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Height is pretty highly correlated to income. Employees rate taller managers higher. In other words, there’s clear economic disadvantages to being short as a male.

I'm at about 5.8 1/2 - 5.9 now, and I was about 5.10 when I was young, but 46 years of picking up and carrying boxes of tile, rolls of carpet, and moving furniture has had its effect.

I am 6' 5" and it is hard enough to buy clothes.

4winds;
Top of the morning to you sir, I hope your section of the great state of Georgia is getting seasonally appropriate and tolerable weather and that you're well.

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it and the chuckle.

A long time hunting partner who is tall enough that on occasion when we're glassing has stood behind me and rested his binos on my cowboy hat also has a patchy beard and mustache.

On the Honda S2000 subject, I thought I wanted one when I was hunting for a midlife crisis red ragtop, but settled on a 40th Anniversary Mustang because while I could get into an S2000, getting out was a 5 minute task!!

Frankly I'm not sure who those things are designed for other than small jockey's perhaps?

Maybe not all the model years were quite that tight, but the one I tried was much, much to small and as mentioned I'm 5'6" on a tall day and about 150lb.

As you've said its a trade off, so bigger folks can pack more, but will wear out things like hiking boots and vehicle and equipment seats noticeably faster than smaller folks.

For a last chuckle, I worked for awhile with a wonderful fellow named Wayne at a small cabinet shop where we did everything from build to install. I want to say Wayne was about 6'2" or so and while he'd tease me about my height for sure, when it was time to install the Lazy Susan hardware that was my job and I'd hold the upper boxes while he put the mounting screws in because he could reach.

I will say that back in the day when we had horses and did a fair bit of packing and horse back hunting, sometimes I had to reposition Carly the Appy a few times on the side of the mountain as it was just a little too far up to load her!



That's me finishing up loading my tall hunting partner's only horse hunt mulie buck.

He and the horses just didn't gel either, though he did try, I'll give him that.

Best to you all today.

Dwayne

I’m happy at 6’1. The world isnt designed for big n tall people.