Short people - do you?

[Miss Chicken]

I have just been watching a video in which a woman tried to prevent another woman from leaving a shopping mall carpark because the first woman objected to the second woman’s son standing on the bottom shelf to reach a Gatorade on the top shelf.

So I am asking short people here if they ever step on the bottom shelf to reach something on the top shelf?

 

[auntiehill]

I have. If the bottom shelf is empty and I need something on the top, I'll put the toe of my shoe on the lip of the shelf to boost myself up. And I'm not that short either---5' 6". The grocery stores make the top shelf too high.

About that video--that woman having a hissy-fit is a psychopath. He's a child, reaching for something. It's not the end of the world. She should've been charged for harassing that mother and her son.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

I've helped so many people over the years to reach something on the top shelf that now if I notice that things are too far back from the front edge I move them forward.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I am only 159cm (about 5 ft 2) so I used to do it quite often. Nowadays I order most of my groceries online so if I do actually do go to the supermarket it is usually only for bread, milk and fresh produce so the height of top shelf is rarely a problem.

however if there was someone tall enough nearby I used to ask for help before using the shelf to boost me up.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I'm actually on the tall side, and I've still done that, when the only available items are set too far back on the top shelf. And sometimes it's *still* not enough.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I'm 6'6" so back when I was healthy I could reach most of the stuff on the top shelf, but some things in the back were still hard to grab without potentially knocking things over.

I was frequently asked to grab stuff off the top for other customers as I passed them though.

 

[Velocity]

I'm about 5 feet tall but I'm also old, so I never stand on anything like that, I just find a taller person and ask for help. Can't take a chance on a broken hip. No one has ever turned me down.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I've average white male height and I will say, just ask me to reach something for you, I'm happy to.

 

[KimMH]

Five feet-nothin’ and ask for help if it is nearby but have resorted to stepping on the bottom shelf too.

 

[sevenstars]

Yes, I step on the shelf if I need to. I'll get help, but sometimes I'm sick of asking for it, when things are ridiculously out of reach.
I'm 5'0" -- but of course, I'm not as light as I used to be.

 

[May 20]

Yes, of course. At 5'4'', I sometimes need the boost. But I don't do it as much as I used to. I'm more willing to hunt for a clerk to climb a stepladder for me than I used to be.

I've not seen the video. In the scenario described, I wouldn't stop a person in a parking lot to correct his/her child for something the child did in the store. I might, in the moment, say something in the aisle if I believed the child was in danger of pulling something off onto his head.

 

[Non Sync]

As a long time member of Runts Lib, I propose laws that prohibit store shelves above 5 feet (1.5 meters).

 

[auntiehill]

Here's an article about the incident in question. The whole event seems like a racist tirade against a black family by some crazed white woman. HERE.

 

[StarCruiser]

Yep ... another "Karen". It's like they're all coming out of the woodwork now - like roaches.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Personally, I don't, although ironically with the advent of big box stores, stores in general seem to have made shelves even higher and harder to reach. Regular grocery stores seem to be much better with that, where most of them, even the highest shelves still at eye-level. I sometimes go with my Mom and while she's taller than I am, she still has trouble at times. But in general, it does seem odd that while there are less and less people working that could tentatively help, that shelves are made harder to access. I guess some of us are going to have to learn how to use stilts

I had an annoying grocery store incident last year in which a couple brought their two dogs into a store while we were shopping. They weren't small dogs, but big dogs that they had on a long length of leash, and they weren't service dogs because they seemed to react to everyone in near them, going this way and that, and I had nearly tripped via almost getting tangled.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I'm 5' 10", and I've had to (carefully) stand on the lower shelf in a megamarket to reach the items on the back of top shelves.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Here's an article about the incident in question. The whole event seems like a racist tirade against a black family by some crazed white woman. HERE.

That's some powerful racism to actually use your baby as a barrier to prevent a family from pulling out of a parking space. But at least it was over something hugely consequential, like a child stepping on a shelf to grab something up high for his mother. Scandalous.

 

[Doom Shepherd]

I’m 6’0”, and I’ve had to stand on a bottom shelf.

I love being asked to grab stuff for other people. Makes me feel useful. Just as long as they don’t assume I’m an employee.

 

[KimMH]

It’s weird how often I am asked if I work at stores or for help finding things. I hope I look friendly or competent or both. I dunno.

ETA: maybe it’s because I climb on the shelves lol.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I always do it, though I worry they will tip over. I'm 5'1 so a lot of stuff is too high. Though I do most of my shopping online these days because it's so much easier.