Warning: This story could be cute or inappropriate--but it's funny!
My parents raised 6 kids. They had 3 girls, followed closely by 3 boys. I'm the youngest. Supposedly, birth order affects our personality—as does whether any older/younger siblings are brothers or sisters. I’m skeptical, because there are so many variables. In my family, for example, my oldest brother is sort of like Fredo in “The Godfather” and my middle brother much like Sonny—the oldest in the movie. So that makes me…um, oh…never mind. This post isn’t really about that anyway. It’s about my eldest brother (let’s call him Fredo) and why I’m glad I was NOT the first-born male.
I think I’ve mentioned before that I have good timing. Despite having no one to hand my chores over to as I grew, I lucked out in the birth order dept. Two of toddler Fredo’s sisters were only a little older than he was—18 months older and 3 years older. They were going through a “playing doctor” phase. It was obvious to the young doctors that something was wrong with their brother. But what was it? A hernia? An odd growth of some sort? To be safe, they decided to wrap it in bandages. All they had was scotch tape. It would just have to do. They wrapped his little toddler pee-pee up like a mummy—in scotch tape.
When I came along 6 years later, those same sisters were in a school teacher phase. So, I was able to read, write and do simple math long before I started school...and scotch tape was only used to fix rips in sheets of paper. I'm very happy with my place in the birth order.
PS – Fredo has the WORST luck with women. I’m not saying that’s related to anything, but…
PSS - Cute or Inappropriate????
baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaa unfortunate event more than anything. must be childhood traumatic injury that got him so "bad" with the ladies lol
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
ReplyDeleteDon't worry, hehe, it's cute! Well, cute for us anyway, not sure Fredo would feel the same way! Poor thing...
Ah bless him. I read somewhere that your height among siblings depends on the birth order. They say the oldest one will always be the tallest and gradually each sibling whom follows afterwards will be shorter than the one before. Is that the case in your family?
ReplyDeleteohhh if only i worked with you. there would never be a dull moment lmao i love the story, i'll have to retell it. liven up the office a lil ; )
ReplyDeletehahhahahaaa poor Fredo!
ReplyDeletehahahahaha....yeah..poor Fredo..(big laughs)
ReplyDeleteahahahahaha!!! i can't help but laugh but it reminds me of a time when my older sister had a barbie doll phase. she played with my youngest brother by dressing him up in her garbs. it was hilarious!!!
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAHAHA thanks for the laugh Rick! Hmm my brother is five years younger than me and we used to play a lot but I never played doctor on him, we just played pretend restaurant (I was the cook, cashier and waitress and he was the willing customer :D)
ReplyDeleteHow is this inappropriate? Oh, you mean the pee-pee thing? XP I believe in that whole birth order thing. I think that's why the hubs and I are like peas and carrots. ;)
ReplyDelete(I'm with your wife on the grilled cheese preference!)
poor fredo!!! at least they didn't use packaging tape!
ReplyDeleteoh my... scotch tapes! tsk tsk tsk tsk! roma is right about the packaging tape! that would definitely be worst!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely cute! I hope your family is recovered from whatever plague hit you right before Christmas, and that you are enjoying the holidays.
ReplyDeleteI would say there's really nothing inappropriate but only cute kids stuff. I had a good laugh over this.
ReplyDeleteI'm the youngest in my family too but I was like living a single-child family. All my older brothers and sister had their fun & fights growing up together. I arrived far too late!
LOL!!! Poor Fredo and lucky you! :D
ReplyDeleteXmas is not a really good day to shop though as it's super crowded but there's so much sales as well which I didn't mind the crowd :D
HAHAHAHAHAHA!! I had to re-read the paragraph to make sure I was reading it correctly. What a priceless story and yes, you have great time! How is his luck with women nowadays? :P
ReplyDeleteLMAO I think it's both cute and inappropriate. You did luck out!
ReplyDeletea mummified pee pee!!! ahhh hahahahahaha!!!!! it's defintely cute peppered with inappropriateness. i'm just glad i'm not a boy!
ReplyDelete*squirms* a mummified pee pee!!! removing that tape surely hurt! :P definitely cute, because its a childhood story. inappropriate if you were in your teen years. LOL! ;)
ReplyDeleteBaking boo-boo but not serious. *whew* Btw, I just saw the 1969 trailer. Found it kinda cheesy. :P
ReplyDeleteFunny! Mummified pee pee :))
ReplyDeleteYou've got tons of childhood stories. That's great!
I am the eldest and had to endure endless hours of my three younger sisters bickering. One day, I took out three knives and gave them one each, told them to slay each other. That ended all arguments. I WAS a disturbed kid.
ReplyDeleteHaha... Oh my. Cute definitely! This is hilarious! When I first saw the title, it reminded me of some discursive essay about birth order. Aren't you lucky to be the youngest and learning everything before you went to school?
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Happy 1-1-11 to you! May 2011 be a smooth and pleasant year for you and your loved ones filled with lots of love, laughter and living to the fullest.
It's already new year on your side of the world right? Haha... I felt like I was a being from the future when I wished my frenz residing way up north of the globe.
omg hahahahaha scotch tape! that would... hurt! hehe thanks for the new year greetings and hope you have a good one!
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