Not really a noteworthy event to
the world at large. No congratulations
are required or expected. In fact, I
have always figured that was pretty much backwards anyway.
If any congratulations of gifts are deserved, they should be directed to my mother.
If you feel like passing on your wishes to her, please add your condolences for the last 55 years and 9 months, she’ll appreciate the thought. And heaven only knows how thoroughly she deserves it.
Mostly I don’t pay much attention to birthdays. Like I said, it’s really not like I had anything to do with the event other than to sit there and do nothing. Come to think of it, now some 40 years into my work a day world; if I could get a job where all I did was sit around, be waited on hand and foot, and showered by congratulations and presents…heck, guess you’d have to call me President Vandermolen, huh?
All that said, there have been a few birthdays that I’ve looked forward to:
If any congratulations of gifts are deserved, they should be directed to my mother.
If you feel like passing on your wishes to her, please add your condolences for the last 55 years and 9 months, she’ll appreciate the thought. And heaven only knows how thoroughly she deserves it.
Mostly I don’t pay much attention to birthdays. Like I said, it’s really not like I had anything to do with the event other than to sit there and do nothing. Come to think of it, now some 40 years into my work a day world; if I could get a job where all I did was sit around, be waited on hand and foot, and showered by congratulations and presents…heck, guess you’d have to call me President Vandermolen, huh?
All that said, there have been a few birthdays that I’ve looked forward to:
- 16 years old – because I could get a driver’s license. An early indicator that the State of California had some unresolved issues, truth be told; at least based on the quality of some of my early driving decision-making.
- 18 years old – because I could register and vote. For all the real good any of that has done over the past nine presidential and gubernatorial elections, the past 18 senatorial elections, and uncounted other federal, state, and local elections.
- 25 years old – Because that is when my car insurance rates dropped. Heck, I am Dutch after all, and if “less money for the same thing” isn’t something to look forward to, I don’t know what is.
- Which leads me to this one, 55 years old – because I have been saving up company names and senior discount offers for several years now….and I finally get to start redeeming them.
Guess the next one is at 65, when
Medicare coverage kicks in, or whatever age it changes to between now and
then.
That’s a long way off.
And probably getting further away with
every legislative session.
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