When I was four or five I asked my mom if I could have an older sister. She tried to explain that while I might get a younger brother or sister, I couldn't have an older one.
I sighed in exasperation and said "I guess I'll just have to get a maid."
It turned out I thought that if I had an older sister, she'd have to pick up all the toys!
A childhood belief about family
others believed things like this
- when i was really young, i couldn't figure out why i can't get older than my older sister.— angela
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- i used to think that every family had a brother and sister and they married eachother when they got olderAnon
- I used to believe that one day, my younger brother would be older than me and then he'd pick on me!— Andrew
- My oldest sister is 15 years my senior. I used to think that she was older than my mom.— Callie
- My older sister used to tell me that ants were bees. My mom was very confused when I refused to go outside.— Paulette