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It really started bothering me when my brother started growing taller than me and he was four years younger than me. People who did not know us well would call me Timmy’s little sister. Excuse me, but I’m 4 years older! I’m don’t know who else is short in my family besides my mom and I. My mom was adopted, so I don’t know half of what I am. I’ve come into liking of my height now.

 Thanks!

I feel so tall, I’m 5’4″!  I stopped growing when I was about 16.  I always liked being short.  My boyfriend is pretty short for a guy, only about 5’7″ maybe 5’8″.  Perfect height for me!  

Linde said

sky090909 said
It really started bothering me when my brother started growing taller than me and he was four years younger than me. People who did not know us well would call me Timmy’s little sister. Excuse me, but I’m 4 years older! I’m don’t know who else is short in my family besides my mom and I. My mom was adopted, so I don’t know half of what I am. I’ve come into liking of my height now.

 

My 3 year younger sister is quite a bit taller than me as well and people often get us mixed up. They’re so confused and embarrassed when we tell them I’m actually the older one. People never guess my age right anyway. They often think I’m 16. Highlight was when I actually turned 15 or 16 and my neighbour asked me if my parents had already picked a new school for me. She thought I was 12

I don’t know why people think I’m so young though. It’s not like I dress like a child or like I’m THAT short or something. Maybe I’ve got a babyface.

Let’s hope it’ll stay this way though, so that when I’m in my 40s, people’ll think I’m still in my twenties!

I use to get that a lot too when I was a teenager. 

One of my pet peeves is people liking stuff just because its popular. Its ok to like popular things I like The Beatles, Harry Potter, and Glee for example. But liking it cause its the new flavor of the month or everyone else likes them I hate. My in-laws are really bad about this. My husband and my brother-in-law were talking about The Walking Dead. My brother-in-law didn’t know it was comic before it was a show. Even I knew that & I hate the show! He started watching Game of Thrones…because everyone else is. My mother in law bought 3D tv because her sister bought one. Funny thing is, she doesn’t know how to use the 3D capabilities. People seeing the final Harry Potter just because its the final Harry Potter even if they never seen any of the other movies or read the books! Then asking stupid questions during the movie! I could go on, but you probably get my point. As I said before its ok to like popular things, but like it for what it is. 

I share LongHairedLady’s peeve — people who don’t acknowledge favors or even little niceties.  There are many types of examples, but one that annoys me is when someone’s walking right behind you, you go to a door (front entrance of an apartment building, or door of a store or restaurant, etc.), and you hold the door open for them either after you’ve gone through, or even before — and they say absolutely nothing.  Not even mumble a “thanks”.

It’s gotten, over the years, to where I can sort of tell what type of person is going to do this.  Usually, the more attractive a person is, the less likely they will say thank you.  Especially attractive women.  That would make a good study for Sociology.

I don’t really like my neighbors, either. They’re loud and obnoxious, the father insists on riding his motorcycle very early in the morning, the little kid comes into our yard and they don’t even care, their two dogs are loud and obnoxious and mean, their two cats “do their business” in our yard and they don’t care, they blow leaves into our yard, and they let the water run out of their rain gutter into our yard, which has created a dip in our driveway.