BirthdaysMy best birthday so far was my 30th, when I held a Polish Bear Hunting evening in some woods - everyone dressed up in hunting gear, ate a Polish hunting stew round a big fire and then, armed with torches, ran out to find the foil-wrapped chocolate bears I'd hidden in the trees.
My worst so far was my first at university - my birthday was the first official day of term, so I thought there'd be loads of people there to have fun with. No, Cambridge is so posh nobody actually turns up on the first night. I got very drunk with the barman.
What extremes of birthdays have you had?
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chthonic, Fri 9 Dec 2005, 11:07)
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The Wisdom of My 21st and the Greatness of My 25th.It was the Easter holiday at university so I went to visit my parents. Once there, over the course of about four hours, my cheek started to swell a little. Just another little wisdom tooth flare-up, I thought.
Wrong.
Over the course of the evening, the pain went from mildly annoying to searing agony. Much later that night, I had to wake my dad up to drive me to casualty - the pain was unrelenting and the swelling was, by that time, the size of a tennis ball. Tears were streaming down my cheeks and I had eyes like Cartman's when he's in a bad mood.
Got to Casualty and the triage nurse asked me my date of birth. I told her.
She said, "No, love - that's today. What's your date of birth?"
"Twenty-one years ago today," I drooled.
"You poor sod," she replied.
Four years later (devoid of wisdom teeth)I was at Manchester Airport, waiting for my girlfriend (now my wife) to arrive from the States. Doesn't get much better than that!
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