I had a birthday not too long ago. I turned 27. I had a harder time with this one because I’ve officially entered my “late twenties.” When I was 26, I was still considered in my “mid-twenties,” but once you enter your “late twenties” as a single LDS woman, people start writing you off.
This was confirmed one day last March when I realized nobody had called me for the last 3 days—no friends, no family, no one. As I sat there and looked at my lifeless phone I thought, “is this the beginning of the end? Had I reached that moment when singles in their late 20s fall off the radar and are forever lost and forgotten?”
Well, I told my dad that the next day that no one loves me anymore, he sent the word out for people to call me. I then get a call from my brother Troy the next day, Thursday, March 28, wishing me a “Happy Birthday.” After a moment of confusion, and I realized my dad must have said something to my family. I told Troy thanks but to save it for another couple months: my birthday is May 28.
That evening I also received an email from my brother Brandon in California who wished me a happy birthday and asked how I was doing. After I rolled my eyes I emailed back, “I’m doing good, but I’ll be doing better in 2 months when it’s ACTUALLY my birthday.”
Even though Brandon, Troy, and Dad don’t know when my birthday is, it makes me feel a little better that my family comes through with “it’s-so-and-so’s-birthday” text messaged across the Badger family network.
When my birthday did finally come my friends took me golfing and whipped up some homemade strawberry shortcake.
**So if you’re dating Jenny, just know she likes golf and strawberry shortcake, and she now doesn’t like birthdays.
2 Responses to “The Beginning of the End”
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
July 8th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Classic, this sounds like the plot for the movie sixteen candles.
Guys are so bad at remembering dates, don’t take it personally, in fact many of them would forget their own birthdays if they didn’t have wives and mothers.
Anyway, happy birthday!
July 8th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
need to clarify the birthday text:
In order to truly understand this story you need some background information. In the Badger family, birthday’s are not remembered. Since this is the case, there is an unwritten rule that if you happen to realize its someone’s birthday, you are then responsible for notifying the rest of the family members (usually via text messaging). Thus, it is not uncommon, to suddenly be bombarded with 6 text messages within 5 minutes of each other late in the afternoon of your birthday. So when my desperation call went out, it was misinterpreted as a “birthday reminder” that resulted in many of ‘happy birthday’ texts 2 months before my ACTUALLY birthday.