Ugly Tall People

Having been an “un-tall” person for my whole life, I understand all that goes with that.   For example, I need a ladder when changing bulbs in the various light sources around my house.  I don’t know if the top of my refrigerator is dusty.  I cannot dunk a basketball.  My Christmas tree does not have an angel on top.

I have noticed, of course, that tall people stand-out in crowds.  An example of that is a really tall young man who works at the checkout line in one of our local grocery stores.  He catches my attention right away if he is working on the day I go shopping.  He stands out like a stalk of corn in a row of carrots.  I am guessing that he has compiled a list of advantages that he can attribute to his height.  Vanishing in a crowd is not one of them.

I suppose he has an angel on his Christmas tree.

But I have also noted this about tall people: ugly tall people are (because of their physical prominence) at least twenty percent uglier than standard-issue ugly people.  

We have that going for us.  

--Mitchell Hegman