people laughed at my small hands and bone-thin wrists but look who they turn to when they need someone to reach up inside vending machines and retrieve their bounty
lol this reminds me of this Mongolian dude, Bao Xishun, was like, a herdsman, got recognized for being one of the tallest people anywhere, real tall and skinny guy. Anyway, one day there’s these two dolphins dying from plastic shards in their stomachs, and what you do about that is reach your arm down there and remove them, but nobody’s arms could reach. So somebody goes “hey, I heard about this guy, arms probably long enough”
and that’s how this dude was was herding livestock in the middle of Mongolia one day and this helicopter lands and some people run out to him like “sir, we need you to get in this helicopter and come with us right away,” and they fly him in to the aquarium and they’re like, “cool, now just... reach down the throats of these two dolphins, you’re the only one who can save their lives.”
and he did. The dolphins lived. And they flew Bao Xishun back to his herd. What a fucking weird ass day that dude had, right?
I hope Bao Xishun realizes that he is a modern day folk hero.
the man, the myth, the legend
adding on to this that all my short kings need to understand that if you want to work in construction/landscaping/etc you are so fucking valuable. You know why? because some giant-ass cis man can’t get up on the eaves of a broken roof safely to do repairs. He can’t get down in a clean septic tank to check the seals before they bury it. Small hands are useful for fixing fucking everything. Masonry? shit, y'all are made for it. Farming and animal husbandry? the animals spook way less. You have an incredible advantage.
I skipped my senior year of HS and was hired to do exactly this shit as a 5’ tall 120lb human bc my boss was fucking practical and y'all…best year of my life.