Every year since I can remember my Aunt misses my actual birthday, June 8th and wishes me a Happy Birthday on my due date.
Which happens to be today July 16th. For some reason she has always done that.
I just got an email from her wish me a Happy Birthday.

After 37 years she always thinks of me on July 16th and misses my real birth date.

Annoy me
Piss me off
Make promises they break

Then i go an forgive them

Repeat ad nauseum

my family fails at everything.

mdiver said:

Well they do love you and they never send mean emails to you like my aunt did when I moved here.

shanti0608 said:

Your aunt is a stone cold bitch and i want to punch her in her big fat fucking face until she bleeds

For the purposes of clarity that is an exaggeration.....big and fat is a little harsh
[Edited 7/16/08 13:09pm]

mdiver said:

Awwwww. . . now that's true love.

SCNDLS said:

shanti0608 said:

Exacly what does due date mean?
I know what it means for food in the fridge...

Jochem said:

Val was a premmie, she was early, her due date is when she would have been born if she had been on time.

InsatiableCream said:

I know it's not funny but

Jochem said:

Ah, found it on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_date

So, you mean your moms due date when she was expected to deliver you?
Or were you expecting a baby today?

My mom wastes money by sending a next day delivery of my birthday card so I get it ON MY BIRTHDAY. But it doesn't get delivered on my birthday because it needs a signature and I am at work. So I don't get it until I finally steel myself for a trip to the post office.

Every year I explain this to her and she does the same thing next year.

shanti0608 said:

Monopolize my holidays. I swear to GAWD, I ain't doing a family holiday this Christmas. SWEART. TO. GAWD.


I guess it's not really wierd though sinc eall families monopolize your holidays. However, mine was so damned dissfunctional that it's wierd for me .

mdiver said:

Thanks, I get it.
I don't even know what my own due date was.
Is it common for people to remember their due date?

NDRU said:

Have you tried explaining it to her just before your birthday...

Jochem said:

Probably when it's an extreme situation. I was almost a month late. My mother reminds me of this constantly as if I should feel guilty of it. They finally had to induce 3 weeks after the due date.

Jochem said:

Yes my mom was supposed to deliver me on July 16th but I decided to come early on June 8th.
For some reason my aunt remembered the due date not my actual birth date.

Imago said:

it is quite amusing

mdiver said:

This isn't a yearly thing, it's every 3 months or so.

My dad comes in to town and leaves me a message on my cell phone. He thinks my cell phone voicemail is the same as my home answering machine. He thinks that I can hear him. "Mijo....mijo.....I'm here.....waiting at the aiport.....mijo!!"

I explain it to him everytime but he forgets. Now that I write this I realize how cute he is and how much I love him.

Margaritas on Christmas Eve. Don't ask - I have no idea.

Jochem said:

no, I guess explaining it 364 days before my birthday is one of the weird things I do!

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

"Mijo....MIJO....pinche pendejo...contesta el pinche telefono!!!"

Sowhat said:

make german food on new year's day. i have no clue why we do this

Play Bingo on Christmas day after dinner.

every year since I have been on this earth( probably longer) the whole family gathers at the same corner on state st (in santa barbara, ca) the first friday in August at noon, and watch the old spanish days parade. We eat the same thing every year.

BOMB home made tacos with salsa and guacamole..... we crack confetti eggs on each others head and have a great time.

doesnt matter if we havent talked to each other in days, months, years, we all know there is one day during the year we can find each other

amorbella said:

That is cool! It is nice that they all get together like that.

InsatiableCream said:

DAMN!

They forget to be Normal