To ask what is the most ridiculous thing you’ve been jealous of?

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As a child I was ridiculously jealous of my 3 little brothers for being boys! Not the usual sibling jealousy but because they got to wear trousers all the time, even for weddings when I got made to wear a frilly dress. They got the type of trainers I wanted when I was stuck with girly ones. But most of all because they had a willy and got to wee standing up! 😂

I used to put a chapstick in my knickers and say it was my willy, to somehow try and compensate!!

My parents (and brothers) love to remind me about this!

My next door neighbours collection of action man (men) and accessories, he had the dinghy and parachutes and everything. I wanted an action man for Christmas from my grandparents and despite my mum's insitance that only boys played with action man they bought me one. I was still jealous of his collection though.

My mum died when I was in my 30s, and yet I found myself feeling jealous of Dora the smug explorer because she still had her mum.

I was at primary school with a girl called Jessica who had lovely neat round handwriting. Our teacher got her to copy out our untidy work for display so when my parents came to school they thought she was this marvel even though it was my story they were admiring (they worked out eventually she could not have written every single one on display)!

I changed my writing when I was older so it’s beautiful like calligraphy, but too late alas. Still sad about it!🤣

@MrsGrindy from someone who ate what they wanted and stayed skinny, I hated it and ate bad food with the intention of putting on weight! My friends called me boney and I desperately wanted to be a normal adult clothes size as a teen (instead of in kids clothes) so I could wear the same fashion as everyone at school

@MrsGrindah sorry

Incredibly vain, I know, but a girl in Sixth Form was off with a vomiting bug came back much thinner. I was off sick a couple of times that year (unusual for me) and still hadn't had the sort of illness which causes you to lose weight.

(She was fine afterwards, I should say).

A girl when I was at nursery and her crimped hair.

My cousins boglin.

Mine was people with siblings (particularly twins). I badly wanted someone to play board games with. I'm still not over it, I have 4 different versions of Monopoly...

My cousins boglin what’s a boglin

When I was in reception I was so jealous of all my friends who’s mums bought them the high heel version of jelly shoes (like these images.app.goo.gl/r3oeUeVFA2CMzWBa9) My mum said there were hideous and unsuitable for 4/5 year olds - she kind of had a point I swear the heels on them used to be higher than they look now though.

Heelshandbag, it's a rubbery monster toy popular in the 80's 😃

I was always jealous of the kids who fell ill in school, and also of the kids with casts on broken limbs. The 8 weeks after I broke my wrist were blissful for me And I was always mega jealous of the kids with learning difficulties as they got to go out for remedial tutoring 🙈

Also, both of my parents worked so our house was often messy and meals were slapdash, so I was always jealous of friends with nice tidy, warm, homely houses and mums who were at home cooking dinner and baking.

@wishihadagoodone Omg this was me all over. I always used to hide my supermarket brand crisps, biscuit, etc under the lid of my lunchbox and just slide my hand in to get them. Being a poor teenager was fairly mortifying.

Another poster mentioned Kickers. I remember in year 8 wanting some so badly but we couldn’t afford them. I had some Primark ones that looked vaguely similar, but my peers did not hold back in letting me know it was obvious they weren’t. Ah...school. You couldn’t pay me enough to relive that nonsense.

@Faith50 it was exactly that for me too I think!

Hugely jealous of anyone with ginger hair. I wanted to be Anne of Green Gables but mine was boring brown!

Children wearing glasses. I lied at the optician when they did the test (age 5) but I must have done a bad job and they saw straight through the ruse.

@HeelsHandbagPerfumeCoffee @1FootInTheRave I used to be SO scared of Boglins. My rotten older cousin used to chase me around with his. 😂

I just googled boglin, eugh yes I can see they’d be scary

My sister was always jealous of me as a child as she felt I was getting more attention every time I was taken to hospital in an ambulance with a serious long term medical condition. Don’t think she thought about the days and nights I was alone in hospital (parents couldn’t stay in the 70s) and she had our parents with her.

Girls in my class who has started their period

I was the last girl (a week before my 14th birthday) I was always tiny and developed late

My friend who had the 4 storey Sindy house and what made it worse was that she didn’t play with it

Very jealous of my best friend whose parents owned a chip shop

@OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow

Black hair. I was as blond as could be, I longed for long silky black hair. My friend had beautiful long black Italian hair which she always had in plaits. When she came to a Christmas party and it was loose and past her bum I nearly cried. (She told me years later that she hated it and always wanted short neat hair)

Omg same! I have fine brown hair but always yearned for long thick glossy black hair. I could actually cry thinking about how jealous I was lol

@MrsGrindah

I can’t believe I’m telling the world this but I had short hair when I was a kid. My hair was very curly and thick and Mum couldn’t tame it so she had it cut short. I couldn’t blame her but I wanted to be like the blonde long haired girls. So, on evenings and weekends I would sometimes drape a tape measure over my head, sellotaped on. I would flick the ends about dramatically , showing of my “ long hair”.

Haha, I used to play dress up and would put a teatowel over my head to pretend it was long hair Never thought of tape measures draped like medusa

Also would d this weird thing with putting oven gloves behind my back and put hands in kind of backwards too, to pretend I had wings

The imagination you have, as a kid..

When the Bangles brought out Eternal Flame I was obsessed with Susanna Hoffs and her lips! I was jealous of anyone that had a bigger lower lip than the upper one and the way it curved under a bit. I was ashamed that I had a bigger upper lip and would try and push the lower one out with my tongue!

I was always jealous of anyone who went to boarding school. I had a friend who went and I always imagined it was like an Enid blyton book. I begged my parents to let me go but they laughed and said they couldn't afford it!