I like my birthday. I don’t make anyone else celebrate it, but it’s kinda fun to take the day off work and have cake and champagne for breakfast.
Boyfriend has his 50th coming up. He’s not celebrating, which makes life easier for me - no party to plan, no gifts to buy. I’ll get him some socks and a bottle of whiskey, bake a cake that I like and call it done.
And who wouldn’t want to have a few beers and take a fire truck ride to the bouncy castle to let off a few fireworks at a BBQed donkey. I’m in. Invite, and the faintest idea of where this shindig is be damned.
Until then, if you want to be that miserable crank who refuses to celebrate, knock yourself out. I have no fucks to give over that. However, when you tell everyone else what they can’t celebrate, well then you can go shove a pineapple so far up your over-entitled ass that it comes out your nose. I’ll celebrate my birthday however the fuck I want, and if you don’t like it then tough shit.
So you really want me to continue? Okay. I wanted to spend some time with someone who I really care about. However, they couldn’t do it because they had to accommodate someone who has contributed nothing to society yet feels that because it’s “their” birthday the world should stop to honor the fact that they happened to have been born (as if it hasn’t happened to anyone before). It’s annoying and stupid how self absorbed some people can be. Nobody wanted any part of it but it’s “family” so there was implied obligation.
All that being said, I’m amused but not surprised at some of the responses to the OP. This is the Pit. It’s a place to rant and get shit off your chest. Taking everything literally that is posted in the Pit is foolish.
I thought you were a sensitive and self-loathing and artistically-suicidal soul like myself, ready to play the Lovedeath from Tristan und Isolde with his lover on a Bosendorfer grand piano before the two of you hurled yourselves into the churning waters of the Rhine.
Now I see you were just counting on a piece of ass who bagged on you because she had to go to her brother-in-law’s birthday party. VERY disappointing. Couldn’t you just whack off?
The birthday boy or girl thought the world should stop? That’s a little dramatic. It seems maybe your special someone was being there for a family member despite wanting to be doing something else. That’s makes them a pretty nice person, as opposed to being a shitty whiner when they didn’t get their way.
That is insulting. It’s nothing like that. No need for a comment like that. I can easily get a “piece of ass”. Caring about someone who cares about me is a totally different thing.
BTW, I don’t need to be psychoanalyzed by anonymous people on a message board. I can find my own therapy to deal with the multitude of issues, not of my making, that I struggle with.