English is not my first language. So when I had first started learning English upon moving to an English-speaking country, I saw an episode of Spongebob where one of the characters hung up a banner for Spongebob's bday that said: "It's a boy!" So I thought:"Oh, so this is what English-speaking people say to someone who's celebrating their birthday!" And so came the birthday of one of my first English-speaking friends. I wrote "It's a girl!" on her card in colourful bold letters, real proud of myself, thinking: "She's gonna love it." I still can't forget her face when she saw the card.
On my 9th birthday my dad told me we were going to go see hannah Montana because she came to his office and it ended up being a random blonde lady who could play guitar.
For my 5th birthday my mum rented a big hall so all my friends could come celebrate, bought a huge-ass chocolate cake, and arranged for us all to get a minibus to a water park and spend the day there. I was super excited but on the day of the party I woke up with chickenpox. Mum didn't want to cancel the party and picked up all my friends anyway so I stayed at home sick while all my friends celebrated my birthday without me.
Well that's messed up. When your kid is sick you DONT FRICKN CELEBRATE WITH OUT THEM! You cancel the party. It's doesn't matter if you disappoint the guest, it's worse to dissapoint your own fricking child
Marina Diaz I agree. And you might as well not plan a party if you hate having to and you yell at your kid not to get their clothes for the occasion dirty. Children are hypersensitive, it damages as much as not bothering to plan one at all. Trust me, been there, done that.
When I was 5 my dad bought a birthday cake with three candles instead of five and when asked about this he simply laughed quietly to himself and said "they grow up so fast."
***** That's sweet of you! I'm gonna do the same when my parents do things like this. They're in their old ages too. My mom sometimes offers to get me some juice and puts a piece of candy at the bottom so when I finish I can find it! She also ask to borrow my hand bags and when she returns them she purposely leaves money and change in them. Then she'll ask me "Mimi, did you see what left you?" Sometimes some things they do are annoying but I'll try not to make my annoyance too blatant.
My grandma used to make my birthday cakes, except she would always make them with nuts in the batter, which she loved, but I couldn't eat because I'm allergic. My parents would remind her every year, but she either never listened or didn't know what "'allergic'" meant.
For my fifteenth birthday, I got a Steven Spielberg biography. For my sister's fifteenth birthday, she got a trip to Disneyland (even though we live in Florida and could have easily gone to Disneyworld).
I never understood why parents would treat their children so differently. Then I remembered that my grandma promised to take us all on a trip individually- my older sister went to Africa on safari, and I went to Washington DC (we lived in Virginia)
So me and my sibling have birthdays 1 day apart, for my birthday I spent the day at my Grandma's with no cake or anything. For my sibling's birthday he went to Disney World.
On my 23rd birthday my parents and I wanted to go out to a restaurant for my birthday dinner. My dad was behind the wheel, my mom on the passenger seat and I wanted to get in the back but there was a lot of stuff lying on the seat. So I closed the door and wanted to get in on the other side of the car but when my dad heard the door close he thought I was in the car and drove off. It was winter and already dark so he did not see him waving and screaming in the driveway. It took them 15 minutes to notice that I was not in the car. My dad even talked to me in the car and assumed I was listening to music and that's why I did not answer.
Alena that sort of happened to me ok so me and my family were going to the beach but I wasn't ready yet so they left without me and didn't even notice until 30 minutes later my brother even noticed that I wasn't there when they left and he didn't say a word they didn't even leave to come pick me back up bc they were already there but on the bright side I got icecream after they got home!
Hahahahahah we had a similiar situation. We left without my brother until m dad was like "something is missing" We were driving to my sister's wedding 😂😂😂😂
+A Yo My brother was born on September 11th too! You just gave me an idea of what to do for him this year.....................(needless to say my brother is not my favorite person)
+iwashungry4hands Using a 9/11 memorial just to be petty towards your brother really would make you look like an awful, awful person. Seriously, I'd reconsider because once you did something like that, there's just no going back. It's just about as close to scraping the bottom of the barrel as it gets. People literally jumped to their deaths rather than face being burned alive - taking someone there for their birthday, or any other supposed "celebration" just to hurt someone is incredibly disrespectful and childish. Not to mention Karma would positively bitch slap you into eternity.
When I was 3 Barney came to my party and the time I though he was real, but the man took off the costume in front of me and that's how I realized that Barney wasn't real. Lol I was traumatized
Ooh I have a twin sister too. Last year all my friends got me present but none of hers did. Lucky they were nice enough and my friends gave presents to my sister.
I feel this. My twin always had more friends show up to our birthday parties. And the first time I had “happy birthday” sung to me individually was my 19th birthday, by my favorite singer over Skype. Sis was in the room but she was asleep. Later that day, I wore a tiara and birthday banner and she didn’t, so I got free stuff and birthday wishes while she got nothing. She kept saying “it’s my birthday too!”
On my 16th birthday I took my SATs. When my family came to meet me for a birthday lunch, everyone was crying. Our dog had unexpectedly died. My dad, who really loved this dog, cried the whole rest of the day. Happy birthday to me.
My parents separated when I was two & divorced when I was four since he was a sorry abusive alcoholic. During my 8th birthday party, he showed up uninvited & announced that he named me Mistie because I was a mistake. Gee, what a great father.
Ajay Gustafson Not really. Just shows we were WAY better off without him. Especially since he started to make it his mission in life to make me cry. What a pathetic individual. Literally the only helpful things he ever taught me was how to change car brakes, that coarse black pepper seals radiator holes & that pickle juice can ease heartburn. What a waste of space he was!
No Name Gosh, thanks! I can certainly say it isn't common. I think I've found maybe three or four other people whose name is spelled the same way online. You know, it was HIS loss. I've been told that I was a great daughter to my mom, and it was his choice to miss out on that. That's how I try to look at it, anyway. :-)
Hope you are doing better now. You definitely beat me on worst birthday ever this wasn’t my worst but it’s up there: I spent my 21st recovering from tracheotomy revision 2 days before. All I could eat was soft blended food- aka no cake. I was allowed a lemon bar though but my mom got in an argument with the doctor and instead of spending the day with me left early cuz she was upset and burnt out.
My birthday is on 28 December so I never had a birthday cake at school. I once told this to a colleague while we were lamenting about our school days, he decided to surprise me by giving me a banana cake at work on my actual birthday - I'm allergic to bananas. Felt so bad I ate it anyway but ran to the chemist next door straight away for antihistamines. Ended up under my desk for the rest of the day in an allergic/antihistamine induced sleepy time.
My sons birthday is December 28 too ,his due date was January 6 but the doctor Induced me the 28th before he left to India for a month lol I should of waited poor little guy is 6 and never had a party yet no one has time to hang out so close to new years and right after Christmas 🙁
I'm the 29th- I FEEL this deep. It's the worst. In 30 years the only person to make an actual effort on my birthday is my husband. My parents forgot 14,15,16 AND 17. They remembered 18 at 6pm and drunk dialed me 🤷
if you look closely on the next card when he accidentally picks them up upside down, there's a joke there for the hepatitis lady which he also doesn't use. I think these are there to help him if he gets stuck. I also think he's gotten a lot less funny over the years though.
The day before my eleventh birthday, I took a test, next day (my birthday), the teacher gave the tests back and I got an F!! I started crying and just because it was my birthday, he changed it to an A
bella follower same but here is my story we took a test but the teacher did not teach us that chapter so I failed and I got so angry 😡 and now I regret taking that test
#MyWorstBirthday i went to buy soda from grocery and my neighbor's German Shepherd was loose and he ran after me for 5 blocks, i never ran that much in my life
Last year on birthday I was in my first period class and we had to move to a different room (that wasn't even a class room) so they could fix the problem in our actual classroom. The bell rang to say class was over and apparently I took too long to leave. I was locked in that room for an hour and a half while the rest of the school attended an assembly.
+Vyselink of course all jokes are written, but telling the joke that it is funny is also a talent! All the Interviews on the show are rehearsed and they know what "funny story" they will tell on the show, the stories are real but they talked about what story the will tell beforhand. that is why the Nicole Kidman interview was so raw and entertaining because he didn't know the story, it was his genioun reaction...
A family friend of ours threw a party for her son's 1st birthday. She got cake, gift bags, decorations, everything. But no one showed up because she forgot to invite everyone.
+Nitrus I did. I supposed Jimmy knows Tim, that's why he said "He's a good man". Turns out Tim tweeted it immediately. That kind of sweet and heart warming plots makes you wanna keep watching Jimmy Fallon
my worst birthday WAS my 15th when I finally got to see my extended family on my birthday for once but my 17year old sister blew out my candles but my "sweet" 16th topped that because my whole family forgot my birthday altogether and when I reminded them my dad said "um... happy birthday." and handed me a jar of peanut butter.
I had a huge party for my husband's 50th birthday, the surprise was his nieces and brother from a state three days drive away. It was great! I cooked for 80 people but forgot the cake! Sent his brother for a cake. He had them write on it "Bald Bastard's 50". on it.
my sixth birthday my mother showed up two hours after school ended with cupcakes. the teacher and i watched charlotte's web together because the other kids had to catch their bus or walk home. my mother walked in to an empty classroom holding twenty four cupcakes as though she thought all the children would still be there.
Worst birthday? Was not mine but still: I got invited to a kid's birthday party in elementary school. He invited a couple of kids I knew he was friends with and then rounded out the party with a bunch of us other kids. I think his mom made him invite us all. "Invite more people please and be nice to them!" Most of us didn't really like him but "hey, cake and party favors! Why not?" We get to his house and my mom drops me and my friend Brian off. We go inside and his mom angrily scolds us for not taking off our sneakers in house. We have to all sit on the floor and after several long minutes of awkward silence, his bossy freckle faced red headed older sister comes in and hands one of us a ball. "Get in a circle!! Now!!" we then play some old lame "singing and passing game" where we have to sing a song and pass the ball around. like hot Potato but older and more boring. After an HOUR of this his mom comes in and says she's going to McDonald's to but us all lunch. She asks if anyone of us would like anything other than a hamburger. Me and Brian say we would like Mc Nuggets. Didn't eat hamburgers at the time I was a picky eater as a kid. We file into his formal dining room and sit quietly until his mom comes back with the burgers. Se loudly slams the door and announces to us how "inconvenient" it was that she had to get two orders of McNuggets instead of just twenty burgers. She asked if anyone wanted something else before she left and then yelled at us when we did? hmm.. we had to eat "quietly with table manners" our food. No jokes, no talking, no elbows on the table and don't spill anything on the good tablecloth. Then the cake and birthday song which we all had to sing loudly. "Can't you guys sing better than that? Oh for crist's sake! Do I have to sing it all by myself!" Someone sang 'And you look like a monkey.." and his grandmother didn't like it. More angry talking down to form the birthday boy. "You're ruining it!! Nana doesn't like it!!!" A small cake his mom cut into microscopic pieces for us. Vanilla with white frosting. "Mom, I get the biggest one okay, mine has to be the biggest.. HEY his is too big!! Make them smaller!! Mine is the biggest!!" Heaven forbid any white icing get on his white lace tablecloth. After lunch it got even more boring. Our host let it be known he didn't like us and wanted to go up to his room with his best friend and leave us all. His mom freaked and demanded he stay downstairs and play with us. More awkward silence. We see a huge toy box filled with plastic He-Man armor. I mean FILLED. He had it all! So we all ran up grabbed swords and shields and helmets and got to town roughhousing like maniacs. We had had it. We were going to make this OUR party. He flipped out because he though he we were going going to break his He Man armor and grabbed it out of our hands. He threw it back in the toy box, sat on the floor, glared at us and pouted. His sister then comes in and again DEMANDS we play some pin the tail on the donkey type game with many strict rules, lots of quietly waiting out turn, and no fun of any kind. For another HOUR.. And it has some song we have to sing with it! Another damn corny song!! Finally he announces the party is over. Just like that. "Get out! The party is over.. go home!" Thank god my mom and the other parents were waiting outside already. And no party favors handed out. NONE. I was soon happy to go home. And I had to thank him for the party the next day in class and got the cold shoulder! WTF! Didn't like your lame ass party anyways David!!!!
It's really weird how the interactions between Fallon and Higgins seems kind of forced sometimes. I don't think Fallon likes him stealing the limelight cos sometimes he sort of waves off his jokes in this dismissive way. They can be separately funny but they don't gel together very well comedically as they're constantly in competition for the last laugh and it's a bit awkward to watch. questlove's disgusted face at the hepatitis bit killed me
My worst birthday was in 2012 my 23rd birthday. My best friend & I worked in the same company at that point she hadn't been talking to me for about 4 months. On the day she changed her display pic to one about people who don't apologise etc etc. When I didn't even know why she stopped talking to me & ignored me in the first place. Her friends in the company had also stopped talking to me & on the same day I met one of her friends in the lift (elevator). I said hi & greeted him only for him to give me the worst look & turn his back on me in a lift full of people. I was already upset & now I was embarrassed. I then met a couple of colleagues & one of them usually picked on me for fun (not in a mean way) i told him it wasn't a good day & could he please give me a break that day. He continued what he was doing & I burst into tears. After that he felt really bad & asked what he could do to make it up, so I asked for a special lunch. Every year since he got me the same lunch on my birthday.
Um, so why didn't you ask her why she stopped talking to you? Obviously this wasn't a very important friendship for either of you if neither of you tried to get passed this misunderstanding you were having & tried fixing it & moreover she was badmouthing you...best friends?! I don't think so. You didn't even try to find out why the other ppl were rude to you?...I mean, I guess I wouldn't care, but you obviously did.h
#MyWorstBirthday was my last year, when I turned 16; I invited around 10 peeps and my mother had to cook the right amount and I was also inviting some musicians (who were among the invited friends) to jam out so I also had to haul my drum kit and amplifiers down too... No one came....save for one guy.
Feeling this so deep. Drove to my parents house 3 hours away from my friends cause they said they wanted to celebrate my birthday with me. As soon as I get home they tell me I look trashy and start insulting all my life choices. Love it.
I have a tie for my worst birthdays, except they're more depressing than funny.. D: My 13th birthday, I woke up, it was my dad's weekend, he didn't wish me a happy birthday or get me any kind of present, and then he made me sit through church and sent me home afterward. My 19th birthday, my parents got in a huuuge fight the night before, but I didn't know, and so no one was talking to each other all day. When we actually went out to a movie, everyone started screaming at each other and at the end of the night I ended up alone in my car and crying. Wonderful.
My worst birthday was my 22nd birthday. I went to see a movie with friends, started crying halfway through so I walked out, then later that evening I ran away from home without telling anyone, walked across town to my sister's house to tell her how awful I was feeling, but she was out, so I sat outside her house in the street crying for an hour and a half. I have bipolar but wasn't diagnosed until I was 25 and I don't know how I even survive any more. It always gets bad around my birthday for some reason.
Thanks guys, I actually just got my meds upped so I'm feeling more normal than I've felt in ages and I'm actually laughing at stuff which I never do. Now I just need a job.
imrealcharmybee It is a reference to an animated sitcom called "Family Guy". There is a character in the family called Meg, and one of the running jokes of the show is that everyone in the family hates her and treats her like garbage.
My best friend has forgotten my birthday for the past three years in a row, and I've known her for about 16 years. And my boyfriend (now ex) wished my happy birthday the day /after/ two years in a row. Sigh.
KaizerMan Everyone is different, man. Some things mean more to some than they do to others. And it doesn't upset me anymore, per se, but it has become quite an annoyance to have someone I've known my entire life to always forget.
One year my mum started doing a countdown to my birthday. "it's someone's birthday in 5 days!", "I wonder who is going to be getting presents in 4 days?", etc. You get the picture. So I was getting excited for my birthday despite how most of my birthdays turned out in the past because I thought at least they remembered this year. So come my birthday I don't hear the expected comments or anything and so wait thinking they're building suspense till the evening. Yeah, no. Two days later my mum remembered about my birthday and asked said "it was your birthday afew days ago, what did you end up doing for it?". I'm not sure what my response was supposed to be. I'm at school, with no money, and not allowed to go out with friends or call them or have them come over and the only one who seemed to remember i had a birthday then forgot it so...?
When I was in 3rd or 4th grade, not a single person came to my birthday party. When I got back to school Monday I realized that my invitations were in my desk and I had forgotten to hand them out. I spent the whole weekend crying and feeling so sad I didn't have any friends, and it turned out to be my own fault!! Thankfully my parents were cool about it and let me have a do over the next weekend 😊
On my 7th birthday my parents forgot to pick me up from Sunday school the worst part is it wasn't one of those my mom thought my dad picked me up and my dad thought my mom picked they just flat out forgot about
For my 16th birthday in July, i had invited a majority of my family but only 3 of them came. I had a small cake and one present; socks. Then I was told that because no one knew what to get me, a majority of the family decided not to come. For little sister's 12th birthday in November, everyone came and she got a bunch of presents and a huge cake.
my worst birthday? the one without my mom. Everyone who is reading this, go hug your mom really tight and say I love you oh queen of hearts.( or some other nice phrase)
pretty much all my birthday parties from age 5 to age 10 were my worst. i'd have anxiety attacks and breakdowns. so after that i stopped inviting more than 1 friend over until my 17th (which went awesome) also, my parakeet died on my 11th birthday, and most of my family was busy all day, and it was stormy, so that was a horrible day.
My worst birthday was when I turned 13 and I asked my mom if she could drive me to the movies for my birthday so I could hang out with my friends (that was gonna be all I did for my birthday). she said "Today is Sunday! You know Sunday is my rest day, No I'm not taking you!" In comparison my BEST BIRTHDAY was when I turned 15 and she actually dropped me off at the movie theater
My family forgot my birthday and instead chose to celebrate my cousins graduations. When they remembered, they sloppily wrote "Happy B-Day L" on the edge of my cousins graduation cake.
+KaizerMan why would she have to remind them? They should remember that makes no sense everyone expects family to say happy birthday and celebrate them
Sage Lake Because everyone is excited for their birthday and speaks about it to their parents before or at least mentions and then their parents are reminded. I'm not saying she should have been expecting them to forget and have to remind them, I'm saying she should have spoke about it in the days leading up if she hadn't like 99% of people do in the lead up to their birthday
On my 16th birthday, my friends and I all went to hang out at the mall. One of my friends brought a friend of hers who was rude and pessimistic and just made the whole thing a bit of a drag. Once they left, the two friends that were still there walked off with their arms linked together and left me behind. I had to follow them around so I could feel like I was a part of something. That was MY worst birthday....but then my old middle school friends and I went out for Chinese and it kinda made up for the horrible afternoon.
My twin forgot about my birthday one year. The same twin that did this: Mom: I love you everyday that ends in 'y'. Twin Sister: Why only Sunday? Mom: Yeah, because I don't love you on Monda, Tuesda, Wednesda, Thursda, Frida, or Saturda. Only Sunday... How can someone be that dumb and look identical to me?! It's insulting.
When I was a teenager, at my family birthday party I opened a birthday gift from my brother and it was a bag full of my own things that I’d been looking for for months, labeled “these are the things you left around the house this year”. I’m still mad about it
my Worst Birthday Was my 16th Birthday,&,it Was Really my Own Undoing Due to The Fact That I Had ADHD at The Time,it Was at Our Local Bowling Alley That Also Had a Arcade,I Got Bored in The Middle of All of us Kids Bowling,my Mom Had to Come Looking For me,She Found me Playing 1 of The Games in The Arcade
My worst birthday was my 11th. My mom was away on business in Australia, so it was just my dad and my brother. The morning when I woke up, my brother told me that I was so horrible I didn't deserve to have a birthday. When I went to school, all my friends forgot about it, and when I came home, I ate cake with my brother alone trying to FaceTime my mom. My brother had practice so my dad took me out to On the Border with just the two of us to celebrate. We are vegetarian, and when we ordered cheese quesadillas they put chicken in them so we couldn't eat them. But I an lucky enough to have such a great dad, because the whole time he tried to tell me a bunch of jokes to cheer me up.
My cousin's Birthday is April 1. He had been thinking over when he might be able to propose to his girlfriend. When they got together on his Birthday, she told him that she was breaking up with him and moving to Florida to go to school. The punchline never came.
Could you imagine a family guy episode when Louis griffin bought a 4th of July cake and put "and mega" on the cake and it the cake would say"happy birthday America and Meg" oh boy
13th birthday. I had a sleepover with my friends at my house. Everything went well until everyone started to ignore me and I hid under my bed for an hour. Everyone started crying after that. Why cant I have a birthday without any drama? Every party always ends up with drama and I end up crying in the end and being ignored the whole time.
