Yesterday while I was at work, a mother along with her daughter asked me for help to find slacks for her son. They told me he was around 6'6" and they didn't know his size. I know from the beginning that was gonna be a challenge and they would not keep the slacks because of how hard was gonna be finding the right size without the son being there.
While we were discussing what inseam size they should get I told them that since he was skinny and they thought he was around a 36 waist, a 34 inseam should be easy to find with that waist size but 36 inseam and above was more often found in a Big and Tall section with 42+ waist. They were thinking that 34 inseam might not be long enough for him and I told them if they want they can take it home for him to try it and return it if it doesn't work. In that moment I did something I was not expecting it was gonna become kind of embarrassing, I told them I am 6'1 and showed them how big the pants looked next to me. But the mother started laughing and said I was not 6'1 and her daughter said yeah there is no way because I am 5'10 and we are at the same eye level. I looked at her realized how tall she was and it was hard to say if she was my height or taller. In that moment I fixed my posture and there was no difference, I looked down at her feet to see if she was wearing heels or something that give her a height boost but no, she was wearing flats. I think to myself there is no way this girl is 5'10, maybe she is younger than she looks and outgrew that height and she doesn't know. At that point I dropped the subject and didn't talk about height with them. I kept thinking about that encounter until I got home.
I am from a Hispanic country where growing up I always used to stand out because of my height, there the average height is smaller than in USA. So I am not used to people saying I am not that tall. When I got my id in America it said 6'1" in it and I went with it. Since I was more used to the metric system back then I didn't question it, so I have been saying I am 6'1 for years. That changed yesterday night. When I got home I decided to measure myself using tape measure and barefoot. And to my surprise I was only 6 feet tall.
One inch is not a big difference but sometimes it felt like that was the only thing that would help me when dating. I am debating if I should keep 6'1 in my dating apps or not lol.
edit: TLDR
I compared height with some who claim 5'10 and when I checked my height I was one inch shorter than what I always thought I was.