Guys really do lie about their height!

Tabitha and her friends are not sure what it is, but they have encountered a portion of men that lie about their height.  Whether its in person and you ask them the question or whether its on an online dating profile.  They seem to add a few inches, without fail.  Tabitha can verify this accusation from a recent experience.  She is collecting data points on dating, and of course enjoying the free drinks and tasty meals along the way.  But in all frankness, she does want to find a special someone even if she has to weed through the swamps to get to him.

Here is the scenario, his profile pictures look good.  He seems dapper, successful, interesting and tall enough (5 foot 10 inches or so he claims).

Hair just blown dry, bouncy, shiny, cute mini skirt, fabulous 3.5 inch heels and feeling good as I approach the meeting spot for this particular date.  A public place, in the middle of a park no less is the spot where I am supposed to meet this dark haired man.  I approach and upon seeing him, all I can feel is the glaring instinct to run!  He is probably 5 foot 7 or 5 foot 8 at most, because in my heels I am feeling like I am looking down at this pathetic little man.  Of course, instead of running I decide to be charitable and stay, only to suffer from self inflicted misery for the next 1.5 hours.  Not only is he shorter than what he says, but he is wearing awful elevator shoes with buckles, bells, whistles, well maybe not whistles, but certainly it was a disaster for the eyes. Then, the jeans were a light wash and baggy when baggy is not cool anymore.  I am not talking about a nice, loose boyfriend fit rugged jean look, I am talking about MC Hammer with semi-pegged baggy in the thighs ugly wash jeans.  Tabitha tried not to look.  Then the shirt, it is almost too horrendous to describe.  It appeared soiled around the neck area but she could not tell for sure, and he caught her looking a few too many times so she had to refrain.  It was a snap up kind of style with 1980's red, blue and black geometric shapes and little speckles.  If in any way it sounds retro cool, let us just tell you that it was not at all cool.  It reminded Tabitha of the ugly, cheap Sears type of bed sheets one may buy back in 1984 that were made from low grade cotton, in a 80 thread count kind of way.  BAD!

So I suppose if he was drop dead gorgeous and stylish and funny, and 5 foot 8 it may not matter, but considering he lied about his height and showed up in a horrendous outfit, well that is just unforgivable.