June Cleaver Had It Right

[ladysprite]

I am not a large person.

Aside from being slight of build, I am about 5'3" tall if I stand up straight and stretch. While this isn't abnormally small, it is below average for where and when I live. The world, in general, is not sized to be appropriate for me. In particular, the counters in my kitchen are about 2-3 inches higher than is convenient. I can work with them in general; it's not a huge problem for things like chopping vegetables, cooking, or simple baking projects. But when I'm working with, say, huge amounts of stiff, awkward dough that needs to be rolled out with a lot of effort or pressed and munged around extensively, it's a major pain.

All of this explains why I am now baking about 150 shortbread cookies while wearing high heels. All those media housewives from the 1950's weren't oppressed, they were just freaking short. Admittedly, I'm wearing jeans and a flannel top instead of a dress and pearls, and I've got a crochet hook stuck in my hair to keep it out of my face and the food, but the scene was still enough to amuse the heck out of my husband....

Comments

[citabria]

I'm reluctant to say this and perhaps forestall similar visions in the future, but ... you *could* buy a pair of Danskos.

[mr-teem.livejournal.com]

Darling citabria, this is the problem with your new profession: it's screwed up your priorities. ;-)

Seriously, my maternal grandmother, who I remember was shorter than my mother (5'1"), had a wooden crate of some kind in her kitchen. Probably obtained from the grocery that she had. My mother would use stepstools or give up and just use the kitchen table. I definitely remember her rolling out pizza dough on the kitchen table.

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

I have a stepstool for getting into the cabinets - but it's too tall for working on the kitchen counters. :(