I’m sure you’re wondering, “Mary, why are your Christmas gifts stacked like that?” Well, there is a good reason why they are stacked like that: sibling rivalry.
Two Christmas Eve’s ago, I saw my brother stacking his gifts in a nice pyramid. I obviously could not be shown up. I go to a tech school and have many engineering friends, I could not be shown up like this! How would it look if I lost to a lawyer who has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science? I would look insanely terrible!!!
I told him that we should have a gift stacking contest, whoever has the taller stack and/or does not fall down (without intentional knocking) is the winner of this challenge. With my brother being older, he obviously took the challenge quite quickly.
I waited until he left the room later that night, so there was less of a chance of destruction of passers-by. I meticulously placed each piece and even got up and did an “earthquake” test every so often to know that what I was building higher was still on stable footing.
When I woke up on Christmas day and went to our living room, I took this picture because I was the winner. My brother’s pile was not as high and one part of it fell. I made my engineering friends proud.
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