birthday blunders

Have you ever been guilty of committing a birthday blunder? Have you ever had someone commit a blunder on your birthday? Most people mean well on someone's birthday and never intend to make someone's birthday less special, but sometimes we make a mistake that ruins their day. We might forget someone's birthday or treat someone rudely. We might combine the two. The reason I bring this up is not because anyone has done this to me on my birthday today (at least yet...the choice is yours). I bring it up because it came up in discussion the other day and I thought it would be an appropriate day for me to post it. I want to give you two humorous stories (maybe not to some parties involved) about some birthday blunders (one is personal; one happened to someone I know, but I was not involved). Then I would love to hear some of your own, whether they occurred to you or by you. 1. During my junior year of college, I was blessed to have my brother Jon attend CBC with me. I was very excited that he had chosen to come and was thrilled to have family so close by. Also at school was my good friend Jesse Cook. My brother and Jesse shared a birthday...January 17. I had always thought of that day as my brother and sister's (Shan's birthday is also that day) birthday. But my first two years of college, I had taken that day to celebrate Jesse's birthday. During my junior year, they were both there. Thus, there were two people close to me whose birthday it was that day. The choice should not have been tough. Clearly, I should have chosen to celebrate the day by taking my brother out to eat, right? But I didn't. I ignorantly chose to go out to dinner with my friends to celebrate Jesse's birthday. My poor choice in whose birthday to celebrate wasn't the worst part of it though. The worst part was that I was broke and went to Jon and asked him if I could have some money so I could go out with my friends to celebrate Jesse's birthday. Looking back, that's clearly not one of my prouder moments. 2. As the story is told by my friend's son, my friend promised to take his son out for his 8th birthday. At some point and somehow, he forgot about it and proceeded to take his son's friends out for ice cream...WITHOUT HIS SON!!! When he arrived home, he realized his gaff and tried to make it up to his son, but it was too little, too late. I'm not sure that it gets much worse than taking your kid's friends out without you for ice cream on your birthday. These stories are sad but true (the first one I know for sure and the second is alleged, but I'm confident in its accuracy). Which of the two is worse? Do you have one that is worse than or on par with these? Let me know. Sorry again Jon.