Behind The Awkwardness: The Waiting Game
May 26th, 2011
“This is a photo of my brother and I playing “Trouble.” Some buy travel-sized board games for traveling, others have them for extended lonesome periods of time in the washroom.”
(submitted by Christina)
Tags: board games
Haha, my cousin and I used to sit and tell jokes to each other while we each went to the bathroom. This brings back a lot of old memories…
LOL
My best friend and I always talk about how when we get old we will live in a Victorian home with dueling toilets and a table in the middle so we can play card games while we poop.
PLOP!!! you sunk my BATTLESHIP!!!!
I love this! Too funny…
And I get complaints for reading on the potty!
o/~ Anticipation… o/~
This reminds me of my own childhood. Mom would sit me on the toilet on the potty seat and put a tv tray in front of me with a game or puzzle to keep my occupied until I “went”. The if I tinkled she would put her hand to her ear and say “I can heeeeeeeear you!”
now thats awkward all on its own! no pic required! lol
HAAAAAA!
I really must remember not to eat when I’m looking at this site.
Repeat 25 times: “This is a photo of my brother and ME playing Trouble.” Thank you, that should do it.
Actually, “my brother and I” is correct…
I disagree, my teachers always taught us to break it down by taking out the other person. You wouldn’t say this is I playing trouble, you would say this is me playing trouble…
Actually, hushupp is right.
So funny and awkward at the same time. Kids crack me up!
“Me” is correct in this sentence because it is the object of the preposition “of”. “I” is the subjective case (I, you, he, she, it, we, they) and “me” is the objective case (me, you, him, her, it, us, them). hushupp is correct; Analisa Tamara’s suggestion is a good way to figure out which case to use, except her example should be, “This is a picture OF me.”
That’s just great. I got taughted wrong. I also thought “I” was correct. Awkward Family Photos – Come for the humor, stay for the education!
Who cares???
Any good citizen!
I smell Trouble!
Iam bored…let’s play Go Fish
“Let’s roll to see who goes first.”
(Roll. Roll)
“Looks like you get to go first and I go number two.”
Absolutely adorable Kodak moment.
Christina!
You have broken the holy promise women take to keep secret why we go to the bathroom in pairs!
For years we have kept to the Code, letting men, philosophers and bad stand-up comedians but wonder at this, our most sacred practice.
All over the world now, men will know we can’t leave home without our handbags because of the travel Scrabble and we’re not eyeing up other women’s outfits, we’re surreptitiously signalling the next round of Guess Who is “on.”
Curse you, Christina. Curse you!
Agreed 110%. So thankful for this comment. Hahaha.
“Is it you move or mine? OHHH,wait… it IS miiiine!!”
Is it my turn for (a) movement yet?
HEY, ANYBODY GOT MATCH OR A CANDLE? IT’S STAAANKY UP IN HERE!!!
I would bet this was taken on Christmas Eve.
There’s a date stamp on the photo. It wasn’t taken on Christmas Eve.
Now that’s some funny sh**!!!
looks about 6-7 in the picture. That would make him about 21-22ish now.. Buy him a couple cases of beer and other booze and all should be even..
Couple cases of beer…big party…all his friends and girlfriend. Then plaster this pic up on the big screen….THEN they will be even for everything HE did to HER growing up. ;0)
Now that is just mean..
Hey, maybe it’s me … but I smell “Trouble”!
One is the loneliest number when you number two.
It took some doing on her part, but Christina was finally able to convince her brother that now was not the time to play “his” favorite game. She set up the “Trouble” pieces and while he was not looking, slowly moved “Twister” next to the dirty clothes hamper.
What a nice sister to keep him company while he is going potty. I have small kids and find it cute and I would have snapped a picture of that moment, as well!!
This is hilarious, sweet and awkward. They get along so well in this situation because brother is to occupied to be a brother:)
Where I grew up this would have been one of the few times we weren’t fighting!
Very adorable picture.
Who says men can’t multi task?
LOL
Just curious Christina, did you guys play “Ker-plunk” next? *snort*
ROTFLOL
So I’m guessing that he’s about 18 or 19 now and a freshman in college. I hope he has a good sense of humor. “Trouble”, isn’t that one of those “poop-a-matic” games? Either way, it’s a nice brother and sister picture.
Its all preemptive…. He knows that, in the excitment of victory, we sometimes s**t ourselves…
BAHAHAHAHA
This is a big sister getting along with her little brother. They are not fighting nor are they even arguing either. They are co-existing in peace How lucky can Mom and Dad be? I like this pic and in 20 or 30 more years you might agree.
“Éxtended periods in the washroom” often are considered “Trouble” in their own right!
I think this is kind of cute. Just innocent!
Being a mom of 4 who squabble frequently, I find this picture quite sweet!
Troubling indeed!
For once, “Behind the Awkwardness” should simply be called, “The Awkward Behind.”
LOL!
and after “trouble” is over they are playing “Sorry”…
I hope the photographer did.
How ironic you say that, Scott, and then misspell “grammar.” LOL
He’s going to kill you if he ever finds out about this on www!
Cue the grammer police in 3, 2, 1….
*grammar.
Perhaps you mean the grammar police?
Oops haha. It’s grammar not grammer. Calling the police on myself!!
Cue the spelling police. Grammar is spelled with an “a”. . . not an “e.”
… you see if you simply remove “my brother” from the sentence you can easily determine the personal pronoun you should use! As a matter of fact…
And the spelling police in 3, 2, 1…
Grammar……
from a a member of the grammar police
oops…i need policing myself….from the typo police
s/b “from a member of the grammar police”
It’s not your fault
Grammar is not spelled grammer.
Cue the spelling police in 3, 2, 1…Scott!
Cute picture!
Cue the spelling police! It should be grammar!
…*takes a deep breath*… my brother and ME!
Perhaps it would be the grammar, and not “grammer”, police? Just fulfilling your prophecy for you, Scott.
Tim
P.S. For the pedants who object to my choice to place the comma outside the quotation mark, all I can say is that my doing so is stylistically superior to your desire that it be placed within.
P.P.S. For those who object to my choice to end that last sentence with a preposition, yours is the type of errant pedantry up with which I shall not put.
and the spelling police – “grammer” = “grammAr”
at least she did say ‘myself’
Cue the dyslexic police in 2,1,3…..
That would be dyscalcula, not dyslexia
Actually that is dyscalculia,not dyscalcula
My Travel Scrabbble is only ten spaces long.
Wow…awkward indeed! LOL
He’s flushed with excitement for the moment he wipes out his opponent.
WIN
Ohhhh, that was a groaner (the comment, not the product on the potty)! lol
I hope he was a nice brother. For his sake. That could be some brutal revenge ammunition for later in life.
You mean like posting the photo on the Information Superhighway?
Or showing it to his prom date on Prom Night.