So a friend of mine was telling me about this one strange thing his wife does. Whenever they get a gift of *food* and ONLY food (eg like a basket of cheese and crackers) she immediately goes about dividing it EXACTLY in half. "this is my part of the cheddar, this is yours" he isn't bothered about it just a little confused.

She told him. "If you had siblings you'd understand."

I suggested he may eat all the cheese and not notice.

Can those with siblings speak on this? Are you traumatized?

Technically I have a sibling but our age difference is so great we never really squabbled and I don't know of these things.

So a friend of mine was telling me about this one strange thing his wife does. Whenever they get a gift of *food* and ONLY food (eg like a basket of cheese and crackers) she immediately goes about dividing it EXACTLY in half. "this is my part of the cheddar, this is yours" he isn't bothered about it just a little confused.

She told him. "If you had siblings you'd understand."

I suggested he may eat all the cheese and not notice.

Can those with siblings speak on this? Are you traumatized?

@futurebird when I was small my sister and I might have done that with chocolate but not with cheese or any other foodstuff.

So a friend of mine was telling me about this one strange thing his wife does. Whenever they get a gift of *food* and ONLY food (eg like a basket of cheese and crackers) she immediately goes about dividing it EXACTLY in half. "this is my part of the cheddar, this is yours" he isn't bothered about it just a little confused.

She told him. "If you had siblings you'd understand."

I suggested he may eat all the cheese and not notice.

Can those with siblings speak on this? Are you traumatized?

@futurebird
I have a sibling, but this strikes me as *really* weird behavior. This kind of divvying up of food is very alien to my upbringing, and it would be a serious red flag with a romantic partner.

So a friend of mine was telling me about this one strange thing his wife does. Whenever they get a gift of *food* and ONLY food (eg like a basket of cheese and crackers) she immediately goes about dividing it EXACTLY in half. "this is my part of the cheddar, this is yours" he isn't bothered about it just a little confused.

She told him. "If you had siblings you'd understand."

I suggested he may eat all the cheese and not notice.

Can those with siblings speak on this? Are you traumatized?

@futurebird At our house it was my dad & his "only 1 kind of jelly can be open at a time" and since we weren't well-off he bought HUGE jars of jelly. Grape for months.

When my middle sister grew up, the very first thing she did when she got her own place was buy 2 jars of jelly and open them both.

@epicdemiologist

Yeah. My parents would only let me use like two of the scissors and hid the nice ones and wouldn't buy the scissors I wanted as a gift because "you have scissors" (even told other people not to get them for me since I had them already)

They came over one day and noticed that I have a big vase and it's full of every kind of scissor, every color and size...

"so, that really was a big deal I guess" my mom said ... I hadn't even really noticed the connection. But it WAS.

@epicdemiologist

Let your kid use scissors or they may grow up with a scissors scarcity mentality.

@epicdemiologist

Let your kid use scissors or they may grow up with a scissors scarcity mentality.

@futurebird @epicdemiologist My spouse's parents must have been in a club with yours, because we have scissors in every room of the apartment.

@epicdemiologist

Let your kid use scissors or they may grow up with a scissors scarcity mentality.

@futurebird @epicdemiologist

Oo I love the protractor scissors. Never seen those before.

Our scissors kept disappearing for years. When we moved out we found 9 pairs of them in our kid's room, behind the furniture, under the bed, in the closet...

@futurebird @epicdemiologist My spouse's parents must have been in a club with yours, because we have scissors in every room of the apartment.

@epicdemiologist

Let your kid use scissors or they may grow up with a scissors scarcity mentality.

@futurebird can you please talk a bit more about the two very weird (but still weirdly recognizible as scissors??) scissors on the table??????