My older brother was a would be killer. Do not "joke" with your siblings.

When I was about 9 years old and my brother 13, we were left alone during the day with no adult supervision. My brother convinced me, with no problem, that I needed to be careful with my food because I might get poisoned by other family members, and to never eat anything if I was not certain who had left it "unattended".<br> <br>I did not think much of this at the time, but years later, when I was around 16 and him 24, he confessed "jokingly" that he had multiple plans to kill me for inheritance and how serious he was about making them happen. He "jokingly" told me too that he had planned my funeral and, if he didn't have a girlfriend at the time, he would have most likely killed me. The plans included throwing me in a cloth cabinet that stood above the stairs and pushing it so it would fall on me, cutting a fruit in half and put a razor blade in there, trying to drown me in a pool and a few others. He said I was too young to understand at the time and thus did not tell me because he didn't want to "spoil the surprise".<br> <br>He never even did anything remotely close to it, but I guess after all these years, knowing how many times he told people close to us that he hated me and how many times other family members and even our parents told him that he should be more kind to me and less rough towards me, I just feel a bit uneasy reflecting on it all. I can't tell if this is a "let's not meet" story, or a "just met my possibly psychotic brother" story, but I hope there are enough elements of it for it to be stuck in your head forever, as they are in mine.<br> <br>For those wondering - he is fine now, completely not into any of that anymore. He's not a bad person, but he was just going through a bad time and I guess I was the closest subject to try out those imaginary and "joking" situations.<br> <br>And for those asking, no, never ever in my life have I been close to killing him, but a lot of people have told me I should.