I've never understood this either. Why do you want to know how tall I am? Are you going to use that data to regale your friends with stories of the "freakishly tall 6 foot" woman you met and you want to get the details right, or are you just nosy? Now that I'm 60 and there are also a lot more tall women than their used to be, I hear it less, but I sure had a bunch of flashbacks reading this story.