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Comes With The Territory

posted February 22nd, 2008 in Culture, etc

Sisters

Earlier today my family and I made our weekly trip to McDonalds and Walmart. My brother, Zachary is almost a year late for his pictures, so my mom sat with Chay and had Zach’s pictures done while I took my four sisters to get the groceries. About an hour later mom sent Zach to help me unload the cart while she ordered the pictures. The conversation took place as follows:

Cashier: All girls?
Me: (pointing to Zach) No, there’s one boy. He’s my brother.
Cashier:(looking worried)What? Oh, they’re all your siblings?
Me: (finally realizing she must think they’re mine) Yes, they’re all my siblings. They’re not mine, don’t worry!

After that she seemed to be okay with it, though a little wary of the fact that I was buying a whole ton of groceries with a bunch of siblings. I still find it sort of odd that my 14 year old brother and I appear old enough to be parents of 4 girls who’s ages vary from 10 - 2. I think it all just goes with the territory.

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7 Responses to “Comes With The Territory”

  1. Dakota on the 22nd of February, in the year of 2008 at 3:38 pm

    Yes, I’ve had that happen to me too….somehow I’m the parent of 4, if not 5 children. It is a very disturbing thought, really. :P

  2. Erin on the 22nd of February, in the year of 2008 at 4:34 pm

    Haha….. I’ve had the same thing happen. my sister is only 4 years younger than me, and some people have thought she’s mine…… :-/

  3. Jake A. Smith on the 22nd of February, in the year of 2008 at 4:40 pm

    haha - That’s great. Even though I’m like 18 years apart from my youngest sis, its still odd when people think she’s my daughter. I’m like.. uhh.. no.

  4. Mackenzee on the 22nd of February, in the year of 2008 at 6:33 pm

    I have had that happen, too! It’s so weird. And awkward. I’m five years older than Allie, and she’s almost as tall as I am, so it doesn’t happen with her as much, but if I ever take Anderson or Lilly (4 & 2) out somewhere….it definitely happens. I want to wear a sign that says “I’M THE BIG SISTER.”

  5. Kristin on the 22nd of February, in the year of 2008 at 6:34 pm

    I had a similar incident occur when my sister was a newborn (she and I are 15 years apart). An elderly man who was speaking at our church saw me standing there, cradling Elaina. He came up and congratulated me on such a cute little daughter I had. I smiled really big and simply said…”actually, she’s just my sister!” It was really funny :D

  6. Jacob D. Severin on the 24th of February, in the year of 2008 at 12:38 pm

    Hey =)

    Never had that happen to me before, actually, I think because all of me and my siblings are always evenly aged, so it just sorta blends and we’re all assumed brothers =P

    I like Kenzy’s idea, though, she should make a “I’m The Big Sister” t-shirt.

  7. Stephen on the 25th of February, in the year of 2008 at 11:47 pm

    Wow. Just take it as a compliment. ;-) I’ve not had that happen to me, even though I have been thought by some to be between 3-5 years older than I am.

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