my bf calls helping short people get stuff "The Giants' Creed" and treats it as a sacred obligation
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My husband sent me this and I'm wondering why she's still upset when it sounds like the person accepted her no and went to get someone else for help. Are tall people really that offended if a shorter person asks for help? Because I will ask tall people if something is out of reach
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8bfyS-S-IJs
Gods, but there are some difficult people out there, mainly american it seems.
A significant number of those people had "leftist" in their bio when I went to block them.
The amount of racism in this thread is pretty fucky
Thank you for speaking up.
I also make sure to move items to the front so they can be more easily reached.
But I'm not going to judge the person who was annoyed by the asking.
also I suppose for workers to check in or out of stock on the floor
A friend is 5'-nothing, she depends on people to help her get items that stores have placed out of reach.
The OP is an asshole.
"You may not ask a short person if they need help, they may like to do a shelf scramble themselves. But if you are asked for help, you must assist. This is the Law of the Giants"
down for people every day given the opportunity, just for the dopamine hit.
I expect someone in the comments has pointed out the origin of Jack Reacher’s name, but just in case:
I’m 6’ 4” and I’ve been asked this dozens of times over the years. Sometimes I proactively volunteer! Always a privilege and a joy to give someone the simplest of help. Costs me nothing.
I've had any number of friends who've had their day *ruined* by someone who decided to "help" them with something unexpectedly, with results varying from injury to hundreds of dollars in damage.
Really?
"It's not that you're height challenged, it's that your roll-on weighs 50 lbs!"
Doing things like that can make a whole day just a little better.
Many thanks for the service of those who abide by "The Giants' Creed"!
One really nice thing about using a cane is that I now have a 3-foot arm extension with a rubber grippy hook on the end that I can use to snag stuff off shelves now that I can't climb them safely anymore
(In my case, just tall-er, as I'm 5'8")
“Ma’am, your happiness is all the thanks I need.”
But I have definitely looked around at who was near me and asked someone, "Hey, could you come be tall for me?"
(bangs on a massive gong that for us is a dinner plate)
GIANTS! WE MUST CAST OUT ONE OF OUR OWN!
~signed, a short 🥰
The number of people prattling on about “my tall boyfriend, etc” completely missed the point.
tall people out there. because i can’t reach NUFFIN. 😂
https://bsky.app/profile/scottsigler.bsky.social/post/3lenotm2sc223
My suspicion is that anyone who reacts this way is the kind of person who feels zero obligation to person whose name they do not already know.
And fuck those people.
Last week, an older woman asked me to get something off a high shelf for her after she watched me climb them for something I needed. I gladly got her item.
You say someone go find someone who’s compensated to reach the top shelf
Then you get mad when they do.
Was she… was she just being tall in public in hopes someone offered her a job stocking shelves? Does she now she can hand in an application?
The OP is in flagrant violation of Article 16 and will likely receive punishment by her chieftain, as per Giant customs
“Actually I just couldn’t reach that jar of peaches, but you know what, never mind, I’m good, I’ll figure it out.”
I did have someone tell me I had to help them once. I said I don't know where it was and they kept telling me I worked there and had to help even though I didn't.
As others said, she asked for a favor and accepted a 'no,' this is fine.
Dated a girl once who was amazed I used the cabinets above the refrigerator
🙏🫡
Heck, the lady could have done it a lot easier than making the post complaining about it.
And felt better for it, too.
It’s just being polite to help people who ask for it
I can’t imagine getting angry about that, but I guess that’s one of the many reasons I divorced my ex husband.
srsly, wtf kind of self-regarding foul-breathed shitbag person brings out their 'straight face' and responds like that?
I love being approached by a stranger, just to be asked for some reaching help.
Shit like that can really turn my day around.
If I'm trying to pick up baby Tylenol after my first job so that I can run it home to the sitter before I go to my second, no, I can't help you now.
If it's my day off and shit is sorted, sure. I can help.
Unless you're an a-hole about it, of course.
Instant tears.
Luckily, grandpa (my father) was right there, and so, as a grown-ass adult, I was once more asking daddy to get down a toy for me.