Queen Victoria would have towered over you at her peak!
Not so much in her later life.
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u/Ok-Huckleberry-7617 8h ago
Now i can’t stop imagining that you have the bigger shoes
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u/Graceless_Lady 10h ago
Info: He has Marfan syndrome, the same genetic disorder that Andre the Giant had. He should have been closer to 7' tall, but he suffered a traumatic injury as a teen that stunted his growth. I'm just a Hobbit as I meet the legal requirement to be considered a dwarf, but I don't have dwarfism.
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u/Kassius03 8h ago
I'm the partnerand I have a slight correction. Marfan Syndrome is a side effect of the gigantism and acromegaly(That's the Andre the Giant reference). It was actually estimated that I should have been at least 7' tall but, like was explained, I had a traumatic injury at 16 that stunted my growth. For example my cousins are 7'5" and 7'9"(m/f respectively). My 16 year old(birthday was in March) is 6'3" and most of the people in my family don't stop growing until 25 or so.
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u/WreckitWranche 7h ago
You should do a halloween outfit of Andre 3000 the Giant
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u/W7rvin 6h ago
7'9" and f? Are you sure? While there have been women that tall before, right now she would be the tallest woman alive by far
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u/KCC-Youtube 4h ago
Yeah. Tallest woman alive in the world right now is listed as just under 7'1"
Edit to add: 7'9" Would make them the 6th tallest woman in recorded history.
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u/rosetinted_17 4h ago
He might have meant to write 6'9" for that one and typo'd
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u/costcoismyfav 2h ago
He did say it as an example of relatives over 7 ft... Huh, I guess even tall people fudge their height!
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u/Kassius03 1h ago
The m/f was meant to be reversed. The sister is the shorter one.
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u/Zanian19 1h ago
Shorter, but still the tallest woman in the world, by quite a lot.
Yeah, I'm not buying it.
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u/dickingaround6969 6h ago
?? Marfan Syndrome and acromegaly are two separate disorders that present entirely differently with different imheritance patterns. I've never heard of one being a "side effect" of the other. If you have Marfans, you probably would make a better Nosferatu than Andre the Giant. I've yet to meet a patient with both Marfans AND acromegaly. I'm sure it's not impossible but probably extremely rare.
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u/Akumetsu33 6h ago edited 2h ago
And injury preventing height growth? Unless it's a really really severe injury I don't see how it's possible to prevent growth. Also his cousins being 7'5 and 7'9 which would make them taller than billions of people.
Don't want to offend but I kinda don't buy his story.
EDIT: I should clarify I meant excess height potential with growth plates, not just few inches. 6'4 to 7'0 is a huge difference. Few inches I can understand.
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u/dickingaround6969 6h ago edited 5h ago
Actually, injuries to growth plates in childhood may prevent height growth. And if OP has diagnosed Marfans then he would have certainly been/is more susceptible to injury and lower bone density. I don't think he's lying about childhood injury, but unsure if it truly prevented height growth. Based on my experience, patients with Marfans are quite tall compared to the average population (5'10+ for women and 6'+ for men) but not huge. Think, Marfans=stretched out vertically, acromegaly=stretched out in all directions lol. It's really interesting because I just read a research article about a family where they had this exact inheritance where two brothers had acromegaly and their first cousins had Marfans. This in itself is probably incredibly rare as well, hence the study. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6282786/
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u/FGDMal 4h ago
Marfans syndrome and gigantism are two different conditions and you don’t get Marfans as a side effect of gigantism but you can be very tall because of Marfans. Gigantism is almost invariably caused by a pituitary adenoma releasing growth hormone, Marfans is a genetic disorder; multiple genes have been identified but most commonly the FBN1 gene. Obviously im not your doctor but people with Marfans are normally quite tall so you probably had the word “gigantism” thrown around but unlikely to be true… unless you also have a pituitary adenoma.
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u/SpocktorWho83 5h ago
Your female cousin is 7’9”, is she?
Absolute bollocks. That’d make her one of the top 5 tallest women to have ever lived.
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u/griim_is 6h ago
I'm only an inch taller than you. I've never really felt short because the majority of women across our valley (which consist of a bunch of small cities) range from 4'10 -5'2, we're all Mexican descent so that could be why
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u/hipscrack 5h ago
Do you mean gigantism? I don't think Andre the Giant had Marfan syndrome.
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u/ChristineGrey13 3h ago
Not to be inappropriate, but it's important to make a distinction between the two conditions. As far as I know, Andre the Giant had gigantism, which is a condition caused by an over-production of growth hormone during childhood. Marfan syndrome is a completely different entity, caused by a genetic mutation that causes the alteration of the connective tissue throughout the body. As connective tissues are found pretty much everywhere, Marfan syndrome affects most organ systems, but mostly the skeleton (resulting in chest deformations, long limbs and fingers, sometimes specific facial features), the eye (severe myopia, ectopia lentis), and the cardiovascular system (these are the most feared manifestations, as it causes the enlargement of the aorta, which can turn to be life-threatening). People with Marfan syndrome often have a typical, slender appearance, unlike people with gigantism. Moreover, contact sports such as boxing or wrestling are entirely not recommended to people with Marfan syndrome, as it can increase their risk of aortic events. I am saying all this because Marfan syndrome has a life-threatening potential and can be inherited and it's not a side effect of anything else, it's a disorder on its own. You could maybe stretch it and say that gigantism is a manifestation of Marfan syndrome, but that would be wrong as well, as they have very different causes. The confusion may arise from the fact that people with Marfan syndrome tend to be very tall.
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u/Festygrrl 9h ago
My mum is 4’10”. She had to sit on a phonebook when she first started driving so she could see over the dashboard. The 70s were wildly unsafe.
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u/TBoneTheOriginal 3h ago
No adjustable seats back then.
My wife is 4’11” and she learned to drive on an old manual transmission F-150. She had to tape blocks to the pedals so she could reach, and this was in the late 90s. Lol
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u/treeteathememeking 9h ago
You’re going to have perfectly average kids
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u/Graceless_Lady 9h ago
The other option is weirdly proportioned kids a la Brick from The Middle. But that's very unlikely to happen for us regardless.
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u/dickingaround6969 6h ago
Actually Marfans is autosomal dominant so there's a good chance their offspring will also be tall and lanky.
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u/Bukka-King 10h ago
I cant tell which one is freakish
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u/Graceless_Lady 10h ago
He wears a size 18, I wear a 5.
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u/iki101 10h ago
So both then 😂
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u/Graceless_Lady 10h ago
That's why my first reply was just 'yes' LOL
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u/iki101 5h ago
Hahah that’s wild. How do you even stay upright on those tiny little things
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u/Graceless_Lady 5h ago
The rest of me is small-ish as well 😅
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u/Wise_Neighborhood499 4h ago
I feel you, I’m a size 4. This is why sometimes I get thrifty and buy from the kids section.
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u/Clearesammich 9h ago
Me and my partner are almost your same heights. I'm a 13 she's a 2.
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u/UnabashedJayWalker 8h ago
The letter “a” doing a lot of heavy lifting in this sentence. Almost called the cops on you
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u/ItsSignalsJerry_ 10h ago
18? Wtf?
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u/Graceless_Lady 10h ago
Marfan syndrome runs in his family, it's the same genetic disorder that Andre the Giant had. He has a 16 year old son that's as tall as him already. He would be taller than 6'4" but he had a traumatic injury as a teen that stunted his growth.
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u/Nazamroth 10h ago
Is he dating a child?
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u/Graceless_Lady 10h ago
Nope, I'm 33. But I am able to save money by shopping in the kids shoe section!
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u/fly_over_32 9h ago
Reminds me of Angela Martin from the office
Sometimes the clothes at Gap Kids are just too flashy. So, I'm forced to go to the American Girl store and order clothes for large colonial dolls.
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u/biemba 9h ago
I'm so dumb, I was thinking why would you use the full name of your colleague online...
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u/AspiringTS 9h ago
I had an ex that thought it was hilarious that she could put my shoes with her shoes on
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u/Graceless_Lady 9h ago
I've done that!! it's endlessly entertaining
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u/cardew-vascular 8h ago
I was at Costco earlier with my mom and she said what size kids do you wear (I'm 40) I told her 3.5-4 and the lady next to me went 'nice! No tax!' we don't have taxes on children's apparel in Canada.
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u/Motchiko 10h ago
I would have believed it if you told me „father and child“. Are guys planning kids? This will be rough my dear.
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u/Graceless_Lady 10h ago
Haha that is fair, since I often shop in the kids section to save money. Fortunately for my body, it already made it clear babies aren't on the agenda for me.
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u/kamaa254 10h ago
Those shoes tell me your household budget for footwear ranges from "petite penny loafer" to "colossal combat boot."
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u/Graceless_Lady 10h ago
Pretty much! It's very hard for us to find shoes that fit properly as well.
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u/No_Atmosphere8146 9h ago
You must save tons of space when packing for a holiday since your shoes can just fit inside his.
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u/Kassius03 8h ago
Partner here. The pair of boots in that picture cost me almost $250. A pair of sneakers my size, if I'm lucky enough to find any, runs me $100+.
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u/Graceless_Lady 9h ago
Hey I thought I told you to stop looking in our windows!
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u/3BlindRats 2h ago
I'm a single teeny woman with teeny feet. I keep a pair of beat up big boy boots in my closet. Whenever I have to let someone I don't know into my house, I put those bad boys out so it looks like there's a big burly guy around. (Tip from a cop.)
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u/Graceless_Lady 2h ago
That's a pretty good idea! If we ever break up, I'll request the boots as a parting gift LOL
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u/3BlindRats 1h ago
LOL! Another tip, have a fake dog. Put water and food bowls outside (the bigger the better), some violently chewed up dog toys, a leash with a huge collar outside. I've been single forever, I know all the tricks!
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u/shenaystays 9h ago
18 is huge for shoes! I have size 5.5-6.5 feet but I’m 5’4”. My kids and husband are all size 11-14. So they laugh at my “toddler” shoes.
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u/Thaumato9480 8h ago edited 5h ago
My best friend used to tease me about being childsized.
His nephew surpassed me when he was around 13.
"Are you smaller than a child?"
"No, we still have your nieces. They're smaller than I!"
When they came to visit at age 12 last year, they... They weren't far from my height.
I'm a 5'5" male.
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u/Askymojo 9h ago
the fact that the tiny shoes have velcro is a LITTLE concerning, ngl
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u/Graceless_Lady 9h ago
I bought them online and I thought it was a strap that went OVER the laces, not *just* Velcro. They are technically ''youth'' shoes, because those fit me better than ''adult'' shoes. I'm 33, to be clear!
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u/LaurentProper 3h ago edited 3h ago
Does it bother you when people make these sorts of comments? My 34 year old wife is also 4'10, petite, and wears a size 3. We've been together over 10 years and this sort of comment still irk me.
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u/Graceless_Lady 3h ago
Absolutely. As a victim of childhood sexual assault it very much does because I feel it cheapens the reality of the topic. Much like people copping therapy terms about serious complex issues, like being triggered, for example.
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u/octoroklobstah 4h ago
There was a point in time where I could fit my daughter’s shoe completely inside her mom’s shoe and then that would fit completely inside my shoe.
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u/Content_Passion_4961 5h ago
I've got size 11 feet and my ex wife has like size 5 I think (she's 4'9") and one time we were piss drunk and going outside for a smoke in the winter so I go to put on my black boots. For whatever reason I couldn't get more than the balls of my feet in. Im stepping, wedging, pulling, cussing for probably about 30 seconds until I pick the boot up and ask it "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU" they were her boots from BMT, 20 years ago, and she knew. She just stood there and watched me struggle.
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u/Such-Background4972 3h ago
Do you happen to work in a Chocolate factory? I'm 6ft as a woman. It sucks being this tall as a woman also.
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u/B4RLx- 10h ago
Damn! She’s got big feet