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Anybody else hate their birthday?

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Viper GTS

Lifer
My birthday's tomorrow, & my family is asking me what I want to do. Honestly, I have no freakin' clue. I have a ton of homework, my Wega will be in the paper so I'm hoping to be getting calls, & I just don't feel like doing anything that has anything to do with my birthday.

Of course this doesn't go over well with them. Every year this gets worse & worse. They ask me what I want, I say nothing. They ask me what I want to do, I say nothing. I'm frustrating the heck out of them, but I honestly don't want it.

🙁

Viper GTS
 
I think I appreciate how you feel... I find birthdays to be awkward and chore-like at times, but

Happy birthday Viper! 🙂
 
I know they won't forget, I just wish they would.

What did I have planned for tomorrow?

Go swimming from 7-8 AM.
Get a haircut.
Do homework.
Take calls on my TV.

And that's about it. Just another day. If I didn't have to do homework, I'd volunteer to work it for the overtime.

Viper GTS
 
i refuse to tell my friends when my birthday is, simply because that means i have a party, and i don't like attention 😛 it's the day that i just sit around and do nothing.


wait, i do that every day 😕
 
Tell them you would like to take this opportunity to get that genital peircing you have been thinking about and would like a gift certificate from them for it, problem solved. 🙂

Happy Birthday btw
 


<< Of course this doesn't go over well with them. Every year this gets worse &amp; worse. They ask me what I want, I say nothing. They ask me what I want to do, I say nothing. I'm frustrating the heck out of them, but I honestly don't want it. >>


Ask them for a bunch of $20 dollar bills, and tell them not to expect you back till the next morning. That'll quiet them down in a hurry for next time. 😉

Yeah birthday parties hosted by the family tend to suck. 🙂 Can't blame them for trying, but suckiness is built in anyway...just spend the night out and do something you normally wouldn't do, like...uh. Bungee jumping?

If you tell me when your birthday is, toph, I can try and convince two Quebecan teenagers you know to pay you a house call that night... 😉
 
i'm with you too viper. every year it like if it's mandatory to do the traditional &quot;dinner&quot; thing, or &quot;party&quot; thing. It usually depends on my mood and time but come on, my b-day is Dec 7th, which are finals week in my school, :disgust: Last year, my friends took me to the Old Spagetti Factory here in LA, it was fun, lost my $200 cell phone that day and then left home. Birthdays aren't what they used compared to the times in grade school, people stop giving you the attention. If I were you, I would enjoy it. Go out, forget about homework and work, take a day off. Relax!!!

danny~!

edit: lots of typos!
 
Man, I love my B-day. It's the one day that people actually do something for me for a change. Maybe that's just because of the setup I have with my friends. I'm the &quot;responsible&quot; one who always makes plans and makes sure everyone knows about it and so on. My B-day is the one day a year, when all I have to do is decide what I want to do. Then other people set it up and plan it.

Then it's back to responsible me making sure everyone knows what plans are, and when our next hockey game it, etc. I like the break.
 
First of all, Happy Birthday!!!!! 🙂

Why not compromise? You want to keep the day open, and they want to do something with you. I'd suggest you ask them to go to a nice dinner. Dinner doesn't take too long, and it will make your folks happy. 🙂

Also, try to realize how important this is to them. You are their son, after all, and your birthday is special.
 
Happy early birthday, Viper!!

When all else fails, request cash. 😉 And it wouldn't hurt to accept a nice dinner out...

As for my birthday, it falls on Labor Day. Which also happens to be the first day of class this upcoming fall, in my case. >😵<

September baby,
~kitten >^.^<
 
As you get older, you will have less and less friends and family and truly close friends seem that much more important. There will also be a lot of things vying for your attention. Special occasions become your way of prioritizing time with your loved ones. Don't resent your family, enjoy their company. They are the most important people in your life, and they won't always be around.
 
Mwilding

It's not that I resent them, I just don't like the pressure every year of trying not to offend them with my lack of excitemnet for things relating to my birthday.

Viper GTS
 
I know exactly how you feel. I never like my birthday. I wish everyone would forget about it so i can live it as being just another day... I know they won't forget, I just wish they would.
 
Considering that my own father forgot my birthday this year, and nobody sent a card or called me, you can pretty much assume that it's a dark day to me.

Just another thing that makes me wonder why I'm so damned forgettable.
 
Same thing happened to me on Sunday. No one called... nothing. It would have been nice to get a call. Appreciate it now bub, because those times when no one remembers kinda suck.
 
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