You remind me of the farmer who had a mule. Good worker, but stubborn about going into the barn if his ears hit the top of the doorway. One day the farmer was carefully tracing around the mule's ears to cut two notches in the doorway. Neighbor came along and said, "Why not just scoop out a little dirt underneath? First farmer said, "Because, you dummy, it's the ears that're too long, not the legs!"