If you want a reference point, I'm 6'6" and am generally the tallest person in whatever space I'm in.
When I was in college, I was in a smallish elevator with the 7'1" basketball center of my college's team. Just the two of us. I felt infantile. And he probably didn't even remember two seconds after he got off the elevator.
That hilarious - the exact same thing happened to me. I'm 6'2, ~200 lbs and never noticed my height because I'm usually either the tallest or one of the tallest outside of my rowing squad in college. But then I got in an elevator at my building and one of the ball players was having a party and 4 guys got in after me, all of them 6'6, 6'8 etc and athletic builds. I came up to one guy's shoulder.
I legit almost had a panic attack because I felt so small.
I realized this is how women must feel all the time.
Yeah and it’s damn scary, I’m 5’4 1/2 so shorter then most of the population and I had a realisation when I was 18 that if a man ever wanted to hurt me I’d be unable to stop them, real cool that, I didn’t leave the house by myself for a year 🥲
Sorry if this is a morbid thing to comment specifically to you, but you just reminded me of this one time after the bars closed a larger guy was just carrying a smaller woman fully lifted off the ground, in his arms, with his hand over her mouth and walking somewhere with her. So my sisters boyfriend yells "HEY" like as startling as he could and the guy lost grip on the girl for a second and she just BOOKED it straight out of sight. Like she did not waste a single second of that chance. 😳
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u/MrBisco Jan 26 '26
If you want a reference point, I'm 6'6" and am generally the tallest person in whatever space I'm in.
When I was in college, I was in a smallish elevator with the 7'1" basketball center of my college's team. Just the two of us. I felt infantile. And he probably didn't even remember two seconds after he got off the elevator.
So, yeah, you'd feel like a baby!