Which person have you spent the most time with during your lifetime?

It may have been my idle brain talking, but I started thinking about that question the other day on the Metro and really wish I could definitively know the answer.

In the same way I can check my bank account balance from my smartphone, I want an app that gives a live total, perhaps with a simple leaderboard.  There could be fun icons that show who is rising or falling the fastest, or others like who holds the record for seeing me the most days in a row.

Defining “spending time” as being at least in the same room, it seems like the top contenders would have to be members of my immediate family.  After all, I spent my entire childhood under the same roof as all of them, and with six people there, that often meant being in the same room as someone.

For everyone, your mom gets a 9-month head start, but in my case that advantage is nullified by the fact that I have a twin sister.  You might think my sister got a further boost by being in school with me, but we actually spent almost no time in the same classes.

This post needed a family pic, and this is probably my favorite

As far as my brothers go, my older brother was around me for nearly three years before the younger one showed up.  However, the younger one got two of those years back when the older one went to college.  If I had to honestly guess, I would say given the amount of time we spent playing video games together, at baseball games and playing whatever sport we made up in the back yard, I would have to assume my younger brother is the winner.

Of course we’ll never know…unless someone has been watching this whole time.  If that’s the case, please email me.