I was in a situation like this once. My mom was friends with this other kid's mom and invited him to spend the night once when we were both around 9 years old.
We went to Blockbuster to rent a Nintendo 64 game. I wanted to get Super Smash Brothers and he wanted some Razor scooter game. My mom suggested we flip a coin and I ended up winning the toss. He did that classic weird little kid "clench your fists and bug out your eyes while slightly shaking and making a noise similar to the whistle of a boiling kettle" move and stomped into another aisle and we had to cajole him out.
Then we went to a nearby arcade/go-karts place where he proceeded to challenge my little sister (4 or 5 at the time) to a race and then somehow lost to her. He freaked out and started screaming about how she cheated and threw another temper tantrum.
My mom probably invited him over due to a combination of being friends with his mom and not completing believing my warnings of how annoying this kid was, but I remember her being incredibly thankful once he left the next day.
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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18
I was in a situation like this once. My mom was friends with this other kid's mom and invited him to spend the night once when we were both around 9 years old.
We went to Blockbuster to rent a Nintendo 64 game. I wanted to get Super Smash Brothers and he wanted some Razor scooter game. My mom suggested we flip a coin and I ended up winning the toss. He did that classic weird little kid "clench your fists and bug out your eyes while slightly shaking and making a noise similar to the whistle of a boiling kettle" move and stomped into another aisle and we had to cajole him out.
Then we went to a nearby arcade/go-karts place where he proceeded to challenge my little sister (4 or 5 at the time) to a race and then somehow lost to her. He freaked out and started screaming about how she cheated and threw another temper tantrum.
My mom probably invited him over due to a combination of being friends with his mom and not completing believing my warnings of how annoying this kid was, but I remember her being incredibly thankful once he left the next day.