"It is better to have loved a short person then to have never to have loved a tall."
This morning I woke up to find an e-mail in my Yahoo account from somebody I didn't recognize. Normally I just write it off as spam and move on, but it looked like she might have just sent it to the wrong person and somehow managed to send it to me.
It was from N with the subject line, "tall women."
The fact that I'm incredibly short and had an e-mail with the subject "tall women" in my mailbox was funny. So I opened it and read:
"as a 5ft tall woman i find that most tall women try to use their height to bully women my size. do you all agree? case in point.....
The 2005 Texas women's volleyball team entered this season tied as the nation's tallest team, with an average height of 6-foot-2-inches on the front line. When you hear the phrase 'Everything is bigger in Texas,' these girls mean it. The two towering freshmen Paolini and Feist raise the bar - literally - for the Longhorns, both standing 6-foot-5-inches tall, while the two shortest players on the team, Alyson Jennings and Kiley Hall, stand a mere 5-foot-9-inches. Jennings says she receives the brunt of the team's physical prowess. 'I sometimes get called 'shorty' by the other players. The worst thing is that I'm so much shorter that I sometimes get elbowed in the head when we celebrate in a huddle.'
N"
This was clearly not meant for me. I responded anyway.
"Not that your words aren't important, but who are you?
Sam
PS...I'm also 5ft tall, and it's not a problem. I actually prefer to be short. Then again, I don't play volleyball."
I should have never gave her my opinion. Now we're actually having an e-mail conversation about how women are shrinking these days and only a select few seem to be blessed with the tall gene or have been drinking some kind of special fruit drink to add a couple extra inches.
It is sort of interesting though and kind of funny. I think that I'm going to keep on talking to her anyway just for my own entertainment.