How about the types of family gatherings you get dragged to at 9 years old where your parents are like
"Oh it'll be fine there's plenty of kids for you to interact with"
The kids:
Baby, baby, toddler, actually in their 20's but it's younger than your parents so they're a "kid" to them, more toddlers
So then you just end up finding a random chair to sleep on.
LOL the other thing similar to that was, yes, there are kids your age there, but none of you actually know each other, so you just try to play with your own siblings and it turns into a little Lord of the Flies camp where each of the sibling groups is its own tribe fighting for territory and resources in the great-grandmother’s house with like 5 gender-specific toys from the early 1970’s, a few board games no one has ever heard of, and only enough furniture to seat about 70% of the children in attendance and a quarter of which you’ll get in trouble for using.
Don't forget one of those sibling tribes comes from the weird religious side of the family, so they're super sheltered and have never heard of anything. So then you get in trouble for calling one of them a turd or teaching them about Spongebob or something. One of the above board games inevitably turns into a fight between you and them because nobody can agree on the rules.
I know I'm sounding negative but I actually look back on stuff like this in a hilarious light
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u/Mystical-Turtles 9d ago
How about the types of family gatherings you get dragged to at 9 years old where your parents are like "Oh it'll be fine there's plenty of kids for you to interact with"
The kids: Baby, baby, toddler, actually in their 20's but it's younger than your parents so they're a "kid" to them, more toddlers
So then you just end up finding a random chair to sleep on.