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...to ask what cheeky things your sisters did to you (light-hearted)

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CatherineTheTiny · 13/04/2018 12:38

Okay so I just messaged my sister on WhatsApp and something catches my eye. Is that... could that be...? Yep, my darling sister is wearing one of my beloved skirts on her profile picture. Since I left home to work in the UK for a year she's apparently treating my closet as an extension to hers without asking. I texted her "That's a lovely skirt you are wearing there. It just awfully looks like one from my closet :*"

What cheeky things have your sisters done to you? Or what have you done to your sisters?

Full disclaimer, I love my sister to bits so this is all light-hearted (even though I am slightly annoyed at her too)

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SweetSummerchild · 13/04/2018 12:45

I, thankfully, have no memories of this but...

As a newborn my sisters (then 5 and 7) took me out of my cot and put me in their doll’s carrycot. The carrycot was designed for a Tiny Tears weighing about 8 oz and not an 8lb baby. The material ripped and I fell through the bottom.

Luckily, they have a bit more sense now.

Somerville · 13/04/2018 12:48

DSis went through a phase of telling me that items of my clothing we're too young for me, or that I looked 'muttoney'. Then she swooped in to offer the offending item of clothing a new home. Hmm
Yes, I did fall for this more than once Blush

Roomba · 13/04/2018 12:53

When I was 5 and she was 2, my sister told my parents that I'd pushed her off the mechanical ride (one of those you put a coin in and it moves back and forth for a minute) she was on. I was several feet away and saw her fall off! I got smacked legs and no ice cream that day. I've not forgotten 😉

I was about 40 when I realised she probably did think I'd pushed her off, given she was 2 years old. I have softened my view slightly now, but still...

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CatherineTheTiny · 13/04/2018 12:54

@summerchild
Oh my goodness, that sounds dangerous (even though there are probably some pictures of my sister in my doll's stroller. She loved sitting in that thing😂)

@somerville
I once did that with shoes. "No, DS, that heel is too high for you and they look silly anyway"😎

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Paie · 13/04/2018 12:55
Blush When I was very young, I convinced my little sister that 5p and 10p coins had a far greater value than £1 or £2 coins. Because of course, 5 and 10 is a higher number than 1 or 2. I successfully had her swapping her pocket money for months before our parents caught on.
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CatherineTheTiny · 13/04/2018 12:55

aww @roomba, have some very late ice cream on me 🍨

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CatherineTheTiny · 13/04/2018 12:59

@Paie
This usually works with "bigger coins" (50 p vs 1£) too.
I just realised that my sister probably isn't the only cheeky one😂

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helpconfused · 13/04/2018 13:00

I have a few, both ways.

Apparently when I was 3 I poured juice down the back on the TV and it broke, I blamed my sister even though she was a baby at the time.

My mum overheard my sister telling me to 'ride over her hand' when I was on a Thomas ride on.

She also threw a duvet on my head when we were arguing and I was led on the floor...and jumped on it.

We are the closest ever now though.

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CatherineTheTiny · 13/04/2018 13:11

@helpconfused
Same with my sister. We are really close but she used to drive me crazy (and still does occasionally)

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MrsTommyBanks · 13/04/2018 13:15

Broke my Sylaphone Angry on Christmas Day 1970 something. Hers is still in pristine condition.
She also unravelled my very first attempt at knitting.
I was heartbroken on both occasions.

DeepfriedPizza · 13/04/2018 15:18

When we were all left in the car whilst my parents were in a shop ( early 90s) she convinced me that the car lighter wasn't hot. It was and I needed a trip to A+E

ElephantsYeah · 13/04/2018 15:22

Lol I've done what your sister's doing to you... My sis spent a lot of time abroad in her late teens / early twenties so I "helped myself".

We now swap clothes fairly regularly. It's nice, you kind of get a new wardrobe every now and then. Have the same shoe size too...

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CatherineTheTiny · 13/04/2018 16:49

@Elephants
It would be totally fine if she'd asked first... but I can't help but admire that level of not giving a fuck that's required to use a picture of her in "borrowed" stuff as a profile picture...

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AssignedLazyAtBirth · 13/04/2018 16:51

When I was 4, I treated my baby brother with a new haircut... DM is probably still pissed 2 decades later!

Alexindisguise · 13/04/2018 16:55

My sisters told me that i was adopted but not to ask our parents as they would just deny it. I believed them for years, until I finally asked my aunty when i was about 12!

RainbowGlitterFairy · 13/04/2018 17:07

When I was 16 I went away for a few weeks on a charity thing, I came home to find my sister, who was 6 at the time, had swapped our bedrooms so she could have the bigger room, she'd even swapped all the posters over. Then she tried to argue that I had just grown and that's why my room looked smaller.

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CatherineTheTiny · 13/04/2018 17:23

@Rainbow That is the epitome of cheekiness, sorry but I am laughing so hard😂😂
Did you get your room back?

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youvegottobekidding · 13/04/2018 17:58

When we were younger (my sister is 6 yrs older than me) she liked Adam Ant 😂 & I liked Shaky Stevens 😂, we use to share a bedroom, so half the bedroom was covered in Adam Ant posters & half in Shaky posters (can u imagine😂) when we'd fall out I use to secretly rip one of my posters in the corner & tell our parents that she had done it!! More naughty than cheeky I think! And yes she'd be told off for it!

Slightlyperturbedowlagain · 13/04/2018 18:04

My sister left my favourite skirt, which i’d been reluctant to lend her, in a hotel in Paris and didn’t own up until 5 years later when I visited her and insisted on going through her wardrobe to find it. (Then wondered why I would never lend her anything ever again)

redexpat · 13/04/2018 18:07

They sent me into my parents room when they were shagging to shout make it a boy this time.

MissClareRemembers · 13/04/2018 18:12

Mine is a tad, shall we say...entitled. I love her dearly but she can be really demanding. For example once, when staying with me and DH, she said she’d clear the table after dinner but then said, “I’ll do it if you draw me a bath”! Cheeky bugger and who the heck says “draw me a bath”?! 😂 She also invites us, my parents and other sibling to stay at her 6 bedroomed house but at the very last minute tells us to bring air bed/duvets/pillows/towels with us because she “simply hasn’t had time to get it all out the linen cupboard.” We anticipate it now and ask if we need to bring anything.

RainbowGlitterFairy · 13/04/2018 18:16

No I didn't! She pointed out that I never have toys out in my room so really what did I need the space for? She used the 'but you never use it' argument a lot, my favourite was when she was 17 and trying to talk me into lending her my ID

Sproutpie · 13/04/2018 18:23

redexpat

😂😂😂

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CatherineTheTiny · 13/04/2018 18:25

@MissClare she might have borrowed that expression from "A streetcar named desire"🤔😂
@Rainbow Wow I am stunned, that's not fair

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MissClareRemembers · 13/04/2018 18:28

I remember telling her she was really bossy when we were kids, never saying please or thank you. She said she didn’t need to be polite because she was the eldest sister!