$19.70

[cos]

On Tuesday, I went to lunch with nchanter. When we got the check, I saw that it was for $19.70, and said "1970, that's the year I was born". She blinked and said "wait, I thought you were 32!". It's true, when I figure my age, I usually have to subtract 1970 then add a year because my birthday is so late in the year. I started to respond with something like, "Yes, I am 32, because my birthday is in late November so it hasn't come yet" but then I stopped myself mid-sentence.

I had started to figure how long it would be until my birthday, and realized, it was that very day - Tuesday was November 25th. Oops! nchanter was highly amused, and also paid for my lunch.

That evening, I went to dinner with her, to meet a reporter. The reporter bought us ice cream, and bought her friends an ice cream pie, and the total for our ice cream and her pie was also $19.70

I often forget my birthday, and I usually don't do anything for it. But this time the universe conspired to remind me, and it was a very amusing birthday experience.

(Yeah, seeing nchanter twice in the same day is pretty unusual. I'm not complaining!)

Comments

[sandhawke.livejournal.com]

happy birthday, kid. :-)

[exoterica.livejournal.com]

Rock on and happy birthday! What a wonderful creature you are, forgetting your birthday and such...
Enjoy the rape of natives day! I'm cooking yams, carrots and persimmon with masala....I decided to rape the spice islands instead.

[anna-phylaxis.livejournal.com]

:) I hope you have a good year.

[smallbug.livejournal.com]

sorry this is late, i forgot we have the same birthday. HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY.

[points.livejournal.com]

I'd wish you a happy one, but then I'd have to stop and think when -mine- is, too.

[summerrose.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!
What was the reporter about? Is this something we'll be able to read about in a paper?

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday. I'll be catching up in a month. :-)

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday cos!

[exponentialdk.livejournal.com]

... and here's Happy Birthday from one more!

[ciaan]

Happy birthday!

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday, you silly birthday forgetting person! :)

('sok, I only know when mine is because my Palm reminds me)

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

cute :)

Happy birthday. Sounds like it was a good one.

[sunspiral.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

[cos]

polyamory.

If the story makes print, I'll post a link in my LJ.

[cos]

Ahh, I didn't know that. Now you'll be one of the few people whose birthdays I might remember :)

[sophaeia.livejournal.com]

many happy returns of the day!

in fact.. many happy returns of *every* day!...

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

Yay being older! It means you're even closer to the age when people stop bothering you about being silly!

Although I still contend that you don't actually get older, you only gain experience points. . .

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Yay for birthdays! I know you don't usually observe yours, or I would have said happy birthday earlier. Yours is easy to remember, it's right between mine and Est0's.

*hugs*
LMG