27-06-2005 00:08									#31
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Two stories, neither exciting.

For my 40th, I threw a huge party. As I was bringing up the last of the party stuff, I suddely realized by male-chauvanistic brother and my hyperfeminist girlfriend were alone together. I ran upstairs but to my amazement, they were talking civilly.

One thing that almost wrecked my party was the sheer number of the you're-getting-old birthday cards. There were dozens of them, and cumulatively, they had their effect. Four months after my birthday, a former girlfriend of mine -- who is very sensitive about her age -- had hers. I sent a card saying:

quote: By now, you've received a ton of birthday cards from your "friends" telling you that you're losing your looks and that you're over the hill. That bad news is that that's true. The good news is that your have more good looks left over than what most women have to start with, so don't worry about it. Hubba, hubba.

Oooh, I got cudos for that one.

	27-06-2005 00:38									#32
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On my 18th birthday (actually the day before), my friends arranged for me a crappy surprise birthday party that included lots of lame presents they bought for me at like 7-11 and Target. The only thing odd about the surprise birthday party was the giant gift box in the middle of the room. Eventually they started to sing happy birthday, and then an amazingly beautiful woman popped out of the box. The next day, she was girlfriend. We've been together for nearly eight months.

(I'd been talking to this person online for several months. We'd met on a few occasions. She lives near Phili and I live near DC, so it was hard for us to actually see each other. We were just friends... until my friends drove her down in the middle of the night)