He said he ain't coming . . .

My brother and I have stories that we tell people about our lives growing up together and I want to share one with you.  This story is well told and you may have heard it before but it is worth hearing again!  When we were little boys (I was probably about 7 and Brian 4) my mother was in the kitchen and told me to go and tell Brian that she said to "Come here."  So I ran into the back bedroom and told Brian that Mama had told him to come and he told me "I am not.  I am playing!"  So I ran back to my Mom and dutifully told her with a smile (Because I knew Brian was about to get spanked!)  "Mama, he said he ain't coming!"  She marched back to Brian's bedroom and wore his little fanny out!  She told him, "Now make your bed and when I call you next time you will come!"  So she and I (because I wasn't missing this!) went back into the kitchen.  A little while later she told me to go tell Brian "to come here!"  I ran back to his bedroom and I announced "Brian, Mama said to come here!"  He said between sniffs, "O.K. Tell her I will be there as soon (sniff) as I (sniff) finish making (sniff) my bed!  So I ran back to the kitchen and with great relish and HIGH drama said, "Mama.  He said he ain't coming!!"  To make a long story short, Brian received another 2 spankings after that.  One for not coming and one because Mama thought that he was lying about saying that he hadn't said that!  I know that right about now you probably think that I am awful.  How could he have done that to his sweet brother?  Well let me say that Brian had his own ways of turning the table!  He would often get in the hallway while I was with him and throw his body against the wall and start yelling, "Ken please don't hurt me!  You are hurting me!!!!" to which my parents would come storming in and promptly start tearing my tail up (Because they just knew that I was going to kill Brian before he could grow up!)  While this was going on Brian would be behind them, with all of his theatrics temporarily put on hold, grinning from ear to ear!  Ahhhhhhhh . . . Brotherly Love!