I'm The Smart One, She's The Pretty One

[Neoma]

The other day my friend Christopher, who has not met my sister, offered me an analysis of our relationship.

“You know,” he said. “You’re one of those sibling pairs where one of you is the bombastic one and one of you is the dry sardonic one. You’re the bombastic one.”

Okay, so A) no, I was not aware of that apparently standard method of classifying siblings. But also B) Christopher is one of my freelancers, meaning that B1) it’s in his professional interest to not piss me off and B2) he is pretty well aware that being sardonic is my day job. So why does my sister get to be “the sardonic one”? The hell?

Read it all here.

[SheilaT]

1. I've more than once run across

sibling pairs being labelled as one is the pretty one and one is the smart one. But NEVER bombastic and dry, sardonic.

I was the smart one in my family, and both the older and the younger sisters got labelled as the pretty one.

[wellstone dem]

2. I was told once that I was the funniest one of my siblings

My daughter reminded me that doesn't mean I'm funny.

[iemitsu]

3. you seem to have a sense of humor to me.

[TexasProgresive]

4. You're never funny to your kids

until they get older and start stealing your material.