10 Things People From Big Families Know
- You’re always late for everything → Getting a large sum of people from the front door to the car takes a megaphone and an hour’s notice.
- Family reunions must take place in a grand hall → There will be a minimum of 100 people there and there is a very slim chance you will know more than 30 of them.
- You’ll answer to anything → You’ve been called your brother’s name, sister’s, cousin’s, even Grandma and Grandpa’s dog… and you’ve definitely responded.
- You don’t know what an “inside voice” is → “Quiet” is not a word that your family understands. Even if you’re talking to the person across the table, you better yell at the top of your lungs!
- Family road trips look like a circus → you can squeeze six people, suitcases, and dogs into any vehicle.
- You buy in bulk → Most people buy one package of paper towels at a time, but your family goes to Costco and gets the extra large packages, three at a time.
- Clothes run through a constant cycle → From you to a sibling to a cousin to another cousin to a younger sister to another cousin and so on and so forth.
- Long showers are a rare gift → When six people have to shower before 7 a.m. every morning, you don’t get to perform the whole album, only the top single – or somebody gets cold water!
- Group pictures take three to ten times to get it right → There is always somebody with their eyes closed, or not looking, or sneezing. And if none of those happen, there’s still your little brother giving your cousin bunny ears…
- There is an endless amount of love to go around → From “immediate” family to second cousins, great aunts, and friends turned family members, there will always be somebody there to catch you if you fall.
