Sunday, August 9, 2009

Things You Must Respect

Recently I was visiting with my family. My older cousin and I we talking and we made a list for out siblings of things that all kids should know and respect. My sister didn't know one of them and my older cousin is like "How can you not know that? It's like looking before you cross the street, something that you just know." But it's sort of a fun like so I'll share.
1. Shot Gun This is not to be argued with. If someone calls Shot Gun the front seat is theirs. There's not Pistol or fancy rules to get around this.
2. Nose Goes For those of you who don't know, you call Nose Goes to mean not it. The last person to touch their nose is the one doing the unwanted chore or task. We use this very much especially with family get togethers. There's no arguing the Nose Goes. If you look around to see that your the only one not touching your nose start moving cause there's no getting out of it.
3. Fives If you say Fives when you leave your chair it will be safe so 5 minutes. People can sit in it while your gone, but when you come back everything will return to as it was, no ifs, ands or buts. However, if you forget to say Fives or overstay your time up, good luck getting that chair back.

Do you have any other important must be obeyed, unarguable no matter what side of the stick you end up with rules? Have you heard of all the ones I brought up?

1 comment:

hannah.r.freedman said...

Nose goes is regularly used to determine who has to do something, but I have never actually heard anyone call shotgun. My sister only recently became able to sit in the front seat and so the front is pretty much automatically my seat. As for fives, I have never heard of it. If someone takes your seat, you sit on them until they give it back.
The one thing that is never ever ever to be broken is a pinky promise. I am pretty positive that everyone knows what a pinky promise is, but just in case....a pinky promise is when two people lock pinkies over a promise. You are basically swearing to keep the promise and they can be used for anything from keeping secrets to swearing. Anyway, if my group of friends, pinky promises are law and if you break one, well, thats not good. Some people say you have to bite off your pinky, some just leave it a threatening mystery. Either way, pinky promises are nothing to be trifled with.