6. Tell us about a birthday you attended.
My whole family is very tall, but my little brother is very very tall. At 6’9″ he will be the first to tell us the top of our refrigerators are dirty and he often krinks his neck to fit through doorways or into cars…and I don’t ever want to see that guy on an airplane.
The kids think he’s a giant. He just walks in and plucks toys from light fixtures that have been stuck there for months and suddenly he’s everyone’s hero.
When we were young I took a lot of pride in my ability to pin him to the ground and threaten to spit on him when we weren’t getting along. I was older, so it made sense that I would be stronger and exert my power over him. Oh you don’t want to pass me the remote? THAT’S IT!!!
He would actually run away from me. In fear. Now THAT is power my friends!
Until he grew 20 feet and started putting me in headlocks.
I watched my own daughters push around their little brother and I was like, enjoy it while you can girls! Kainoa has passed them both up in height and I’d just like to see them try to push him around now.
I get revenge on my brother now in other ways. For example, when I’m feeling crummy sometimes I think about a time we were at a bar celebrating his birthday. Mr. Big Tall Show Off reached up and plucked a balloon from the ceiling, loosened the knot, and inhaled all the air in it.
I watched the whole thing and was all, “Aren’t those taped to the ceiling?? I don’t think there’s actually helium in them…”
And then my brother went to speak in his high-pitched helium voice, but just his regular voice came out and he realized indeed…there was no helium in those balloons at all.
“You just inhaled someone else’s BREATH!”
To this day when I want a good laugh I just think about some complete stranger blowing up those balloons and securing them to the ceiling…only to have my brother turn around and inhale the whole thing.
And the look on his face…it was one of the best birthday celebrations I’ve ever attended.
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6. Tell us about a birthday you attended.
John Holton says
I’ve wanted to ask this for some time: how tall *are* you? Have I asked that before?
Abby says
I bet he gets a lot of “how’s the weather up there?” So original… not.
Inhaled someone elses breath. Eww. I imagine he will always be suspicious of ceiling balloons now.