Monday, January 16, 2006

Birthdays

Today is my brother’s 50th birthday. He thought it was going to be ‘low key’ without all the ‘over the hill’ jokes, no doubt. Sorry – I blew your cover, dear brother. Happy Birthday!

Years ago my father hired a whole billboard ad to announce to the world a friend’s major ‘getting older’ birthday. And a friend of mine once took out an ad in the local small town paper when another friend hit one of those – it said “Lordy, Lordy, Jean Brown is 40.”

What is it about birthdays that brings out such mischief?

1 Comments:

At 11:49 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank you for the birthday wish. It really was rather low key. Being the "baby" of the family kind of limits the cracks about getting older. After all, if I'm "over the hill" then the rest of you must be...

 

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