I was circumcised
Assaulted and held hostage for a week in my own apartment, causing me serious injuries and eventual homelessness.
I was going to mention my worst birthday, but it pales in comparison to this. I hope you’re better now.
Well I’m still alive, not really better though.
I spent my ninth birthday at a funeral home because my grandfather died two days earlier.
NOTHING.
Not mine, but my trainee’s. He had planned a big party with friends for his 18th birthday on the day. It was the 9th of November, 2001.
What happened on November 9th?
I’m guessing it was impacted by the September 11th attacks.
Edit: thinking about it more, it could just be a European troll that forgot our dates are swapped around over here. They thought 9/11 was the 9th of November.
Why does the troll have to be european? Most of the world uses DD/MM/YYYY, or some variation of that order.
True, but Europe has the highest likelihood of them speaking English.
It was my 21st. I was new to my city and really only had one friend there at the time. He said he would take me out, we’d have a blast. He took me to a house party and ditched me almost immediately. Turns out he wanted to hook up at the party, left me for 2 hours, and then told me that it would just be a bit longer. They go upstairs, and they keep going until 2am. He was my ride home, and this was before uber.
Got randomly grabbed by the arm by some guy as he started shouting to me about my tattoos and wouldn’t let me go until he finished his drunken ramble. I think he was a tourist for some sort of local football game. Worst part? My “friends” did fuck all, just kept walking, high as shit on ketamine I really didn’t want us to do that day (and myself abstained from). They’re not my friends anymore. I don’t think they ever were. Fuck them.
My ex finally admitted she’d been carrying on a relationship on the side, in case it didn’t work out with me (her reasoning). She admitted it’d been much more than she claimed, she’d even met his parents, etc. After confessing, she started self-harming (hitting herself in face repeatedly for awhile) in front of me. I called 911, very quickly realizing I might be in that scene from Fear/It’s Always Sunny and that this could go very, very badly for me.
Police showed up (~4:00 AM), shining flashlights into windows, waking up my Mormon landlords upstairs.
Thankfully, she sent the police away without incident/my involvement, then left shortly thereafter. She texted around 10 AM that she’d bought me a massage as a birthday gift, which was timely and welcome. She never showed her face again until I ran into her at a birthday party maybe 6-9 months later. Next I heard, she had shaved her head and moved to Indonesia.
Those are the main highlights, anyway.
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My mother told me that I was ruining my birthday because I didn’t want to blow out candles or have singing.
Party was cancelled because my grandpa died
Ouch. I’m only one comment in and hitting a tough one. I’m sorry that happened to you =(
I invited 20 people for my 40th birthday.
3 showed up.
My wife ate too much dough while she baked weed brownies and fell asleep 15 minutes before the guests arrived.So me and my 3 best friends sat around the table and ate a bag of chips, I was the only one to drink alcohol, no one touched the huge amount of food I made, and from upstairs we could hear my wife snoring.
So there I was, sitting on an ammo can, in Iraq. I actually didn’t know it was that day until we had to write down a record of rounds expended.
Last year kind of killed the idea of being happy about my birthday for me. I always used to hope something fun or kind would happen and it never does. Got a text from my best bud in the morning and the rest of the day was just a day. None of my family remembered or if they did, they made a conscious effort to not say anything. Not sure which is worse? I don’t talk to any of them anymore. I’ve pretty much orphaned myself in the last two years or so and I’ve been pretty happy about that to be honest.
This year I just went out and got myself some stuff, hung out with my kid, and played some board games with my wife. It was much better to just not expect anything from anyone.
I’ve done this for a few years - if anyone asks what I want, it’s to spend time with my kid and I’ll get myself something frivolous.
- now that kids are teens and there’s only one left at home, I’ll take any of his time I can get
- I’m a geek, a gadget freak, and I realized long ago that my interests are specific enough to not be worth explaining to people
This year I’m buying myself a new iPad. That’s also well over the limit for gifts (I used to take my ex on trips for hers so she’d have experiences in addition to gifts, but that cost is somewhat hidden)
I bought myself a 3D printer two years ago for my birthday and ended up too depressed to even set it up until about two weeks ago. Still depressed, but now I can print Warhammer models I guess? My wife has commandered the ROG Ally I bought for myself this year, so I’ve been eyeballing the GDP Win Mini for next year. I’m a sucker for clamshell handhelds.
I haven’t really looked into tablets since I think the Nexus 7. My work sent me a really shitty Fire Tab and I rooted it and use it to read comics haha. Have iPads changed much in the last while?
As for explaining interests, I feel you. I’ve honestly found Lemmy really refreshing that I can talk about really anything and there is someone that is interested. It’s been nice to vent.
I’ve been considering a 3D printer for a few years but have no interest in Warhammer models. Seriously, every once in a while I’ll look online to see if I can find a purpose for a 3D printer. Not so far.
With the tablet on the other hand, with streaming and a family of varied interests, I got used to media consumption on an iPad (and either a speaker or headphones, depending). At this point, my TV is more a waste of money, because no one ever watches it. I no longer have any form of stereo, nor a desktop computer, and my laptop is less convenient for media. After seven years, my iPad no longer gets updates and has slowed way down - actually I wonder if there’s something wrong with the WiFi on it. It’s time.
I’ve honestly found Lemmy really refreshing that I can talk about really anything and there is someone that is interested. It’s been nice to vent.
For sure. Sometimes it’s easier to relate to a bunch of strangers with shared interests than those in our lives who have different interests
I didn’t really know what I’d use it for until I actually put it together. I did a test print, then printed a small articulated dragon my 4-year-old thought looked neat while we were browsing Thingiverse. Then we realized we could make Hot Wheel track pieces and it was all over. I’ve also made some small things that I thought would be useful like a wall mount for my work laptop to get it off my desk. It’s also been fun to just kinda learn some 3D modeling and see what is on my screen turn into something in my hand.
I spend probably too much time at my desktop so the little shitty fire tab work sent has actually been a really nice disconnect if my hands start hurting too bad. I’ll just go outside and sit in the sun and read for a bit. Yeah seven years is a long time for a device to stay not broken, let alone still functional nowadays. Sounds like a valid treat-your-self to me.
On my birthday the year my friend died, a few year ago same date my dog died and a few years before that my grandfather died again same date.
I dont like my Birthday and try to be greatful for the people in my life each day and each year.
I was gifted the cheapest and most disgusting sweets money can buy. They looked like they came from the black market. Threw almost all of them away the next day. No other gifts.
Then, I was taken to a restaurant which served some truly disgusting food. To be fair, it had recently changed ownership and used to be decent up to that point.
And that was it for the day. I probably wouldn’t have minded too much, if it hadn’t been a milestone birthday.
