Whats to be done about dangling feet?
Dangle. Kids are able to successfully dangle their feet for years before their feet toucht the ground so adults can handle it too. Focus on sitting up straight and working on your posture – it will alleviate the pain, make you appear taller in your chair, and will end up making you look as adult as you’d like to be preceived. As a short guy, I tend to run into the same problem sometimes and rather than focusing on where your feet go, it’s much better to focus on how you carry yourself. You might feel like a little kid when your feet dangle but people won’t perceive you as a little kid unless you slouch and carry yourself as one.
Man, I KNOW how you feel! I’m 4’11” and this problem has plagued me forever! The weight of my lower legs dangling in chairs causes lots of stress on my knees. I spent 7 hours on an airplane yesterday with my feet on my purse stacked on my sweater stacked on my airplane pillow stacked on a book. Then afterwards I found myself at dinner at a place where the tables and chairs were both super high. I think it’s supposed to make you feel big and important, but I was reduced to memories of booster chairs* and textbooks-as-seating-material while I tried to enjoy my tapas. I alternated between laying half sideways (legs in mermaid pose in the booth) and pressing them against the table leg, like a half-pike position. I’ve often thought about carrying around a collapsible ‘box’ that I could make into a square and rest under my feet. However, I’m rather embarrassed at the thought of somebody peering across the room and seeing my feet upon my stupid prop. Generally when I approach a table in publi
