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Age Roll Call
Carl-E:
0_o
Why do the easy answers never come in time?
celticgeek:
No, no. We want to keep changing the ages, to give cesium133 more work.
Redball:
Hunh! I'll turn 76 in June.
The last time my age was overstated was at my 49th birthday. My wife invited people to a birthday party and advertised it as my 50th. I wasn't actually all that bothered by that, but then on my 50th, she and our daughter went down to visit my in-laws in Tennessee. That hurt! And my daughter told me recently my wife went out of town deliberately.
(click to show/hide)My wife figured she had a good reason, though. Just before we were married, for her 30th, I invited friends to a surprise party on the day of her birthday, but did so in Clara's presence. Friends looked at her and at me with puzzlement. I asked Clara whom she wanted me to invite, and added them. On the day of the party, I got her out of the house. We returned to find just two couples. "Surprise!" Bummer! We went to a nearby pizza place, and the rest of the two dozen were there. Clara was so pissed she couldn't talk for 20 minutes, and she clearly never forgot.
Method of Madness:
A double surprise! Does...does she hate surprises or something? I don't see how that could make someone mad, much less "so pissed she couldn't talk for 20 minutes" and holding a grudge about it decades later.
Redball:
I truly set her up to believe an ordinary party at home was ahead. No one showed. They were all elsewhere. She had a hard time dealing with it, and over the years, I simply accepted that.
Getback was celebrating 50th on my 49th, which was sort of a fail for her, so the next year was her next best thing.
We had a good 40-plus years, and that just added some texture to a good marriage, better than I ever expected given my parents' marriage and my first one. I'm a widower. I'd like to try it again, but I guess I'd skip the surprises.
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