Why birthdays are stupid

The person who arranges this thirty-second ordeal of insincerity does nothing more than put in a request for the performance with some put-upon waitress, who then must round up five more no doubt very busy servers to provide backing vocals.

The six servers show up tableside at Birthday Central and sing with all the enthusiasm of a back alley crack whore sucking off some suburban dad for the crumpled twenty that will buy her her next fix.

Total blankness. And the birthday boy or girl I mean something adult usually sits there with that plastic Laura Bush smile, unable to muster up any real emotional reaction to six bored strangers singing — nay, shouting! The tablemates have similar Stepford Wife expressions, as no real feelings of joy are possible during this exercise in unoriginality.

As soon as the song ends, the stone-faced servers scatter like roaches at the first sign of light and the people at the birthday table never say a word as the letdown from all this faux fun immediately sets in.

Even this miserable bastard gets some birthday love. I go to work, mind my own business and delete every fucking birthday invitation that shows up in my inbox. Ned Bitters is, in fact, overrated. You can contact him at teacherslounge hobotrashcan. I was much to busy celebrating by working all day and finishing out a paper I waited to the last min to do.

I actually forgot it was my birthday until my kids sang to me, so I could not agree more. To Noelle…thanks! Go with Answer B. Damn sane, humble people kill me. Well said! You put those narcissistic assholes into place. I absolutely hate it when people insist that you celebrate their birthday — especially when they make it as a birthday week. What the fuck? I really think that there is a linkage between people who celebrate birthday and low self-esteem as adults.

Concur with the distaste for adults making a big deal out of their birthdays. At least in the USA, here are major life milestones:. In other words, a legal adult. A party might be called for at this milestone.

Exactly agreed. You were born — wow, congrats! What an accomplishment! I find it quite pathetic myself. The text really opened my eyes to what our society has evolved to. Shame, really. Skip to content. Like this: Like Loading Facebook Twitter Pinterest Linkedin. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Debanjali Das - November 13, Especially women colleges Reviews November 13, Finance November 13, We believe in creating responsible news content and attempting to change the reading habits of young India.

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Go out to dinner … again? A good reason to ignore birthdays is that it can all become a bit repetitive, as you end up doing exactly what you did last year and probably at the exact same venue.

Of course, there are more imaginative ways to celebrate, although that then puts you under pressure to find something exciting and different.