The first memory i have that is more than just flashes is when I was about six years old. My sister was supposedly taking me to my first movie in a theatre, but i later came to realize she had other plans in mind. I remember walking to the theatre and it was dusk in our small town of Chinook Montana. I was very excited to be doing anything with my sister because she was seven years older than me and that therefore made her very cool to me and me mostly annoying to her.
We were at the movie only a matter of minutes before she told me we were leaving to go to a friends house. The friend's name was Jerry Burger. (considering the trouble we got in after being at his house, i think i will remember that name for the rest of my life) I am not exactly sure how long we were there, but I was sitting in a chair kind of watching all the "big kids" do their thing while my sister was all of a sudden not in the room. I waited nervously and in what seemed like only moments she came stumbling into the living room laughing loudly and acting completely different than how i had seen her before.
Jerry came right to me to inform me that my sister was not drunk and everything was fine, but even at six years old, I knew different. I also knew that we were going to be in trouble when we got home.
I did not realize it at the time(beinf six, wasn't totally sure of the whole time concept yet) but apperently we had come home to early from the movie which caused my father to become suspicious as well as angry. I remember sitting on my sister's lap as my father grilled us on where we had been. Everytime he would ask me something, I would recieve a pinch in my back and a whisper in my ear from my sister of "movies!"
After much deliberation, my father determined we were lying and grounded both of us for the entire summer. (grounding was his weapon of choice) I guess because i was an accomplice to the crime I recieved the same punishment for the choices my sister made. To me, it was way too extreme of a punishment for both of us. I was just following my big sister and doing what I was told..... Moral-big sisters can be troublesome so watch out.
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