k.unwrapped

I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before but I’m the oldest of three [excluding the 5 “half” siblings my biological father has that I’ve never met]. My sister is 16 and my brother is 13. I can remember when they were two and five and my sister would beat the crap out of him. They’d be sitting at their Little Tyke table eating Cheerios and I’d be watching TV or whatever and all of a sudden my brother would start WAILING. I’d run over to them and find his chair flipped on the floor and him laid out crying with his cereal spilled EVERYWHERE. I’d look at my sister and she’d be sitting there looking angry. This used to happen a LOT. I had to baby-sit them all the time and was permitted to spank some azz when they acted up…I STAYED popping her after that scene would repeat itself time and time again. I used to tell her to stop hitting her brother because one day he was going to be bigger than her and the tables would surely turn. I would baby my brother because I’d feel bad that my sister knocked him clear across the room. That girl was something else back then, lol
(she still is actually, ha!).

One day I was watching them eat chicken nuggets but they didn’t see me. My bro poked a hole in one of her nuggets with his sticky azz finger and she said stop. He laughed and did it again…she said stop a little more authoritatively. He thought it was funny and did it AGAIN but this time he stuck his tongue out at her to add insult to injury (btw, he’s STILL an annoying azz little taller-than-me snot). This time she smacked the smile off of his face and he starts boo-hooing. I told him he got just what he deserved and to keep his nasty fingers in his own plate…then I popped both of their azzes because they were still not supposed to hit each other. If he does something you tell an adult, don’t just start swinging at him, geez.

I think about that situation every time I catch the tail end of a ‘flip-out.’ Rarely do people just randomly flip out on someone without being provoked. Rarely do people lead lives full of drama without somehow provoking it. They may cry and wine about how drama always seems to find them, that they are just misunderstood or what have you, but when it’s a pattern folks need to realize that their actions, intentional or not, lands them directly in the middle of messes that they claim to want no parts of.