As a girl with two older brothers and no sisters, I've never been able to really relate to the relationship sisters have--the clothes stealing and dramatic fights as well as the secret telling and inseparability. Sometimes you find yourself wanting an older sister to give you advice, or a younger one to carry on your legacy, but you soon find that having brothers was easily the best way to grow up.
1. Most of your baby pictures feature you in boys' hand-me-downs.
If you can even see anything other than my bowl cut (thanks mom), you'll notice I'm usually in cut off muscle tees, basketball shorts, and oversized tee shirts. I know I must have owned dresses--at least during the week of Christmas and Easter--but they must have gone into hiding the rest of the year.
2. You surprise most people with your talent for beer drinking/wing eating/show burping.
I'm not sure if science can back me up here (@BillNye), but I'm almost positive there's a very evident correlation between food consumption and presence of older brothers. When you grow up with older brothers in the house, there's no such thing as judgment, calorie counting, or clean eating. There's food, and a lot of it.
3. You're always outvoted.
Aw, you thought that just because you sat through two hours of Sports Center that they could sit through five minutes of Legally Blonde? No. But you get to steal their big sweatshirts and baseball tees so...it's not all bad. We'll call this one a tie.
4. You kind of suck at dealing with drama.
I may or may not be guilty of having once said I don't get along well with girls. *insert girl being accosted by hot dogs gif here* But seriously, I'm not good with drama. When you have brothers, nothing can't be fixed with a kick to the shin or some other annoying act of mild, behind-your-parents'-backs violence.
5. You're blunt. AF.
Disclaimer: this is not an excuse for you to be a piece of crap of a human and blame it on having brothers. But sometimes you may let your unfiltered opinion slip out, unintentionally stepping on a few toes. It's okay, no one will say anything about it...to your face, at least.
6. You know way more about *insert their favorite sport* than most girls.
Honestly I don't really want to know anything about motocross. It is 107% useless in my everyday life. Do I need to know who Ryan Villopoto and Ricky Carmichael are? No. At least most athletes weren't too hard to look at though (but God forbid you actually said that out loud).
7. No one really taught you how to makeup.
Sometimes my mom would give me pointers, but more often she was just spewing mom-isms, like "you're naturally beautiful, don't wear makeup" or "you're too young to worry about looks!" Young girls these days have no idea how lucky they are to have YouTube to tell them what to do and not to do. My God, a moment of silence for the calamity that was middle school makeup.
8. You can't think of anyone you'd call before them when you need backup.
As much as some girls probably pity those without sisters, I can genuinely say I am so sorry if you do not have at least one brother. Of course, they will torture you and pick on you and beat on you and probably hold you down and burp on you. But especially as you grow up, they will always be there for you, and you will always be there for them--no questions asked.
