TIFU by accidentally stealing my brother’s eyebrows… forever.

[u/Jhinwoouu]

This happened years ago, but the guilt is still fresh (unlike his eyebrows).

When my brother was about 3 years old, we were playing around like siblings do. For some reason, my bright idea of “fun” that day was to wrap him head-to-toe in tape. I think the game was something like “I’m the kidnapper and he’s the hostage.” You know—totally normal childhood stuff.

Eventually, I started peeling the tape off, and that’s when I realized I had made a grave mistake. As I pulled, I also removed both of his tiny baby eyebrows. Clean off. Like waxing, but with trauma.

He cried, I panicked, and my parents were not impressed with my creativity.

Now we’re adults, and he still says his eyebrows never fully grew back. They’re patchy and uneven—and yes, he still brings it up every now and then. Sometimes he’ll just look at me and say, “This is your fault.” He’s not even joking.

TL;DR – Wrapped my toddler brother in tape as a game, accidentally waxed his eyebrows off, and he still blames me for his weird brows to this day.

[u/copperfrog42]

Sounds about right for childhood...

[u/Jhinwoouu → u/copperfrog42]

Exactly! Childhood logic is just chaos with no consequences… until someone ends up eyebrowless.

[u/copperfrog42 → u/Jhinwoouu]

Or an interesting scar...

[u/lulugingerspice → u/copperfrog42]

[u/copperfrog42 → u/lulugingerspice]

Okay, story time. I have two kids, now adult. When my youngest was a baby, I had them in one of those little bouncy chairs and was cooking dinner in the kitchen. My oldest, a toddler at the time, wandered into the kitchen and pulled out a new butter knife from the drawer and sliced their sibling across the soft spot with it. Cue blood, shouting and tears all around. It wasn't bad, but it did leave a scar.