It’s my 19th birthday today. My family remembered, but because it is a Monday they are all out at work and school. I had the day off, but that was okay. I went out to dinner with my family and it was lovely.
The main thing that hurt me though was none of my friends remembered, apart from one, but she lives overseas so obviously I could not hang out with her. I planned us a day out, to go see a movie in the morning and carpool to the beach in the afternoon, and go home for dinner and time with the family in the evening.
I hadn’t made a big deal out of my birthday, but my friends did know, because I was talking to them the week before and asking what we could all do together, and we agreed to arrange something when we had an idea. So I figured then they might have remembered on the day, seeing how I told them, and I expect Facebook pops messages up.
Got there, and received a blank on any birthday wishes. Obviously no gifts, which I couldn’t care less about, I just wanted a little ‘Happy Birthday’ and I would have been happy. Nope. Nada. And I just felt rude blurting out “Hey you do know it’s my birthday?”
I get discounts on the movies and everything, because I work there, but when I went up to the counter, they all buggered off and left me to pay for everything, because I couldn’t get their attention to come back over and help pay for all the food and tickets, which still result in a huge amount with all the food they’d ordered. No offer to help pay me, they said they’d buy the pizza and that when we were near the beach.
I drove them all there,with them all being goofy, loud and really distracting me. I had to tell them to cool it or we’d end up in a ditch, and the told me to lighten up and stop being so grouchy and ruining the fun time.
Got to the pizza place. Amazingly two of them had forgotten their wallets for the day! The others didn’t have enough to split the bill themselves, so guess who pitched in her money again?
The beach was alright at first, I will say. We had a nice time there at first. It was chilly, and no-one would join me into braving the water like I really wanted. I got sand in the cracks in my phone screen, which was seriously messing with it, and then beach time was ruined.
I drove them all home too, they thanked me, made no mention of paying me back or a birthday wish (I hadn’t reminded them, because after a while I zoned out myself on that fact).
Only one Facebook happy birthday too. One. I’ve seen countless on their pages…
I feel like an awful complainer, but how should I react to this? Should I be totally pissed off at them for what they did, or just accept the fact they probably innocently forgot and its my fault they didn’t know, because I failed to remind them when I was with them?
Happy birthday to me right xoxo