Doing It with My Brother after Intentionally Losing a Coin Flip
Moa Nilsson
Doing It with My Brother after Intentionally Losing a Coin Flip
By Moa Nilsson
Description: Me and my brother argue about who should do the laundry, and I have the perfect idea on how to solve our dillema: we'll just flip a coin. Oh, and if he wins... maybe he'll get to do something more than just the laundry.
Published: 2022-10-17
Size: ≈ 1,791 Words
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Doing It with My Brother after Intentionally Losing a Coin Flip
"Hey, sis, who did the laundry last time?”
A voice calling out to me, more specifically that of my brother. His request: to help remind him who did the laundry last, because we usually take turns and my brother is surprisingly bad at remembering whose turn it is. Maybe because he's hoping I'll get it wrong at some point and he'll have to do a little less work, because if I said it was his turn when it really wasn't, we both knew he'd immediately "remember" who's actually next up.
Unfortunately for my brother, I didn't do such trivial things as forget - not whose turn it is to do the laundry, and certainly not anything else either.
And in this case my outstanding memory had let me think up a plan of sorts. One where I'd ironically have to pretend to forget.
"Hmm… to be honest, I don't really remember either.”
It was my brother’s turn. I did it the last time, and even not counting that I’d done it more than my fair share of times before that already, the times where it really should have been his turn but he couldn’t for whatever reason. By all means my brother should be the one to do it. But some things mattered so much more than having someone else take care of the laundry for you, and some things also felt worth doing the laundry more times than needed for.
This was one. Would be. If things went according to plan.
“That’s unusual. Then, any ideas for deciding who should do it this time? It’s not like we can decide based on who did it last if neither of us remembers…
“Yeah, that’s right. We can’t, can we? And that’s why I have a suggestion! Why don’t we flip a coin?”
“If I win, you do the laundry, and if you win I do?”
“Yeah”
I took out the coin I’d conveniently left in my pocket at an earlier point in time(which was what gave me this idea in the first place) and showed it to my brother. Just to give this whole thing a pretense of fairness. Or strictly speaking not just a pretense, it was just a normal coin. Even if I'd have wanted to cheat I wouldn't have known how to. Too bad.