I think I know what I can expect from

my little brother for Christmas this year

Why…you may be asking yourself … would Anita Marie’s brother give her something like

that?

Well….

When I was about 6 and my brother Doug was 5 years old Chiquita Banana had an ad campaign going on and from what I can remember this woman with a basket on her head used to sing about Chiquita Bananas

“I’m Chiquita banana and I’ve come to say –

Bananas have to ripen in a certain way-

When they are fleck’d with brown and have a golden hue –

Bananas taste the best and are best for you –

Music © 1945 Shawnee Press Inc.

Doug loved bananas, he loved that stupid song and he loved to tease me because he could.

 

So on the day that he discovered Chiquita Anita rhymed and he could sing about his favorite fruit and torture me all in one wonderful stroke he sang that song non-stop.

 

 He sang it on the way to school, he sang it in the bathroom he called me up when I was playing at my friend’s houses and sang it over the phone.

 

You’d think that he would get bored with the Chiquita Anita thing. And he did. Good thing he discovered Cheetos.

 

It started off as Anita La Cheeto and then I became Cheeto La Frito. 

 

I never lived it down and on the day they bury me he’s going to magic marker Cheeto La Frito on my headstone.

 

But over the years I’ve grown and matured ( unlike some OTHER people in our family ) and  I’ve learned to deal with my little brother’s stupid sense of humor.

 

When we were younger every once and awhile I’d deal with it by going  into combat mode and I’d spread the stories like the one about how my brother’s girlfriend was such a mean vindictive brat that her pet turtle ran away from home and how my brother  went out in the middle of the night to look for it and stepped on it by accident.

 

Me and Doug are both older and wiser now ( well, that’s HALF true ), Cheeto La Frito is patient, and thoughtful and Cheeto La Frito has learned that male pattern baldness runs in our family.

I am so ready for this Little Brother

 

Everyone knows Cheeto La Frito shows no Mercy- and if they didn’t before…

 

Well they do now.

 

Love from

am