Growing up with 4 sisters, I’ve had to learn to share a lot of things: clothes, candy, tv time, my car, the list goes on and on; but one of the worst things to share is the same school campus. 2 out of my 4 sisters go to school at SOA, and being the only sibling that drives, that means that I have to ferry them to and from school everyday. Some people might think that would be fun; you have company on the way to and from school; you can force your siblings to help you do last minute homework in the mornings, and you can always get your siblings to buy you things because they owe you for driving them around all the time.  But for the few upsides of driving siblings to school, there are a million downsides and ultimately carting siblings around all the time sucks. Here are the top 10 reasons why.

#1: There’s never any peace and quiet.

Regardless of the time of day, my siblings are constantly talking, and laughing, and screaming about the stupidest things you could possibly think of. There’s never any opportunity for me to just drive in quiet, without having to listen to my sisters gossip about random people that I don’t know who go to SOA.

#2: They NEVER want to get there early and ALWAYS want to go home right after school. 

Sometimes after school it’s fun to go out to eat with your friends or hangout in the parking lot, but when you have to drive your siblings home, you either can’t go do anything, or you have to bring your siblings along and listen to them complain the entire time about how they want to go home and ask whiny questions like “When are we leaving?” Also, if you ever have to be at school early they’re never ready to leave on time, even if you remind them in advance, and always put you behind schedule.

#3: They tell your mom when you’re late to school. 

Anytime that I am ever even the slightest bit late to school, since SOA starts five minutes earlier than Magnet, my sisters are five minutes later, and they complain for days about how we have to leave earlier because we were late, or we have to drive faster because we’re late. Needless to say, it’s quite annoying. It gets even more annoying when they go home and tell your mom that you were late to school, which makes your mom wake you up earlier and nag you to leave the house.

#4: Sometimes, they make you drive their friends around too. 

When my siblings have a friend who doesn’t have a ride home, or who is going to our house after school, or even who just doesn’t want to ride the bus, they immediately text me and ask me if I can drive them. After school when all you want is to go straight home and watch Netflix and eat, even going just the slightest bit out of your way to drop someone off is very annoying. It gets even more annoying when the amount of giggling in your car increases tenfold, as well as the amount of gossiping about people that I don’t know.

#5: If they have something to do after school, you have to take them. 

Further impeding my ability to go home and watch Netflix, anytime either one of my sisters has a dentist appointment, orthodontist appointment, or any other type of appointment or meeting I have to take them, regardless of where it is!!!! This adds so much car time to my day when I already hate being in the car.

#6: They don’t give you gas money. 

The reasons that this is annoying are self-explanatory.

#7: You can’t skip first period. 

Even if I wouldn’t do this everyday, it’s nice to have the option, and sometimes when you have an important project or essay due it’s necessary to take a little time in the morning to finish before going to school. Also, sometimes you just have an urge to eat Chickfila in the morning and arrive late to school; however, when you drive your siblings to school all of this becomes a little bit harder if not impossible.

#8: If you’re sick, you have to make other arrangements in advance for them to get to school. 

Anytime that I’m sick, I have to find some way to get my siblings to school. And if neither of my parents can take them to the bus stop for various reasons then I have to wake up, get out of bed, and drive anyways. At a time when I want nothing more than to stay in bed and sleep forever, this really gets annoying.

#9: They always complain about the temperature of the car. 

My sisters always think that it’s too hot in my car. Even when it’s 30 degrees outside, if I turn the heat on in the car they complain for the entire car ride about how “it’s sooooo hot in here,” stating irritating remarks like, “I’m sweating!!” When it’s 30 degrees outside, no one is sweating and it’s perfectly normal to be cold and want the heat on.

#10: They use your bad driving habits to blackmail you. 

Anytime that I speed, even if it’s only going 5 over, my sisters take note of it and use it to blackmail me. Whenever they want something from me, or want me to do something, they just say, “well you have to or I’ll tell mom about how fast you were going the other day!” They don’t want to be late to school, they don’t want me to speed, they can’t have both things!!

Basically, driving your siblings to school can be very annoying for a lot of different reasons, and it just gets more annoying as the days go by. But for all my complaining, I know that I would be very bored driving to school by myself, so I guess that there are some upsides to it… but it’s mostly just annoying.