The Saga of Moderately Tall People...

Tall people get the sympathy as we watch them try to enter the door. Short people get all the benes by having everything well within reach.... While moderately tall people get neither sympathy or accommodations.

Moderately tall people are between 6 foot and 6 '2" 3/4. Six foot three is considered tall. If someone who is 6'3 or 4" even if they are 300 pounds, they are forgiven for their girth. Take William Howard Taft, for example. Yes, big, "barrel chested" but "He was tall first."  Moderately tall people don't fit into the regular chair or desk or computer station; nor do they fit into a designer slim fit. Then they are called overweight or out of shape for not fitting into the typical desk or toilet. These items are set up for people well under 6' and have the specs drawn up by the State of CA as official for the greatest good for the greatest number.

On typical coach flight, my body is in a permanent state of rigor mortis. When I stand to stretch, the steward or stewardess tells me to go sit down. They don't care if I became stiff and die--just die in your seat so we can get our cart of garbage down the aisle.

The typical sedan is no relief--especially for the person sitting behind my seat. They better be a little person. Otherwise, if I have to move my driver seat toward the front, I won't be able to drive safely.

The hotel room standard queen bed is another horrible inconvenience. We moderately tall have to sleep not just in the middle of the bed but diagonally. My body becomes the perfect geometry assignment, separating a rectangle into two perfect right triangles. I may have earned an A in geometry but I earn an F with my spouse for taking up "the whole bed."

Thus, in any typical situation at work in a desk, chair, plane, car, hotel, etc. we moderately tall people get the abuse: "If you weren't so overweight or out of shape... or if you were taller... or did you drink your mother's milk--why are you sort of tall but hunched over... oh yes, your Dad was hunched but not tall nor overweight..." they say, "Look in the mirror. You are getting fat."
I look in the mirror but it is too short:  all I see is my neck. Even the mirror was placed on the wall for shorter people. The criticisms are continual, the solutions few, and the sympathy nonexistent.