height woes

I had a dr appt. this morning and they checked my height, I was measured at a whopping 5' 3 1/4". Now this would be unremarkable if it weren't for the fact that my height gets measured differently depending on my hairstyle/length and I told the nurse ahead of time that my hair tends to skew my height upward.In her defense she smooshed the measuring thingy down but then she let it spring back up before having me move and did not at all compensate for it. Seriously am I destined to never get consistent readings? When I told Das about it he chalked it up to "Black girl problems" :)  I've decided to stick with 5' 2 1/2" since that was my consistant height whenever my hair was boy - short. Whenever it gets above an inch I get told I am anything between 5' 3 1/2" to 5'5" sometimes in the same week so I think it's safe to assume I haven't actually grown and shrunk. Particularly not multiple times. My driver's license has 5'4" on it b/c the guy at the desk decided I looked taller than what I told him. I'm good with being short, not sure why everyone else seems to have an issue with it.