What is different or even unique about your body?  Do you have six fingers
on each hand, or extra-wide feet, or odd-colored hair, or can you wiggle your
ears or bend your arms into strange positions?  Are there parts of you that
do not fit standard clothing? (Are there any grexers who can wear standard
sizes in all clothing?).  Do you have trouble finding comfortable chairs, or
shoes, or glasses?  (Is one ear higher than the other?).

64 responses total.

My arm is really a plant.

I have a prosthetic eye (the left one).

i have a prosthetic brain (the left one).

I have a -- no.  I'm kidding.

I have difficulty finding hats that fit, although there are some kinds 
I'd love to wear on a regular basis.

I don't find much about me terribly unusual, although people very 
occasionally notice my eye color.  It was green until the pigments 
started separating out a bit.  There is a corona of hazel brown around 
the pupil, and the rest is bluish with a blue-green outline.

Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads.

#3> *blink blink* Please don't make fun of my disability. That wasn't nice.

wasn't making fun!!!!!! i swear! making a funNY! (was more of a crack on me
doncha think hmm?

I have very huge feet for a woman. (I wear a size 12-wide) I can find 
shoes that fit but usually I have to buy men's shoes. I have a LOT of 
trouble finding women's dress shoes that fit me. Luckily for me, there 
are lots of men with big feet who like to wear girly shoes so they do 
make them in large sizes like that. 

I'm not saying this to be mean, but have you considered checking out places
that cater to transvestite and transgendered men? 

I'm a 12 wide too.  It's really all about Payless and Nordstrom.

Hm . . . Nordstroms, huh?  I wear a 10 wide, and although there are a 
few more shoes out there for women's 10 wide than 12-wide, it's 
incredibly difficult to find quality shoes that are attractive.

Trust me - Nordstroms.  They are expensive - but they are also well made -
and their staff totally rocks.

        Hrm, I guess my only oddity is that I have Celtic feet, which are
shaped slightly differently than "regular" feet, and fit better into Doc
Martens than anything else.

Celtic feet?  Hahahahahahahahah!!

#8> Oh, I know. I probably would have actually been offended if it were
certain other people, I knew you was just playing...I just had to have a drama
queen moment. ;}

Hmmm . . . I think I see a small trip in the future . . . you can never 
have enough shoes.

Me, me.  Trendy, fashionable 12s are _impossible_ to find!  Road trip? Or
an accessories swap meet?  

I think one thing to keep in mind is that what looks good in a size 6 or 7
doesn't necessarily look good in a 12.  And fashionable 12s are possible to
find - I'm wearing very fun sandals right now.

Man, I've seen some big Keds that looked like clown shoes.

Edina has a VERY good point, though.  It does make the hunt less 
diasppointing if one remembers this.

re #10 I am not saying this to be mean, but do you know of any places 
that cater to transvestite and transgendered men? Seriously. I ask 
because I have considered it because I have seen some drag queens with 
some seriously big feet and fabulous shoes but I have been too shy to 
ask them where they get their shoes. 

re #11 Thanks for the Nordstroms tip. I have gotten dress shoes at 
Payless but they dont often have a big selection and when I *do* find a 
pair of dress shoes there that I really like, they never last very 
long. 

re: 22 

There are places in Royal Oak, but I don't know their names. I'll ask some
friends later tonight. 

I"m not aware of any in Royal Oak, but there's one about half an hour north
of me. There's a place in Royal Oak that does cater to strippers, and has
shoes up to 13, but not the sort of shoes yo're probably looking for.

what the hell are celtic feet? i ask this to find out if i have them or not.
i love my docs. but they are laced tight.

i wear an 8 and *i* hate looking at those cute little size 5 things on
display.

i have skinny wrists. very skinny. i found a watch today that actually fits,
and that's probably b/c i got it in chinatown. i can;t wear bracelets .. i
like those leather band things but they don';t make them with a small enough
circumference.

i have an outie-innie naval. i think this is weird. it's like an outie that's
innie.

i have a birthmark on the side of my fourth toe. it weird.

my thumbs are double-jointed. this was painful when playing sax, but only on
my right hand where you hold the fucker up.

i still have 2 or 3 baby teeth. there is no adult underneath. i also have no
wisdom teeth. i am okay with this.

i have loads of freckles. if anyone wants any, i'll offer grexers a discount.

        Celtic feet are shaped like this:

       __                       __
      /  |                     /  |
     /   |                    /   |
     |   |  instead of this: /    |
     |   |                   uuuu\/
     UUU\/

        (kinda hard to do that in ASCII art)

that cleared up absolutely nothing.

        Poop.

Shoes always seem to end with the toes in a point, not a rectangle as in both
drawings above.  I thought the pattern on the left was more common.  Jim says
he has duck feet, sort of round.  He has to buy a few sizes too long.  He can
wiggle his ears.

Re #25:  I'm having trouble with the navel thing.  I'm tempted to ask for
         ASCII art, but I bet it wouldn't help...

Re #26 and #27: It was clear to me. Celts have four toes!

Considering how cramping shoes are, they would probably fit better over fewer
toes.  Fashionable women used to sometimes have one toe removed so as to fit
pointy shoes better.  It was considered refined to have tiny pointed feet.

I have a lot of trouble getting gloves that fit.  They are all either too
short or too wide or both, and the thumbs are too long.

Where is Nordstroms?

need some new pumps joe? ;)

resp:25  Well, there is skinny wrists, and then there is thick wrists, 
and I hadn't thought of mine until you mentioned your skinny ones.

It's really tough for me to find wrist watches that fit.  Only Timex 
makes bands that I don't have trouble wearing; all the others are too 
tight.  For that matter, all of them are digital with plastic or web 
bands.  I find this maddening because I would love a nice dress watch, 
but it's hard to find.

If I can find it again, I thought about buying a Harley-Davidson 
pocketwatch from the Franklin Mint.  Classy enough with dress, not too 
pretensious for most casual.

Nordstrom's.. based out of Seattle, interestingly.. just a side 
comment.  We lost our Yakima store about a year ago.

Speaking of feet, also, I have terrible foot problems.  I wear shoe 
soles out in the middle of the metatarsal (bottom of forefoot) area 
because I have tendons out of alignment.  Instead of wearing out just 
below the big toe, it is just below the middle ones.  I saw a 
podiatrist about it, have worn orthotics for a long time now, but 
can't seem to fix the problem.

re: 35 
Check out Skagen watches. Most of them look nice enough to pass for dress
watches, but aren't flashy enough to look bad with jeans and a t-shirt.

Swatch is another company that is nice enough to accomodate those of us with
large wrists. I've never had a difficult time wearing anything in their Irony
series, and you could get by with one of the more subdued Irony watches with
a suit. The regular Swatches are apparently made for people who have no bone
in their wrist, so you'd be out of luck there...but they do make "Large" bands
for the regular watches they sell. 

I think there is a NOrdstrom at Somerset - but if all else fails -
Nordstrom.com.

Isn't Nordstrom the company that did those awful ads?  For example, the
woman who gleefully takes her husband's classic 1950s Cadillac and crushes
it to "make room for shoes"?

My shoe size measures at something like 13AA, but those are not available,
so I have had to settle for 13C.  Indeed, for a time anything in size 13 was
hard to find, and the selection was limited: big retail chains like Sears
even dropped the size entirely for a while to "concentrate on the faster
selling sizes."  The "specialty" shops in Lansing MI in the 1970s seemed to
specialize in high prices and low quality. 

I have also had a lot of problems with my feet, which are extremely "flat".
When I was a child, something my parents said led me to conclude that having
flat feet was my fault, so I grew up feeling guilty about them.  In recent
years, I have had a lot of foot pain, and now wear "orthotics" (specially
molded hard plastic insoles, prescribed by a podiatrist) in my shoes.

My hands are unusual because they each have a straight line across the palm
instead of the two separate lines most people have.  These are called
"Simian lines" and are indicative of Down's syndrome and severe mental
retardation.

Shortly after his granddaughter was born, Hubert Humphrey was informed that
she was mentally retarded.  "How do you know?  She's just a newborn!" raged
Hubert.  The doctors said: "We looked at her hands."  I have hands like
that. 

I used to go out with a woman whose mother was an obstetrics nurse.  When
the mother saw my hands for the first time, she screamed.

Er, I meant to add, that since about 1990, size 13 shoes have become widely
available.  Retailing has changed again, fortunately for me.

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