CMU Psychology Department

I remember going to my grandma's house with my sister and my two cousins every Sunday afternoon. This started before I began school so I was probably about four years old. One day I remember in particular was when we played restaurant and it was one of my cousins and me running one restaurant and my other cousin and my sister running the other one. We had a ton of play food to make our restaurants authentic. My cousin and sister decided to make their restaurant focused on hot sauce and for some reason I was pretending to be allergic to hot sauce. To my great, little kid dismay, they even put hot sauce in my ice water! I distinctly remember this day because we thought it was terribly funny and liked to tell the story frequently. Other than that, it doesn't really stick out from any of our other Sunday activities we entertained ourselves with while the grown-ups played pinnacle all afternoon. I am still very much like this 4-year-old version of myself because I spent the rest of my childhood with my sister and cousins and my cousins are, to this day, my best friends. We've changed our activities slightly, but we still interact in the same manner and are all pretty much the same kids we were in our childhood days of fun.