Notes on Being Very Tall
There are the questions, principally, “How tall are you?” and “Do you play basketball?” There are also a lot of shared observations. People I’ve never met feel compelled to tell me about the tallest member of their families. Women especially like to tell me about their fathers, husbands and brothers, the tallest people they’ve dated, their tallest colleagues. The disagreements are more frustrating, when someone I don’t know stops me on the street, asks how tall I am, then tells me I’m wrong, because in their eyes I’m a little taller, a little shorter.
