Things Kids Argue With Siblings About, Ranked By Relatability

Long before you knew 'innocent until proven guilty,' the rule was "he said, she said." Someone who got told first ended up in time out, regardless of guilt.

Meanie, ugly, stupid, stinky, gross—does that ring a bell? Sticks and stones hurt bones, but names always stung. Names led to tattling, pouting, arguing, or ignoring.

If your sibling always watched and sang along to "Sesame Street," you never got to watch your show. You got the remote, though.

You just got home from the pool, maybe opened a Sunny D (Florida Style), and Mom showed you the chore list.

You must see the car. You must be outside. You must be heading to the car. Whoever calls it first wins. This ends the "Shot Gun" story. Abide, or sit in the back.

But he went anyway. Some siblings ignore the order of opportunity. Others keep track. This happened whether jumping off the diving board, picking the radio station, or playing on the computer.

The early bird gets the worm. Before you booked a flight or bought Weekend 1 passes to Coachella, you thought this applied to fighting over the bathroom.

Cheating sneaks up on victims. It shows itself in many ways and targets everyone. It appears when it isn't your turn, like throwing a video game controller in "Street Fighter," or getting a head start in a bike race. Cheaters suck, so does cheating.

You might switch washing or drying duties. Or maybe you share the dishes every night. Neither task was easy; the person doing the most work never felt fair.

When playing video games with your brother or sister, you always wanted to be first player. Playing Super Nintendo meant yelling or fighting over who became player one. Younger siblings know what it feels like to play as Luigi more than Mario.

Jerry Seinfeld used a different term, but we call it take-backs. Your sibling gave you a toy because they were done with it or thought it was stupid. Three weeks later, they punched you or called you a thief and took the toy back. They usually forget the initial event.

Mom skips cooking that week. Dad pays for the kids to go to the local chow shack.

She hung the dirty shirt back in the closet, keeping the deodorant stains. You caught her. She tried to pull on her sweatshirt before you saw her.

Whoever entered the shower first got rights to most of the hot water. You flushed the toilet in the other bathroom while they showered? So what?