Looking for some real life inspiration for a Loki book. Anyone know kids who can suggest annoying things their brothers do...? Dm if said sibling would like anonymity/deniability... bonus points if they're younger brothers...
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My Eldest will butt into conversations with “That’s what Mum said when you were born!” multiple times a day. What’s that smell?”, “Why is that shoe lying there”: all met with “That’s what Mum said when you were born!”. He also memorably told his brother that he looked like a hand sanitiser bottle.
We all had to help with the washing up and after every meal my little brother would "need to go to the toilet". Mysteriously arriving back in the kitchen as we dried the last teaspoons.
Not a sibling story but one of my daughters 'friends' said to her, "Say, 'fuck'." and then grassed her up to the teacher when she did. Since then, she's deliberately avoided any chance to even learn about swear words which, while a relief, feels a little sad.
My brother once did the crack an egg on your head joke but actually cracked an egg on my head. I wonder if kids still do the crack an egg on your head thing. He also faked dead for a full 30 minutes when I kicked him once.
Once handed a can of fizzy drink (which she doesn't like) to child 4, asking that she take it through to her big brother, then as she left the room, I heard a low snigger, and "hurhurhur, gonna shake it up"
7 year old: he pokes me or taps me every time he walks past and then whines ' whhhaattt I barely touched you'
14 year old: he hears you say something once and then repeats it forever, long after it's cringe ( 7 year old sings in the background ' low taper fade')
My younger sister once ran me over with her bicycle. We were mid-argument and I was trying to be grown up and walk away (as our mum had told me to do, because "You're the eldest, you know better!).
Her front mudguard gouged a lump out of the back of my leg. She's still mortified about it today! 😂
My kids have many friends with little brothers and the big complaint 👉 when little bro is baby they get taste of fancy adult world (=meal at Pizza Express). Little bro turns out to be whirlwind of running, farting, shouting, throwing energy and they never, ever go to the fancy places again.
When he was young, the youngest of my 3 older brothers used to hide in the wardrobe in me and my sister's room. He would hide in there until we were in bed with lights out and then jump out. He used to also hide behind the curtains and do the same.
Truly. I got my own back by sewing his duvet cover to his sheets and sewing the feet of his pj bottoms up. We stood outside his room and waiting for the thud.
Finding my manuscript of a fantasy novel, reading it, and ambushing me in front of the family by teasing me about my main character was the worst thing my little brother did. He was probably 10 and I was 11.
Last one…Stood up at the Sunday school family service and did a frank Spencer impression- my dad’s face in the congregation was a picture.
And he is a younger sibling too 😊
Poked a stick through the front spokes on my bike with me riding it 😳
Took himself back to the youth hostel on a school trip aged 7 because he didn’t realise we were all in the Blue John Cavern
My parents were both youngest-of-threes and they had three kids, so they were wise to his ways! Wish I could remember specifics to share of what the annoying things were, but all that’s stuck with me is the aftermath.
Deliberately eating the strawberry yoghurts first, because he knows I don't like the raspberry ones so he'll get more yoghurts that way.
Yes it was decades ago.
Yes I am still bitter. 😛
I asked mine. “Talking all the time” was a common complaint. Also they have a recurring thing of getting “your face” in to every comeback. “That’s so annoying” “Not as annoying as… your face.” Most of them don’t even make sense. (“_Your face_ doesn’t even make sense”… you get the picture.)
But the most impressive was my younger sisters. Two standout moments. One when, aged 4, the older one ran in through the side door, went to her room then came back chuckling. Turns out she had *locked* her little sister into the gap between the two front doors… and hidden the key.
But the younger one got her revenge when older one wanted something she had. Younger made her repeat, word at a time. “Please… May… I… Have…” etc. Older grudgingly got the words out. Finally youngest sat there with a massive grin and said “No”. She was three.
My daughter would probably say ‘everything’ is annoying about her younger brother, but particular things recently are singing, singing too loud, singing a song repeatedly, and if asked to stop singing that song, singing another song that she particularly likes
Pets and kids in general. The difference between having a pet and a kid is not as great as many people expect. Cats are like having an older teenager and dogs are basically furry 3 year olds.
I'd once set up a huge Sylvanian Families village (for my hamster to play in) when my brother took his latex Jurassic Park dinosaur hand-puppet and decided to play Godzilla with the whole thing.
That above was from my own kids. The worst thing my brother ever did to me was spray deodorant in my mouth when we were fighting. I couldn't produce saliva properly for about 4 hours. It was gross and would not wash off 😭
my youngest:
- buys sweets / treat with pocket money
- leaves it in the living room
- forgets to eat it, for days, even weeks
- ... then when my eldest cracks and eats it, blows his top and demands she pays him back more than the original cost
My brother would do the whole, "I'm not touching you" thing in the backseat of the car, while putting his hands millimeters away from my face or blowing really hard directly in my ear. He also once handed me a cup of his urine to drink, assuring me it was lemonade. But the WORST thing he used to do
was throw himself down on the floor, make his face really red, clutch his stomach, and roll around on the floor crying, and when my mother ran to see what happened, he would tell her I knocked him down and kicked him in the stomach. It was frigging diabolical, and he got away with it for YEARS.
I cannot tell you how many bustings and punishments I got for that while my mom shrieked I could have killed him, and he stood in the doorway grinning at me behind her back.
I’m 50 and a younger brother. But mine used to steal my food at dinner time which (apparently) was completely acceptable so long as you’ve finished your own food.
I've asked my boy and assures me that he doesn't do anything annoying. However his sister might appriciate it if he didn't go into her room, take her books, tease her, not take turns with her or tell on her.
To be helpful, he did suggest that SOME brothers might blame siblings for things that they haven't done and suggests that this might be a good thing to put in a Loki book.
I'm an only child but my friend had a very annoying younger brother who once emptied a mouthful of cider over my head when I was sitting on the floor. He also left her teddy bear on her bed stabbed with a penknife and felt pen blood drawn onto it. ☹️
My older sister sneaked downstairs at Christmas, unwrapped all the chocolate tree decorations, REFOLDED THE WRAPPERS and told our parents she'd seen me sneak downstairs! "Well why would she make that up?!!"
I used to do this (and I'm a younger brother) with the old style foil and paper kitkat wrappers. Took a real still to open them without creasing them...then to re wrap them. Bit like a bomb disposal expert from a film
When I picked up my 6yr old from a playdate at his friends house, his friend is the oldest of two boys... The younger brother was on the stairs with the laundry basket throwing and twanging underwear at his brother saying and laughing 'ha ha, pants in your face!'...
It turns out if you launch or 'twang' them with the waistband elastic part a pair of pants can be surprisingly fast - and accurate. And yes, for a grown up, it's bad. But for a younger brother it's also very funny - at the same time.
I'm sure there are many more stories like these
There is perhaps some kind of correlation between awfulness and hilarity also. The worse it is, the funnier. Such as...if the pants were VERY dirty? Even funnier.
My little brother hassled our stepmother for some of our dad's inheritance for a house deposit, but it's possible that's not _quite_ what you had in mind :-)
I'll ask the kids when they get home, but I used to make up inconsequential lies for my sister, think she was quite old when she found out there wasn't a Toblertwo and Toblerthree in different European countries.
Copying everything I said really quietly so he would never get into trouble but I would get really annoyed. And just general smugness about the fact that youngest generally equated to having to do the least!
When we were kids, my twin brother was always viewed by my parents as the ‘responsible’ one. He was always the one who looked after the keys, or was given the money that we were going to spend on ice cream…
Just spotted a brilliant example in the NHM. At in the Life in Space exhibition, the interactive "mission to an icy moon" display, boy carefully reading about the instruments he could choose before picking any. Little brother quietly presses and holds the launch button on the neighbouring screen...
Hub's brother once told him (Hubs being about 3 years old), "stick your finger in the 🔌socket, it tickles" and he did, the fuse blew and Hubs flew across the room.
Kid 2: "they stand _just_ outside the doorway to my room, start teasing me,and when I tell them to get out of my room, they go 'I'm not in your room! I'm not in your room! 🤪"
Kid 1: "they sneaked the last ice lolly in the freezer and though I knew they'd done it, they WOULD NOT ADMIT TO IT, to the point of crying fake tears"
(I can confirm this is true. That child will *DIE* before admitting they ever did anything wrong 💀)
The first one I had with relatable (2-way) hair, and my favourite everyday dress. I'm still seething (and I was 7 at the time) 😂
A few years later she was redeemed as my version of Annie Lennox in her Eurythmics era (displacing "Barbie & the Rockers" Barbie as lead singer) but the hurt remained 😂
As a single parent of two sons, now adults, I'm sure my eldest would offer the following: stomping downstairs, eating everything in the fridge, room stinks, copying what he likes.
Oh gosh LOADS (younger brother) …some days mainly breathing I think but copying him, asking annoying questions…once we were at end of long car journey and younger brother DARED to look out of HIS window…a hell ensued…
…weirdly though if you tell one off they close as a pack and are fiercely protective of each other. I’m an only child. I don’t understand how they can go from full scale war that would make Thor cower to skipping through the tulips hand in hand🤪
We need David Attenborough to make a documentary out of it for better research…truly fascinating stuff! And don’t get me started on the weird “in”games they make up. Am surprised their Spies game never globally caught on…
They sneak downstairs and if husband or or I see them they run back upstairs shouting “PINEAPPLE!”. Perfectly normal. And just to be clear it must NEVER be referred to as “The pineapple game”…I learned this the hard way 😂
Being too loud, breathing too loudly, music too loud, talking too loudly, stomping around the house too loudly...well, you get the gist of it (from a little sister's perspective).
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14 year old: he hears you say something once and then repeats it forever, long after it's cringe ( 7 year old sings in the background ' low taper fade')
Every crayon except the shades of purple. Purple was my favorite color.
No reason, just chaotic fun for a 5 year old.
Her front mudguard gouged a lump out of the back of my leg. She's still mortified about it today! 😂
Good Times.
And he is a younger sibling too 😊
Took himself back to the youth hostel on a school trip aged 7 because he didn’t realise we were all in the Blue John Cavern
Little brother: “Mom! Dad! Sophie hit me!”
Parents: “What did you do?”
(I’d still get in trouble for hitting him, but he would also get in trouble for whatever annoying thing he’d done first 😂)
Yes it was decades ago.
Yes I am still bitter. 😛
Snitching about things that happened at school.
Not sticking to his side of the car/sofa/bedroom.
- buys sweets / treat with pocket money
- leaves it in the living room
- forgets to eat it, for days, even weeks
- ... then when my eldest cracks and eats it, blows his top and demands she pays him back more than the original cost
I don't think it's a deliberate honeypot, and yet
I'm sure there are many more stories like these
(I can confirm this is true. That child will *DIE* before admitting they ever did anything wrong 💀)
1. Grassing me up to Mom about my (tiny, hidden) first tattoo in order to justify his (big, obvious) tattoos
2. Cutting the hair off this Barbie, and then biroing her face
A few years later she was redeemed as my version of Annie Lennox in her Eurythmics era (displacing "Barbie & the Rockers" Barbie as lead singer) but the hurt remained 😂
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