I'm Sick of "Short" Jokes

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🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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I'm Sick of "Short" Jokes - Mike is short and wants to know how to respond to people's rude comments about short men. - Dr. Laura: Reply with, “I'm not sure that was a thoughtful thing to say to me.” | To participate on the radio program; call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment - https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment. Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious XM.
0:10.0	I'm 11. Mike, welcome to the program. Hello, how are you? Good. What's up?
0:16.0	So I've been a short man my whole life obviously. I'm 65. I've been barely five four. And I'm just after all these years I'm finally sick of all the comments people make about short man or eat.
0:29.0	It's directly to me or about how they wouldn't want to go out with a short man or things along that line and for my entire life.
0:37.0	But now I'm really looking for some kind of an answer, but I was I told the screener. I don't want to make a scene about it like room the whole party because people for some reason of always felt it's okay to speak badly about short man like you would never say something about that people or other thing, but that's some kind of a physical thing.
0:58.0	That you can comment about with the unity I feel so I was looking for I've been thinking about a lot what can I say when somebody says all my daughters at this place but all the men there are short she doesn't want to go out with any of them.
1:12.0	Even though it's not pertain to me it's still rude comment when they're talking to a five foot four man. What do you think doctor or one sentence came to mind a bunch of others came to and I push them aside.
1:24.0	Because I liked this one thing because I'm on my being human kick today the answer is I'm not sure that was a thoughtful thing to say to me.
1:38.0	I like that.
1:40.0	I'm not sure that was a thoughtful thing to say to me beautiful beautiful because it hits the human part and the word thoughtful is important because people don't think.
2:01.0	It's actually perfect. I knew you would help me. Thank you so much.
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