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Any of these sound familiar?
You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family and we know that there are times when you really wish you could.
While we’re certain that you’ve an incredibly good relationship with your brother/sister, we also know that there are moments when you think that they’re agents of the devil that were sent to this world with the sole intention of wrecking your head.
It’s not all about the name-calling and hair-pulling though, so don’t forget to make a minute with your brothers and sisters and remember that you love them really.
Until then though, enjoy these mild forms of family torture…
1) Scaring the bejesus out of them
Very few things in life are as gratifying as planning, waiting and executing the perfect ‘scare-the-bejesus-out-of-your-brother/sister prank. The best scares require patience and stealth, but they’re 100% worthwhile.
If you’re constantly scaring your sibling then we applaud you.
2) Who started it?
There’s nothing worse than seeing your sibling manipulate a situation to make them look like they’re the innocent party in the fight you just had.
You know they started it.
In fact, the whole world knows that they started it and yet your parents still side with them because they’re able to weasel their way out of any situation.
Infuriating.
3) Get out of my way
Whether it’s a leg, an arm, their head or even just the corner of their teeny-tiny small toe, your sibling is either too close to you or else they’re blocking the TV. Again.
You ask them to move. They reply “no”.
This is repeated four or five times and then World War III breaks out.
4) Torturing the younger sibling
Hands up if you’ve said the following before: “Run around to the shops there and get me an ice-pop. I bet you can’t get back here in less than ten minutes. I’ll time you.”
Cue your youngest brother or sister absolutely legging it like this.
It’s also very likely that you tried to convince them that they’re adopted or that some type of monster will come for them while they sleep unless they give you their sweets. Evil.
5) Sharing food
Dinnertime, or, to call it by its real name, WAR.
Meals are a dangerous game at any time of the day, even more so with family members.
Why? Because they couldn’t give a flying fart if they offend you or eat your last potato croquette.
Dinnertime is practically a free-for-all where anything goes. First up, best dressed and the rules don’t apply.
6) Ratting someone out
The golden rule between siblings and it’s only broken in the most heinous moments.
If your brother/sister ever ratted you out to your parents then you’re legally allowed to give them the silent treatment for a month.
7) Getting their clothes
If you ever got hand-me-down clothes, then you’ll know the anger and jealousy that instantly stirs inside.
You were probably thinking that your folks preferred your sibling because that’s the only logical reason why you would be forced to wear such horrific clothes.
8) The petty stuff
Borrowing clothes, teasing your sibling after beating them at FIFA, endless pranks, the old ‘not touching, can’t get mad’ game, stealing their food.
The list goes on.
9) The spirit of competition
If you have a sibling then you know that everything is a competition. EVERYTHING!
Despite all of these things, you still love each other.
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