My older brother had a multitude of peculiarities, but there was one I used to annoy him endlessly. My brother Will had a habit of eating a specific brand of store bought chocolate chip cookies. He ate two cookies with milk religiously before bed each night. He even bought the cookies with his own money. That didn’t stop me from taking cookies out of the package. Sometimes I ate them, sometimes I just threw them away.
He’d be bewildered why he ran out of cookies so quickly. He interrogated the family. Our parents either thought he was nuts or thought it was funny because they never ratted me out or yelled at me. Will started counting the cookies each night. Now my parents really did think he’d gone off the deep end. They’d say that maybe they are some cookies but they couldn’t remember or something similar. Will suspected me but could never prove it and it would agitate him to no end.