Mutt Strut: Go Team Williams!

My brother, Scott, is 6 years older than me. Like a lot of older brothers he had a way of a) making me believe everything he said and b) enjoying my suffering.

For example, once on a bike ride past the park around the block he told me the giant bubbles over the tennis courts (so you can play in winter) were actually giant caterpillars. I didn't believe him at first, but then he pointed out the fences around the giant bubbles. "Why do you think fences are around them?" he said. "They're there to keep them in."

This made a lot of sense to me as a seven year old.

Another time, we were brushing our teeth in the bathroom at the same time. I still ate Flintstone's vitamins at the time. But Scott pulled out an orange vitamin, a vitamin I'd seen my parents and my brother take with a glass of water at least 100 times in my life.

"These are new vitamins," he said. "You can chew them."

I doubted him for a while, but when he said they tasted like orange, I was intrigued. So I chewed the vitamin.

And spent the next 20 minutes, spitting green crap out of my mouth while my brother laughed in the other room.

My brother has spent a lot of his life laughing at me. Now, I'd like my chance. You know, with love.

The Mutt Strut is an annual event in Indianapolis

"Mutt Strut is Indiana’s largest pet walk - it’s a fun and family-friendly event that includes a 2 1/2 mile walk (with or without a pet) around the famous oval at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway."

Team Williams, My brother, sister-in-law, and their two dogs will be walking. Scott has agreed to wear the hot dog costume (shown above) for the entire walk if Team Williams can raise $1500.

Where are they now?

$915.50

So close to humiliation. So close to sibling pay back.

If you like the Humane Society and have a similar older sibling in your life and would like payback, you should consider donating to this cause.

Go here to donate.

Comments

[amy]

My older sister told me that the dust particles floating around our cement basement (we were down there riding our trikes) were little kisses. Then she got older and meaner ;)

All the best to your weiner bro!

[Clair]

I am the older sibling, and I live in daily fear of new-found levels of humiliation now available to us through the internet. I really like your brother's hat.

[wookie]

For awhile, I thought the top picture was of Max.

[Allison]

Back in the old days when there were two keys for cars, one for the doors and one for the ignition, my brother told me that if you put the wrong one in the car door, it will explode. I believed that for years.

[Lisa]

My older brother challenged me that I couldn't fit in the trunk of an old '56 Lincoln.. I showed him, and then he showed me, by locking me in the trunk for an hour or two! I should have played dead when he opened the trunk again!

[CAB]

just to let you know......that isn't your brother. That is Max.

[Jenny]

I told my younger brother that there was an elephant under the couch and if he didn't feed it, the elephant would get him. He totally believed me. Then we got ants. And I got in trouble.

[jenn]

Wow! Thanks for the shout out! Oooohhhh....he's shakin' in his fire boots!

[cjh]

I thought it was Max, too. Was wondering who the little blonde kid was...

[hannah]

yeah! he looks just like max in the kid picture!

[kate]

You know who that top picture looks like? Max and Junie!

Cheers to paybacks to your older brother!

[Kelly]

Isn't it cool to know exactly how your son will look as an adult? Your family wins the genetics war.

Good luck to your bro, it's a good thing he's doing.

[Andrea]

Funny that someone said dust particles were kisses.

My daughter told my son they were beans. And according to him, he believed her for years.

Apparently she was already older and meaner.

[kay]

My older brother (6 years older) would tell me to listen to the hose and tell him when the water was coming.....

[cj coats]

My older brother told me to put my one-piece swimsuit on over my panties, that once we were at the beach, I could simply pull my undies out through one leg hole ......I'm still trying to get him back for that one.

[kimblahg]

wait, there were plastic domes over the tennis courts? never heard of such a thing!