the youngest sibling experience is a fun mix of getting away with anything and having strangers offer to drive you home out of pity because your mother decided to do yoga instead of picking you up and didn't call to tell you this until two hours after school ended

for content this was a biweekly occurrence as a teen. when i was 11 i used to have to walk a mile and a half in the desert sun with a whole ass cello strapped to my back because she "didn't feel like" taking ten minutes out of her day to grab me from the end of the road.