7-year-old brother refuses to move bicycle out of passageway after his older sibling insists, so his sibling disassembles it and packs it away for him instead: 'I spent 30 minutes taking apart his bike'

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Emma Saven
Aug 18, 2025 4:00 AM EDT

Family is everything, even when we feel as though our patience has spread thinner than a piece of floss on a low-card, low-fat diet… So when you're tripping over your brother's bicycle that has become such a monument in the passage way that it should be paying rent…take deep breaths and repeat to yourself, 'family is everything!'...and if that doesn't seem to calm you down, start a search party for that toolbox and teach him just how important that bicycle should have been to him… 


You can even take a note out of this sibling's book. After having to navigate her passageway was like an obstacle course, she finally got some sense knocked into her, and not just from tripping over the wheels…She demanded that her brother pack their bike away, and when he repeatedly refused, she told him, 'Okay, then I guess I'll have to do it.' But she made sure that it was 'so packed away' that it could be reboxed…disassembled piece by piece. Now that's what we call revenge, petty? Perhaps so. 

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  • We're facing some inner conflict trying to decide whether or not this was necessarily the most effective response. Now, her brother's left bike-less, alone on the sidewalk. She's left with a lot more leg-room to move around the house, yet the guilt may be starting to creep in…could this have been one step too far?

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    Young girl fixing a bicycle
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    I disassembled my brothers bike

    So for backstory we have a small entryway and my younger brothers (7yo 9yo and 11yo) always leave their bikes there
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    instead of putting them in the garage like they're supposed to. So today I come home from work and what do you know... a
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    tripping hazard left right in the middle of the entryway, didn't even lean it against the wall (which would still be annoying).
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    At this point I'm tired but also pi ed so I find out whose bike it was and I tell 7yo to put it in the garage side note, the garage
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    door was open at the time. He just mumbled something incoherent and walked off. (I have to admit, he might've been mad
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    because I had $20 cash laying around and I called 7yo and 11yo to do a "challenge" for the money. Then I walk out to the
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    bike and ask whose bike it was and 11yo was quick to inform me that it was 7yo. afterwards I gave the money to 11yo.)
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    I go to 7yo's room to find him sitting on his bed watching TV!! I start pressuring him to go put it in the garage and after 4
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    minutes of back and forth and no result I ask him why he even put the bike in the entryway to begin with, and he said "well they never
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    open the garage" (he was talking about his other brothers) WELL, THE GARAGE DOOR WAS OPEN WHEN I ASKED!!!! So I tell him
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    that I will put his bike in the garage myself "piece by piece". He didn't seem to mind and kept watching TV so I spent 30
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    minutes taking apart his bike and put it all in one pile, and let me say that felt so good
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    randomlyrandom89 Not telling us his reaction is like missing the punchline of a joke. I need closure....
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    SorryNarwhalhorn OP He's been avoiding me ever since but I just seen him sitting by the sidewalk with the bike stand in his hand. I kind of feel bad
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    Upset young boy crying outside
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    Strict-History-3802 Don't feel bad offer him this if he never does it again you will put it back together and if he does it again you will take it apart again and he will have to figure out have to put it back together himself.
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    Beneficial-Task-2307 it would be nice of you to offer him that you can reassemble the bike together if he promise to put it in the garage.
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    ShotBad5603 my parents had a similar problem with my brother and clothes so my dad put my brothers clothes in the trunk of his car. 30 yrs later my brother picks them up.
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    Economy-Dirt-1668 He had every chance to do the right thing. You did warn him.
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    GetOffMyLawnYaPunk When I was about 5 or 6, my little brother & I played Junior Mechanic on Dad's 1953 Chrysler Imperial. You'd be surprised how much two little kids can take apart with just a couple of Phillips screwdivers.
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    RJack151 He will definitely remember it.
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