Oct 27, 2009
Evidence that everyone intimidates me
When I meet online acquaintances in person, they’re almost always shorter than I pictured.
Apparently, I imagine everyone is taller than me.
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What size am I?
Maybe you should tell everyone how tall you are so they can let you know where you stand.
I met you at T4G 2008. And for the record, I always imagine everyone is taller than you, too.
I’m George Nelson! And I’m 79 1/2 feet tall!
That’s Baby-face Nelson.
Who said that? What slanderizing son…
I’ve seen the movie a few too many times. Care for some gopher?
no thanks delmar a third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite with out bedding her back down.
Evidence that you intimidate me: I have spotted you a couple times at BBC and DG events, but haven’t swung by to say hi.
You are taller than me.
(For the record, each time you were already in a conversation or otherwise uninterruptable).
I fear we traumatized you with the permanent growth chart penciled on the pantry door. Then to top it off (so to speak), your baby brother outgrew you.
I love your mom’s comments on here. It’s always so funny to read her reactions to your statements.
For the record, when I met you I think I thought you would be taller. Now when I see you though, I wonder if you know who I am. The dreaded, “Do I need to introduce myself again? I better, because I’m sure he doesn’t remember.”
However, I did my encouraging best by staying shorter than all my sons.
JP
I’m used to picturing people as shorter than me. At 6’4″ that’s really just good sense. I’m still convinced most people are smarter than me.
I’m kinda like Joey on Friends when he can only afford the “V” encyclopedia, just hoping people bring up conversation about things I know about.
Wanna talk about volcanoes?
Absolutely agree. I saw you but didn’t meet you at Cultivate yesterday, and you’re nowhere near the ogre I had imagined you to be.
Also, Jon Acuff is a lot shorter than me. Didn’t see that one coming either.
I may be a bit taller, but I’m just a big teddy bear. You can’t find me intimidating. My wife laughs when I try to look tough.
My evidence that everyone intimidates me: I never answer the phone if I don’t know the person and rarely ever call back. More evidence is when I see people I talk to online I look the other way so that way they won’t recognize me and realize the time they have wasted talking to me.
LOLOL! Thanks A LOT!
And don’t forget, chubbier, too. :)
When I saw you your hair was so much longer than I imagined, I didn’t recognise you.
PS: Matt Chandler is taller than everyone in person.
Glad I met you in person first. I’d hate to break the mold.
That’s right, Kevin! This post immediately called to mind the conversation we had at CWC with you and Drew Goodmanson and it felt like we were in the shadows of the Two Towers. You two are freakishly tall…
By “freakishly” you obviously mean “exceptionally gifted at being…”. It is the same way that you often are heard saying “Kevin is freakishly strategic thinker.” Most people snicker at you for saying it that way, but I know what you mean.
I’m with Drew B. all the way! 6’3″, and convinced that everyone is smarter than me. Thats why I didn’t give the blog site!
My hubby tells me he met you today. He’s kind of tall.
By the way, you blessed us both by your kind gesture at lunch. Seriously. I’m sitting over here in Ohio praying for God to provide for our family. Never thought for a second He’d answer my prayer up in Chicago via that off-the-wall 22-words guy.
Thank you, Abraham. Praying God heaps blessings all over the Pipers.
i do the same thing! but what’s really shocking is when you meet someone sitting down and then when they stand up they unfurl into a giant.
come to think of it. i picture you and molly both being tall. am i wrong?
molly? tall? that’s a funny thought. no. she’s just the right height. not tall. not short.
why am i answering this? i think i was just tickled at the idea of molly being tall.
Won’t be a problem here Abraham, unless you are shorter than 5’1″!
I think it is a psychological ‘celebrity effect’ (which is referenced in Braveheart during ‘Freedom!” his speech to the army). I think movie theaters have enhanced this illusion optically, as we look at these actors on the big screen, and then the actors go on TV or pose for photos, so by transtivity, they all seem tall.
The incident that cracked the lens for me was when my wife and I were in Bloomingdales about 15 years ago and Julia Roberts literally walked into my wife, and they were eye-to-eye. My wife is 5′ 6″.
A few folks look taller in person (Peyton Manning comes to mind), but most are much smaller. I just walked by Campbell Brown and Gabriel Byrne last Saturday, and both seemed shorter in person. Same goes for Gwyneth Paltrow walked by my parked car last month. I’ve been to kiddie birthday parties with Sarah Jessica Parker and Edie Falco, and they are very petite. Even Hugh Grant, who I walked past the elevators in my office building is fairly short, and I am slightly under 6 feet, so I am close to average in height.