I swear, being the middle child sucks. I am one of five kids, stuck directly in the middle. Since I’m always left out of everything, I know how to get by and deal with things differently than my siblings. Just to rant for a moment, here is something that happened yesterday and earlier today.
Yesterday I was washing dishes in the kitchen. Mom had asked me to, and us middle kids know that if we just do what’s asked of us, nothing bad will happen. Anyway, my older sister, K, declined when Mom asked her, saying she had to keep an eye on her one-year-old son, R. So I was washing dishes, review some guitar chords in my mind, when here comes R, right into the kitchen, with K nowhere to be seen. R, being only one year old, heads right over to the dog’s water dish and tips it over, flooding the floor. (We have a big dog, so it’s more of a bucket than a dish.) I grabbed R, despite my wet, soapy hands, and brought him back into the living room, where K was reading a book. I got yelled at for not keeping an eye on R, and had to clean up the water and finish the dishes.
Earlier today, I was washing dishes again. K decided she was going to help, so she started cleaning up the kitchen counters. Then, she took the sponge away from me so she could clean off the stove top, even though we usually use rags for that. Not having anything to wash with, I turned off the water and sat down for a bit. K turned to me and said, “Aren’t you supposed to be washing the dishes?”
“I kind of need a sponge for that, don’t you think?” I said. Needless to say, I got in trouble for being rude to my sister.
In conclusion, being a middle child sucks.