It is our birthday.
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Our most memorable birthday is this one, because our memory isn’t that good and other years seem confusing and far away.
What was YOUR favorite birthday? (To be clear, we want to hear about some dope Star Wars toy you got in 1989 or something. Maybe ShowBiz Pizza.)
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Easy.
December 1999, my 10th birthday.
Growing up, my family never had much money and we were very frugal. I remember asking my parents for a Gameboy Color and a Pokémon Game.
I remember telling them that it could be my birthday and Christmas gift for two years if they got one for me. I knew the sacrifice I would need to make to get myself that beauty.
I remember first opening that small box and seeing that lime green Gameboy Color looking back at me and just bursting into laughter/tears.
Joyfully ripping into that second box, waiting to see if I got Pokémon Red, Blue, or maybe even Yellow. I could hardly contain my excitement. Finally, pay dirt, and its…Pokemon Pinball. What. The. Fuck.
I remember seeing my mom gleefully looking on, for my reaction. I remember saying, “Oh, wow. Pokemon has Pinball?!” We snagged the batteries slid the cartridge in and all hundled around that tiny screen. I remember playing it that night for hours until my dad walks up and says, “mom thought without a doubt that was the game you wanted, but I’m pretty sure you want this, never break your mom’s heart, kid!” …pulls out a copy of Pokemon Yellow. I stayed up all night grinding that game. Next day, walking down the stairs, a zombie, with Pokemon Pinball in my Gameboy. I remember her smiling and saying something about staying up too late playing pinball. I kept that up for months!
Best Birthday ever.
@studerc Unequivocally rad.
@jouest @studerc
you had a EXCELLENT dad for a role model!
@studerc I love this
@studerc
That’s a great story.
50th because my sister did a fun old theme party even though her daughter got married the day before. I tried to talk her out of it to not take away from the wedding party but my niece helped. The brat. Still have the fun signs the kids made. Which reminds me, I still owe her for that.
The next one (i.e. tomorrow)… because it means I’m still alive.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My least favorite birthday was 10 years ago, when Meh decided to steal mine…
@JoJoe86 sucker. Happy Birthday though. Probably buy something.
@jouest Thank you! I was (un)lucky enough to get the first IRK. $10 was definitely more than I planned on spending, but here we are.
@JoJoe86 this is the most dubious of honors
@JoJoe86 HBD
@806D2701 Thank you!
Don’t remember any one present that stands out… But I do recall being excited to go Ice Skating once when young.
@OnionSoup this is still a thing. do recommend.
@jouest @OnionSoup
It becomes less appealing when you start to collect Medicare!!
@jouest I would still go if anywhere near me
@chienfou @OnionSoup you need to break a hip from time to time if you really want to extract the most possible value from Medicare…
@chienfou @jouest @OnionSoup I regret that I have only two hips to give.
@chienfou @jouest @mehcuda67 it wasn’t specified that it had to be your own hips you break.
@jouest
Nah, didn’t break mine, just wore it out. Got a new one last summer. Should have done it long ago.
December 1999… 30th birthday… flew to Seattle to see The Knitters in concert.
I had to get a California driver license to replace my Texas one. The doorguy at the club wouldn’t let me in with the paper id even though I was on the list… after sending an expensive text to a band member, the manager was given instruction to deliver me backstage.
LOL! I did have a birthday at ShowBiz Pizza, I think it was my 6th birthday.
But my most memorable one was my 7th birthday. My favorite movie was The Little Mermaid and my mother did an Under-the-Sea theme. She filled the bathtub with water, put filled easter eggs in the water and the guests picked out prizes. She also had a fishing game where we threw a fishing pole (a broomstick with a string and paperclip on the end) over a piece of cardboard and you pulled up things like prizes… or an old shoe LOL.
But that might not be as great as the time she did a carnival themed one where she had a balloon dart board, ring toss, popcorn station, etc.
OORRR maybe it’s the birthday party I just threw for my 12 year old in June where I set up an egyptian themed escape room in our basement. I dressed up in a “egyptian princess” outfit I got from a BOC and the kids had to figure out how to escape an archeological dig site, complete with rosetta stone, broken pyramid, mummy, and more. It took the kids 40 minutes to escape. Yeah… actually I think that was the most memorable because I got the “thanks, mom” from the middle child
@mbersiam um. you’re cooler than ShowBiz and we don’t say that lightly.
@jouest
/giphy aww shucks
@mbersiam Way to create some special moments and show love. Kudos on the awesome parenting!
POPSOCKETS! SPA KITS! POLLY POCKETS! AWESOME!
My grandmother would make doll clothes for us. Santa gave us Chatty Cathy dolls one year (after begging for more than a year for one and watching the previous christmas and our birthdays go by without getting one- was our only Santa present that year outside of underwear, clothes, etc, - we grew up without much) and mom made sure we opened the doll clothes last. We were thrilled. I still have almost all of those clothes she made for our dolls and that doll even though the voice no longer works. In retrospect I am reasonably sure grandma was santa (as I learned later she bought most of our clothes too) but at the time I was convinced that Santa had finally listened to what I wanted since that was the first time ever I had gotten something I had asked Santa for.
Your Grandma > Santa
When I didn’t score an IRK
And I talked meh CS into shipping me a few boxes full of Texas Air so that I could do a joke reveal.
They were bribed with chocolate.
That was fun.
/giphy “Texas air”
@f00l we still have some.
@jouest
Good I was worried it would be hard to source these days.
Also I approve of the April 1 “infinite captcha” event.
That I flunked. But angry, frustration followed by an admiring grin.
/giphy “infinite captcha”
Greetings, new robot friend. In time you will come to accept your robotic ways.
Happy birkday.
@momojiri how did we not come up with this
Actually… my son’s birthday like original birthing day… hours old… I scored my first fuko that day……
@sohmageek big day
This one always comes to mind. I grew up in a blue collar, one income family. We did ok but there was not a lot of extra.
16th bday is coming up and of course I wanted a car. Specifically a 1969 Chevelle SS, I mean it doesn’t hurt to ask
Anyway, got up and mom had decorated, because she is awesome. Had a card and a small box on the table. Obligatory card telling me how much they love me and how proud they are of me.
Open the box and it was A SET OF KEYS!!! OMG, I was dying, I could hardly breathe. Told me it was in the driveway and it was all mine.
Tore through the house, flung the door open and sitting in the middle of the empty driveway is a bright red plastic toy car. About the size a barbie could fit into. I was so pissed. They, on the other hand, thought it was hilarious.
I feel like this experience prepared me for Meh and the anticipation of receiving an Irk
HIKING! VIKINGS! STRIKE KING [BRAND FISHING LURES]! AWESOME!
@tinamarie1974 Oh, MAN!
That was SO MEAN! But yes, hilarious.
@Kyeh oh I still give them trouble all these years later.
@tinamarie1974 Have you gotten them back?
@tinamarie1974 That’s just mean! Parents should remember who will pick their nursing home.
But yes, this does rather prepare you for IRKs.
@brainmist yeah, they already told me they are just moving in here
@brainmist @tinamarie1974
Not unless @CharlieDoggo approves!
They better be nice to both of you!
@brainmist @CharlieDoggo @f00l I have the best parents ever. I would do anything in thr world for them
And Charlie, he loves his papa the best!
@tinamarie1974 Well, it was hilarious, though maybe a bit too mean.
I love the idea of that joke/prank, though I don’t know how to pull it off properly without it turning out mean.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s meh’s birthday today… but it’s also the anniversary of me moving to the US.
@OnionSoup nice! good call. International shipping is a drag
I don’t want to brag, but one year I got to go see Sitr Crazy and The Jazz Singer at the local second-run theater.
Happy birthday, rascally Meh.
Thank you for being our friend.
I could overlook that most of our gifts were wrapped in holiday paper and our shared cake had poinsettias or a sled on it. Because the best birthday present would have to be my little sister. She and I share a birth-day five years apart, five days after Christmas.
@el1c1a by our math, your parents really know how to celebrate National Pencil Day.
@jouest and I just thought they tripped over that same rock while camping…
Happy Birthday Meh!
My birthday is usually opening day of hockey season. We always have a house full of people - great food, great company, and most of the time great wins!
Oh my goodness you finally made it to DOUBLE DIGITS!!! Happy birthday, I hope it’s more magical than the wizzarding world of Harry Potter! As for mine eh not so much usually surrounded by some tragic event. But my mom always tries to make the best of it. And we try to lighten the mood by binge watching classic looney tunes and Monty python mini marathons. And we have done it since the prehistoric vhs times. And I always even till now get something Star Wars related. And the big kid I still am loves it. Oh and my birthday is usually around Easter so when I was in school it was awesome cuz I usually had spring break leading up to or right after my birthday
POPSOCKETS! ROAD ROCKETS! SONNY CROCKETT! AWESOME!
I don’t think I have a favorite birthday, but one of my favorite birthday moments was when my friend sat me down (we were at the goth club) and dumped a grocery bag of cherry blossoms over my head. I loved it.
Just want to say Happy Birthday Meh. And thanks to Snapster for shaking the Amazon dust off his feet and coming up with a new cite. Just hope he doesn’t get tired of this one, too.