Birthday Dinners

[Randy]

"People started celebrating their birthdays by inviting friends out to dinner, typically at a moderately fancy restaurant (then splitting the tab and paying for the guest of honor). Seems like a nice idea, the birthday dinner. It is not. It is a tedious, wretched affair. It is also an extravagantly expensive one. In these wintry economic times, we need to scale back. I hereby propose that the birthday dinner go the way of the $4 cup of coffee, the liar's mortgage, and the midsize banking institution."

-- John Swansburg, Slate

I agree! What about you? Are you always taking people out to eat for birthdays? Is it really necessary?

 

[Jazzy]

I don't as I really can't afford it. To celebrate a birthday, my friends and I take turns 'hosting' the party at our homes. Each of us makes a different dish and we chip in for the cake.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I don't as I really can't afford it. To celebrate a birthday, my friends and I take turns 'hosting' the party at our homes. Each of us makes a different dish and we chip in for the cake.

That sounds like a good idea!

I don't really have a ton of friends so this isn't really an issue. If I was going to take someone out to eat for their birthday, it would only be one or two people and I can make that happen financially if I really wanted to. Of course we probably wouldn't go to anywhere too fancy.

 

[Jazzy]

I don't as I really can't afford it. To celebrate a birthday, my friends and I take turns 'hosting' the party at our homes. Each of us makes a different dish and we chip in for the cake.

That sounds like a good idea!

I don't really have a ton of friends so this isn't really an issue. If I was going to take someone out to eat for their birthday, it would only be one or two people and I can make that happen financially if I really wanted to. Of course we probably wouldn't go to anywhere too fancy.

Is that why you keep asking me if I like McDonald's Happy Meals!

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I don't as I really can't afford it. To celebrate a birthday, my friends and I take turns 'hosting' the party at our homes. Each of us makes a different dish and we chip in for the cake.

That sounds like a good idea!

I don't really have a ton of friends so this isn't really an issue. If I was going to take someone out to eat for their birthday, it would only be one or two people and I can make that happen financially if I really wanted to. Of course we probably wouldn't go to anywhere too fancy.

Is that why you keep asking me if I like McDonald's Happy Meals!

Have I asked you that?

 

[Jazzy]

I don't as I really can't afford it. To celebrate a birthday, my friends and I take turns 'hosting' the party at our homes. Each of us makes a different dish and we chip in for the cake.

That sounds like a good idea!

I don't really have a ton of friends so this isn't really an issue. If I was going to take someone out to eat for their birthday, it would only be one or two people and I can make that happen financially if I really wanted to. Of course we probably wouldn't go to anywhere too fancy.

Is that why you keep asking me if I like McDonald's Happy Meals!

Have I asked you that?

It was a joke you silly man!

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Ah.. Funny stuff then

 

[Bea Sunny (:]

When I was younger we always celebrated with a dinner but just with the family. We invited everyone to our house.

 

[Jazzy]

When I was younger we always celebrated with a dinner but just with the family. We invited everyone to our house.

That sounds very nice.

 

[Bea Sunny (:]

When I was younger we always celebrated with a dinner but just with the family. We invited everyone to our house.

That sounds very nice.

We made a lot of pictures.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

How was your recent birthday dinner Jazzy?