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

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Chillidoritto · 09/01/2021 18:32

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!

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SnappedAndFartedInMaui · 11/01/2021 14:18

@Aspiringmatriarch

Similar personality type here and yes on the chunky side (well, I thought so at the time.) Compulsive eater at times too.
It is tough, isn't it?

I always think binge eating is the eating disorder that may be the most common but one we hear least about. Never understood why.

User478 · 11/01/2021 16:53

Everyone in school who got a flu jab (and then a sweet!)
My GP parents said you didn't need one if you were fit and healthy.

A couple of months later: everyone in the school who didn't have flu.Hmm

For all of you who wanted to go to boarding school, you missed out on sharing a bedroom (San) with 5 other girls with d&v or flu or tonsillitis. It was before mobile phones so they didn't manage to call my parents to come and take me home for 2 weeks (by which time I was better)

BlowDryRat · 11/01/2021 21:29

These are pretty shameful but I'll share Blush

My infant school used to be a separate special school & mainstream school but they integrated just before I started. It still had amazing special needs provision, including a huge ball pond and a sensory room with lava lamps etc. Each day, the children in my class who had SN would go off one at a time for small group session with this equipment. They were allowed to take a friend with them but they never chose me. No one else ever got to use those facilities so I was deeply envious of them and the chosen friends! See also: the sheepskin rugs the children with severe eczema had for sitting on the carpet for story time.

In year 3: my best friend's massive conkers (not a euphemism!) that she'd found one playtime. I stole them and hid them in my lunchbox. Everyone's trays and book bags were searched but not the lunchboxes so I got away with it Blush

Also as a fairly young kid: anyone with glasses. It seems like I'm not the only weirdo on this thread who deliberately went cross-eyed during the eye test in a failed attempt to get a prescription Grin This came back with a double bite later on. Not only do I have reading glasses as an adult and find them a PITA but DD developed the same sense of envy when she started school and I had to sit through an excruciatingly embarrassing eye test where she was blatantly pretending she couldn't see the shapes on the eye chart. Little madam!

WeAreHalfWayThere · 11/01/2021 21:35

@itchyfinger

I was jealous of the kids in school who had asthma, they used to get "special" treatment and go to the nurses room every day for their inhaler Blush
That is similar to mine. We had a specialist deaf unit attached to our school and I am ashamed to admit that I was jealous of the deaf children because of their "special" treatment (I was 6 at the time)
Blackberrycream · 11/01/2021 22:05

An upstairs. We lived in a flat when I was little. I used to go to my aunty and uncles house and gaze at their stairs. I don’t think I ever went up them and I was really a bit obsessed with them. I think I even used to have dreams about them.

35andThriving · 21/01/2021 22:01

I'd forgotten about being jealous of people who had nosebleeds until reading Tobebesidesthesea's post! Grin

Rainbowandscarlett · 21/01/2021 22:57

My mother didn’t want a girl-she really wanted boys (there’s me,my brother and twin boys-so she got her wish)
I was so jealous of any girl who looked like a girl/had girl toys/pretty dresses/hair accessories
I had a crappy bowl cut,boys clothes,3 my little ponies (one was fake) and a few 5th hand barbies/sindys
When I grew up and had kids of my own,I made sure they all had toys of both sexes
Alas!my girls are tomboys and refused to play with ‘girls’ toys and refused to wear dresses!
Sod it-I now collect vintage my little ponies and have about 30 and counting…

mintcucumber · 21/01/2021 23:15

I hated my name as a child and was jealous of girls who had trendy names.
Funnily enough while rare in my childhood my name is now top of the popular girls’ names lists!

PixieLaLa · 21/01/2021 23:21

I was jealous of my friends oh so ‘glamorous’ treehouse. One day I fell out the tree house cutting my leg open on the metal ladder.

Went off the idea after that.

ItsAScream · 21/01/2021 23:55

Like a pp, as a child I was jealous of my friend’s long black hair - mine was blonde and so boring in comparison.

Onlymeandthedognow · 22/01/2021 00:42

Girls with ‘exciting’ names ( I have a mid-1960s dull name in the Jane, Susan, Ann style)

Girls who had normal home lives - My Dm was an alcoholic with all the usual chaos that brings

Families that had cars...

Kids who went on nice holidays... it was Butlins for us, and day trips to rainy Wales

Girls with pretty shoes... mine were practical, not pretty

A colour tv... so jealous of the families that had one.

BaggoMcoys · 22/01/2021 02:03

I was jealous of people with "normal" families and a loving, clean and tidy home... the kind of kids who could invite friends home after school without worrying that they'd walk through the door to find one of their parents passed out on the settee in a drunken stupor. Not a pity party, I don't dwell as an adult, but it was something I was quite envious of as a child. I'm doing my best to make sure my dd has a home she will not have to feel worried about inviting friends to!

On a more superficial note, I really wanted to have brown skin and brown wavy hair. I was one of the few white children and felt like the ugly duckling in my school. I was also a bit conscious of the "white trash" insult given my home life. I didn't want to be any particular race, I just didn't want to be white. I have outgrown that now!

I also wanted braces and/or crutches because what kid didn't want those?! (Except the ones who had them... They probably didn't want them).

BaggoMcoys · 22/01/2021 02:07

Oh and current me doesn't really feel jealous of anyone but if I had to pick it would be those women who always look "put together". I rarely make that much effort, but even when I do there's always something a bit scraggy about me. My hair is poker straight and I feel ridiculous if I try to put it up in any kind of style. I have never learned how to do hairstyles actually... I just about manage pigtails on my dd. I can't do anything on myself! And I cannot walk in heels, I can barely stand in them. I feel that done up hair and heels are quite important for that "put together" look. Although some women pull it off in flat shoes and I can't do that either, I think I have a funny walk and a funny gait. Doesn't take five minutes for me to scuff up and ruin a new pair of shoes.

ginandwineandbaileys · 22/01/2021 02:54

As a child I was jealous of my neighbours red hair and page boy Purdy haircut. I hated my long braids.
I was also jealous of shorter sturdier looking friends, I was long and thin and clumsy looking.
I'm currently jealous of a friend of mine, who has a Purdy haircut, short sturdy frame, and a perfect clean home. I live in the house where all the dust comes to live.

ExhaustedGrinch · 22/01/2021 03:10

I was one of only two Christians in my Roman Catholic primary school, I was extremely jealous of people who got the wafer (body of Christ), it made me pretty cross that I couldn't have one too.

redcarbluecar · 22/01/2021 03:51

During a slightly unhappy period of my education, I was jealous of someone who had glandular fever and was able to have lots of time off.

Nightfeedwatcher · 22/01/2021 04:00

Not having a fringe...the girls in my class with no fringes seemed so grown up and I begged my mum to grow mine out!

People with sky/digital tv...at home we still had the basic 1-5 and when people used to talk about programmes on Nickelodeon I was so jealous, and loved going round to their houses to watch music channels!

LizFlowers · 22/01/2021 04:24

People who had youthful, intelligent parents who didn't embarrass them.

superstardjherewego · 22/01/2021 07:03

Very jealous of a girl who I knew from uni days. I lost motivation towards the end of university and didn’t do as well as I should have. I don’t remember my friend doing hugely well but she was very driven and her family had a lot of the right contacts. She is now a company director and runs her own small baking business in the side whilst I do a 9-5 job you could do with your eyes shut

gingganggooleywotsit · 22/01/2021 08:08

I was ridiculously broody a few years ago to have a second child.. but my husband wasn’t keen at the time. I remember being ridiculous. We went to see Rio 2 at the cinema with our little girl and I started crying because I was jealous of the cartoon parrot who’s husband was happy for her to have a baby Shock absolutely mental!

Miffyliffy · 22/01/2021 08:10

I was jealous of girls with beautiful long hair.

From a young age I had a very severe headlice infestation that my mother never bothered to try to treat, basically infested from the age of 7-14, it would get so bad that I had chronic wounds on my scalp, everyone could see them in my hair, they'd fall out onto my school desk etc on multiple occasions my mother hacked my hair with scissors to try to 'cut them out' which left me with short boy hair that was extremely uneven and blotchy.

I was jealous of kids that had parents that worked, my mum never worked a day and spent all her benefits on her boyfriends and herself where we didn't even have a fridge, a phone, beds etc.

everythingbackbutyou · 22/01/2021 09:19

A friend at primary school had a pair of white slip on high heeled shoes from Freeman Hardy Willis that I coveted like nobody’s business.

StudentProblems · 22/01/2021 10:55

Anyone with straight hair!

Kids who wore glasses, I needed them from when I was 20 and was quite excited to get them all those years later. Over it now!

Ladies who can have children Blush Flowers

DenisetheMenace · 22/01/2021 10:56

Next door’s grass 🤨

StudentProblems · 22/01/2021 10:57

People that live in London!

My husband, because he has three lovely siblings. I always wanted more as a child, I particularly wanted a younger sister and an older brother.