Anyone who has met with me in real life will know I am very tall: 1m85 to be precise. In addition to the joys it gives me, like getting regular marriage proposals from strangers in the street and being able to help shoppers reach for their groceries in the supermarket, there are definitely some negative sides to being non-ordinary in size.

One of them is shopping: where most women apparently looooove to buy new clothes, I hate it! Hardly ever do I find anything that fits. Shopping for me equates torture! Well, sort of…

So, when a friend of mine introduced me to her jeans guy and he confirmed he had several jeans in my size at his shop, I was literally beaming with joy. The one caveat: his shop is based in DownTown Nairobi; and going there means I have to chop out a full three hours of my working day to go there, which is not a luxury I have right now.

So… it has been three weeks since the introduction and you guessed it, I haven’t been able to go and try on the jeans. In case they would all fit, I would be happy to buy them all! No joke! That’s what tall people like me do!

SPARK OF THE DAY

I tried to hint to the shop owner that if there was any possibility for him to meet me somewhere different or so I could try the jeans on at home that would be a great help to me – many shops are indeed offering this as a service these days… but no such luck with Frank. Which begs me the question: have you thought about the barriers you put up for your customers prohibiting to buy from you? Conscious or unconscious…

I for one am afraid I now continue to keep looking for fitting jeans from a seller who understands the value of customer service…