I love "Hyperbole and a Half" -- or at least most of it. But I have to say, I've always been pissed off by the cake story. Maybe because my younger sister was like that: as Allie says of herself, "stubborn and spiteful" and glad to make others miserable for the crime of daring to say "no" to her. I can't tell you how many family events were ruined for all of us by my sister's determination that everything was going to be HER way and no other. Taking all the cake for herself is exactly the sort of thing she would have done. So I identify far more with the beleaguered mother than with the bratty little girl.
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I love "Hyperbole and a Half" -- or at least most of it. But I have to say, I've always been pissed off by the cake story. Maybe because my younger sister was like that: as Allie says of herself, "stubborn and spiteful" and glad to make others miserable for the crime of daring to say "no" to her. I can't tell you how many family events were ruined for all of us by my sister's determination that everything was going to be HER way and no other. Taking all the cake for herself is exactly the sort of thing she would have done. So I identify far more with the beleaguered mother than with the bratty little girl.