Random Things You Used to Argue With Your Siblings About (14 items)

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  (#1) Tattling

  This was long before you knew your rights of “innocent until proven guilty.” Back in the day, it was literally all about the "he said, she said." Sometimes you were guilty and sometimes you weren’t, but whoever got told on first was the one who’d end up in time out.
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  (#2) Name Calling

  Meanie, ugly, stupid, stinky, gross... ring a bell? Sticks and stones may have broken your bones, but names always had a way of getting under your skin. This may have led to tattling, pouting, arguing, or ignoring.
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  (#3) The Remote Control

  Whether your sibling always insisted on watching (and singing along with) "Sesame Street" or they deliberately surfed passed your favorite show... you never got to watch what you wanted. Unless, of course, you had the remote. 
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  (#4) The Front Seat

  You have to be able to see the car. You have to be outside. You have to be on your way to the car. Who ever calls it first, wins. This is the end of a little story we all know as “Shot Gun.” Abide, or sit in the back.
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  (#5) It Wasn’t His Turn

  But he went anyway. Whether it was jumping off the diving board, choosing the radio station, or playing on the computer, some siblings didn’t honor the pre-determined order of opportunity. And some siblings were always keeping track.
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  (#6) Chores

  You just got home from a tough day at the pool, probably popped open a fresh Sunny D (Florida Style) when Mom greets you with a list of chores. 

  You try handing it off to your sibling, he/she wants nothing to do with it...and suddenly the battle is on. 
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  (#7) The Bathroom

  The early bird gets the worm, and until you booked your first flight with a major airline or tried to buy Weekend 1 passes to Coachella, you thought this phrase applied to the endless battle over using the bathroom.
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  (#8) Take-Backs

  Jerry Seinfeld may have used a different term for this, but for the sake of being politically correct, we’ll refer to the situation as take-backs. Your brother or sister gave you a toy because they were “over it” or it was “stupid,” and then three weeks later, they punched you in the arm or called you a thief and retrieved the toy. Usually, they conveniently "forgot" about the whole event wherein they betrothed it to you in the first place.

  It was always safer for Mom to stay uninvolved so you were left feeling betrayed with two empty, clammy hands.
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  (#9) Doing the Dishes

  Maybe you took turns washing or drying. Or maybe you took turns every night doing all the dishes. Either way, neither one was glamorous, and it was never "fair" for the person doing the most work.
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  (#10) Who Got to Be First Player

  When it came to playing video games with your brother or sister, you always wanted to be first player. When playing Super Nintendo, it wasn't uncommon to yell or even have fist fights with siblings over who got to be player one. If you are a younger sibling, you probably know what it feels like to play as Luigi more than you do Mario. 
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  (#11) Cheating

  Cheating has a devious way of sneaking up on its' victims. It shows its' face in a variety of situations and doesn't discriminate. It could have appeared when it wasn’t their turn, when they threw your video game controller across the room in the final round of "Street Fighter," or when they deliberately got a head start while bike racing through the neighborhood. Being the victim isn't any fun, but any way you look at it, cheaters suck and so does cheating... so there.
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  (#12) Where Your Parents Would Take You To Dinner

  It's that glorious time of the week when Mom doesn't feel like cooking and Dad's willing to thrown down a bill to take the kids to the local chow shack.

  The kid's get to make the choice but where do we go? One of us wants Mexican the other wants Italian? Something has to give...
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  (#13) Who Took the First Shower

  Technically, whoever bullied their way into the shower first had unspoken (and unfair) rights to most (if not all) of the hot water. And maybe you flushed the toilet in the other bathroom while they were in there? So what?
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  (#14) She Borrowed Your Clothes Without Asking

  There are two ends to this story: 1. Then she hung the dirty shirt back up in the closet, deodorant stains and all! As if you wouldn’t notice. 2. You caught her in the act! She may have tried to pull her sweatshirt on before you noticed, but you always did.

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