I was a height-finder and predictor operator on an anti-aircraft battery.
I was always picked first for a team and, despite my height, I was a good basketball player.
Some years ago, and at a time when the equal opportunities climate was at its steamy height, I was a senior teacher working with a head to shortlist a candidate for a new teaching job in the school.
Class distinctions are less hardened today than they were when I was a student at Oxford at the height of the Thatcher-era "Brideshead Revisited" chic.
"We do that, too," he said, pointing past a line of startlingly tall evergreens that were about my height when I was a boy.
"I was a very fearful kid -- I was afraid of the dark, I was afraid of heights," he says.
Without heels, I'm a very bog-standard height – but right now, that's just fine, because no one else is wearing heels on the front row either.
I am a big proponent of height in hair.
The people who had the gene mutation tended to be in the severely obese category, which means that they have a body mass index of 35 or higher (BMI is a ratio of weight to height).
I'm a little bit spooked by heights, I guess.
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