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<blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 2666572" data-attributes="member: 8447"><p>There have been good birthdays and bad birthdays.</p><p></p><p>My worst was my 13th. First of all, I was sick as a dog so I couldn't have any of the usual birthday goodies. Secondly that was the year of the Practical Birthday. My mom gave me a plain seat to replace the dying one on my bicycle. My dad gave me a razor, but I hadn't grown anything to shave yet. Other folks gave me paper, binders, pens -- nothing fun or special at all. All immensely practical. I wept.</p><p></p><p>My best is a tie -- my 25th and my 40th. For 25 I threw myself a "Quarter Century Party". I was about to leave California for New Hampshire, I was in the last throes of working for a pizza parlour (well, managing it), a job I had held for 5 1/2 years, and I had a good number of friends. I put together 5 90-minute tapes to provide all the music for the party (I do a pretty damn good mix), had a couple big roasts, lots of beer and wine, soda for those who didn't drink, and told everyone to come dressed as their favourite self -- personally, I wore a victorian kilt (Clan Donald of the Isles, if you need the tartan) and a Mad Tea Party t-shirt. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> For my 40th I held a "Pre-Emptive Strike Party", beating all the "Over The Hill" parties to the punch. Everyone got together at a nice Italian restaurant, we had fantastic food, lots of jokes, many memories shared, and then I went out with four friends for the rest of the night and got extremely drunk (something usually out of character, but it seemed right at the time). Ah, memories... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wombat, post: 2666572, member: 8447"] There have been good birthdays and bad birthdays. My worst was my 13th. First of all, I was sick as a dog so I couldn't have any of the usual birthday goodies. Secondly that was the year of the Practical Birthday. My mom gave me a plain seat to replace the dying one on my bicycle. My dad gave me a razor, but I hadn't grown anything to shave yet. Other folks gave me paper, binders, pens -- nothing fun or special at all. All immensely practical. I wept. My best is a tie -- my 25th and my 40th. For 25 I threw myself a "Quarter Century Party". I was about to leave California for New Hampshire, I was in the last throes of working for a pizza parlour (well, managing it), a job I had held for 5 1/2 years, and I had a good number of friends. I put together 5 90-minute tapes to provide all the music for the party (I do a pretty damn good mix), had a couple big roasts, lots of beer and wine, soda for those who didn't drink, and told everyone to come dressed as their favourite self -- personally, I wore a victorian kilt (Clan Donald of the Isles, if you need the tartan) and a Mad Tea Party t-shirt. ;) For my 40th I held a "Pre-Emptive Strike Party", beating all the "Over The Hill" parties to the punch. Everyone got together at a nice Italian restaurant, we had fantastic food, lots of jokes, many memories shared, and then I went out with four friends for the rest of the night and got extremely drunk (something usually out of character, but it seemed right at the time). Ah, memories... ;) [/QUOTE]
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