brother

2021-04-30

I was trying to cut my brother’s hair in the backyard, but his hair is so curly. I would straighten out a curl and trim a little off the end, and then let it sproing back into a curl, but then it didn’t look like I had cut any off at all, so I would repeat the process.

He was complaining about my work the whole time and I was getting really frustrated because he wouldn’t actually tell me how to do it right.

Later, the whole family was in the car driving down the road. My brother was driving, and I had just loaded up a large package in the backseat. There was no room for me to sit, so I rolled down the window and closed the door, stood on the runner on the outside of the car and hooked my arm in through the window to hold on.

He started driving down the street, and I immediately realized my perch was not safe nor sustainable. I saw a four-way stop coming up and I shouted forward to him to stop at the stop sign, and then I would hop off and run forward and sit in the passenger seat in the front.

He slowed down as he approached the stop sign, and I got ready to hop off, but he never stopped. He just rolled through the stop sign.

I yelled angrily at him, and told him to stop at the next stop sign so I could get off the side of the car. I was scared and didn’t feel safe.

He just rolled through that stop sign again, and ignored me yelling at him to please help me.