My Brother Was a Brat!!!

Pea Shooter and Pellets - A pea shooter with brighter coloured pellet ammunition.
@Darkwing (21583)
May 30, 2007 6:15am CST
Have you ever been pelted by a pea shooter? Well, my brother was a brat... he bought a pea shooter with his pocket money, when he was about eight or nine, and he used to sit at his bedroom window, or hide behind he garden shed and fire dried peas at me. They would hit me, and I had no idea where they were coming from, because he had ducked out of sight. It took me ages to realise that it was him and not some insect or something falling out of the sky. Brat!!! Pea shooters are another cheap toy which has died out. They're still sold, but normally with accompanying plastic pellets and they have a safety mouth piece so that you can't suck back the pellets and choke. Just the same, you don't often see them around any more. Did you ever get hit by pea shooter ammo, whether it be a dried pea, or a pellet of some description? Did you ever find out where it came from and did you have a little brother who was a brat? lol. I'll be a few of you did!!! I can't be alone in this, surely.:-)
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@mummymo (23706)
30 May 07
I never had a little brother or sister who was a brat - I was the baby of the family and I really was a spoilt brat! lol Also never had a pea shooter but I used to cut down a plastic straw and steal some of the dried peas from the big glass jar my gran kept them in for when she made the soup! Fortunately no one ever got hurt cos I was a rotten shot anyway! Please don't mention the word pea shooter too loudly - Niamh bullies her big brother too much already! lol xxx
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@mummymo (23706)
31 May 07
Nah he's less coordinated than me - he couldn't hit the side of a house from 10 feet away! Bless! xxxx
@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
30 May 07
No my brother wasnt that mean never had one but some in school had them and if I got hit they got it took away by me and I would whoop them never had to many hit me.
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@Darkwing (21583)
30 May 07
Lolol... attagirl, Lakota!!! You had to catch who it was first though. My brother was the only boy of four children, so he had to get at us someway... always! lol.
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
30 May 07
ohhhhh I caught them lol I didnt get messed with to much in school for they learned that they would get whooped for it
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@maryannemax (12154)
• Sweden
31 May 07
my brothers never did that to me, too. they never tried to joke around something which can hurt me. i am just lucky to have them.
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
31 May 07
Well I did ones and yes it hurt but not by my Brother oh no by my Son when he 12 he was aiming at his Sister missed her and got me. He was totally flustered after he doid it and could not apologize enough but the little Devil he was he was also dying to laugh I told him he is aloud to laugh if he lets me do it back to him and we both just burst out laughing and of course little Wimp ran of and hid lol
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@Darkwing (21583)
31 May 07
Well, it is quite funny when you hit an adult, isn't it, especially when by mistake. In our case, it used to be the teacher who got the misfires, and if he ever bent down, his butt got fired at. Tehehehehe
30 May 07
Red Fire Engine - A big red fire truck, akin to that with which I exacted my fraternal revenge.
I must admit that I have no bad experiences of a pea-shooter, but do have an obnoxious older brother. When I was a little baby, he used to torment me, until I hit him over the head with my sturdy new red fire engine. This cut him, and brought up a large lump, much to my delight, and he still bears the scar! This was just our first such encounter, and back when they used to make toys out of sturdy metal! Whilst violence may not always be appropriate, I do still have a great feeling of satisfaction regarding this early form of self-expression!
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@Darkwing (21583)
30 May 07
Lol... I knew you'd respond to this, Adren, but I quite expected you to be a "shooter". However, I don't blame you for clonking him over the head with your fire engine... did you say "Nee na, nee na" whilst you did it? ha ha ha
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@Darkwing (21583)
31 May 07
Hmmmmmm, it seems we have two innocent little angels around this site. he he he Only a chortle? No big grin of satisfaction, or tongue out?
30 May 07
Me, a shooter! I was a little angel, though I suspect a little chortle may have passed my lips, as he lay screaming and crying on the floor.
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• India
1 Jun 07
I had no idea what a pea shooter was and it certainly was not available in the shops in my country when I was a kid, but I had fashioned my own, and I did use dried peas as the ammo. How did the idea come to me if I had never seen a pea shooter? I used to be a major fan of Tintin comics. In one of the Titles (I think it was Tintin in America), he comes across the Aztecs who use blowpipes to hunt birds and small animals. Their blowpipes were long and would shoot darts, sometimes poison tipped. I was so taken in by this novelty that I had to have my own blowpipe. I made several of varying sizes, but none of them were good at shooting darts, so I decided to use small pebbles. Pebbles being quite heavy, would not travel very far, so I decided to use peas! What about the target? My sister was fond of embroidery and had a frame which could be used to stretch the portion of the cloth to be painted. I took it, used paper instead of cloth and viola! I had a target board that could actually be pierced by my 'pea-shooter'. Before long, all the kids on the block were trying to make their own 'pea-shooters' and I was a pioneer in their eyes! Ah, those were the days. Cheers and God Bless, CV.
@Darkwing (21583)
1 Jun 07
A lovely story, vanilla. Yes, some natives used to shoot the poison darts through blowpipes, I remember. Your idea of making a target from your sister's embroidery frame was a good one. I would think that kept you amused for many hours. Brightest Blessings.
@kayrod2 (1304)
• Australia
30 May 07
I never had a pea shooter. Mum wouldnt buy them for us. But we made up our own things. We used pens, took the middle out, rolled up little bits of paper really tight, and use them. They could hurt. Also, used to put bits of potato in the pens too. They hurt. Your brother does sound like he was a brat. I didnt have a little brother, i was the youngest. I had 2 older brothers. They probably thought i was a brat. They were just pains. 1 of them still hasnt seemed to grow up! I think he is worse than when he was younger. I suppose there is always 1 in a family who is like that. Best wishes
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@Darkwing (21583)
31 May 07
**Whistles nonchalantly into the air.** I didn't used to do that with a pen and pieces of paper in the classroom... noooooo, not me. I have no idea what you're talking about! he he he. Did you know, Kay, that if you went and made the paper wet in the toilets first, rolled them really tight and let them dry out in your desk, they were hard as dried peas? lol. Yeah... I think I must be the one in my family who didn't grow up, or perhaps my younger sister of the two.
@maryannemax (12154)
• Sweden
31 May 07
i never had that kind of experienced - being hit by a pellet (thanks goodness!). but those who had experienced it says it hurts somehow. some kids here in the philippines play with them and hit each other. like having war games. crazy! and some of them go home hurt.
@Darkwing (21583)
31 May 07
I don't think it was ever that serious here. Nobody was unduly hurt that I know of... a pea shooter was just a fun thing. You didn't have to fire them at one another... you could have a target.
@hoghoney (3747)
• United States
31 May 07
Yes I have been shot with a pea shooter a few times or two but most of the time we would take a small piece of note paper and chew it for a minute and then shoot it out of the shooter or straw at each other. But I brother was younger then me and my sister and he learned to be meaner then us because we always picked on him so he started doing other things to us. Hugs!
@Darkwing (21583)
31 May 07
Yes, we'd often damp the paper under cold water, roll it tight and then let the paper dry into hard balls. :-} They always think of something, huh?
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
31 May 07
My brother was a pathetic little wimp brat...lol. He's grown up to be a scientist, a leader in his field but underneath his arrogance and brusquness he is still that little boy. I wonder how he and my sisiters see me? I'll probably never know.
@Darkwing (21583)
31 May 07
Circumstances always present themselves where your siblings tell you what they used to think of you. You'll probably get to here it one day. There's nothing wrong with being a leader in the scientific field; it probably shows his boyhood actually.
@whyaskq (7523)
• Singapore
1 Jun 07
Was it fun to be shot? I think so, since he had you fooled. As for myself, I do not own a pea shooter. I shoot using rubberhands. For variation, I use paper as bullets. The fun comes when we shoot and being shot. It was really havoc.