Short People: The Masters of Stealth

Being short can be a challenge when you are constantly disappearing behind tall people, but sometimes this can be pretty entertaining. When you disappear in a crowd, you usually scare people when you appear again. I scare people on a regular basis with out even trying.

Short people have quieter footsteps, because they are not very high off the ground. That makes them almost as sneaky as a ninja. When you are short and quiet, you can literally pop up anywhere, and you will at least startle the people who didn't realize you were there.

I have scared all of my roommates multiple times. The most common way is when I come home at night, and they don't see me, because it's dark, and I'm not very loud when I am coming home. They don't usually hear me come into a room, so when they turn around, and all of a sudden I am there, they usually are a bit surprised.

It happens enough that my roommate said that I should start wearing a bell, so she would at least have some sort of warning that I was there. I don't mean to startle people, but it can be pretty entertaining when they realize that I am there.

Sometimes I like to see just how long it takes people to realize that I am there. People have had full conversations around me, before finally realizing I was there. It happened all the time when I worked at a diner by my house. I don't like to just stand around when it's slow, so I usually found something to fill or clean, and it usually took awhile for them to find me, because I'm quiet and don't take up a ton of floor space.

If you want to have fun with this, you could intentionally scare people, by popping up in different places, but you don't have to go overboard, and do it everywhere you go, because then it becomes obnoxious. I don't intentionally do it, because when I am actually trying to sneak up on people, they usually see me coming.

There are some pretty good perks to being small and stealthy. People will generally think you are very polite, because you aren't overly loud. You won't get in the way too much, because of your lack of height. You can sneak in and out of parties, and events without people noticing that you left, which can be helpful if you need to step out and answer a call or have something that you need to leave for.

So next time you are wondering where your vertically impaired friend has disappeared, just remember that they are short, and they will show up, just maybe not at the moment you are expecting them to.

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