People shared their worst ever birthday and it’s not just the gifts that were rubbish – 18 especially unhappy birthdays
10.
‘My 18th was a damp squib. My new sister was born a couple of weeks before. I was pretty much on the back burner because of that. Mom was exhausted and my step dad couldn’t be bothered. He was a carpenter by trade so he went to his local trade shop and bought me a tin of Swarfega and a saw. He later borrowed the saw and never returned it.’
-presterjohn7171
11.
‘The day before my 16th birthday, my mum decided to ask my dad for a divorce. Spent most of the day on my own, and then had to spend an awkward birthday dinner trying to a) stop my dad from crying and being nasty and b) stop my mum from winding him up.
‘Wasn’t the greatest. But also a pretty standard thing for my ‘parents’ to do.’
-Q_U-_-E_E_R
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‘My birthday year before last. I’m a married mother with 2 grown up kids. Not one card, not one present off anyone! Didn’t even get treated to a takeaway in the evening. So I smashed a plate and went to bed at 7pm.’
-Royal_View9815
13.
‘My 19th birthday.
‘I got a call from my best friend in the early hours of my birthday to say a friend I’d been talking to closely online for years had died in a car crash. I spent the entire day in floods of tears, absolutely heartbroken. Cancelled all my birthday plans and the news really affected me for months after. I’d been talking to him since I was a young teen, we’d spoken on the phone and kept in touch regularly but I could never get him to agree to meet up. Something always came up.
‘It’s a complicated and long story, but basically, it turned out some months later that the boy I had been talking to for years, confided in and been very close to, was actually my in-person best friend all along. We haven’t spoken in the 15 years since I found out.
‘She was delulu. So many worse things she did to other people – I was luckier than they were in the sense I hadn’t agreed to send intimate pictures but this was before even Catfish TV show was a thing. It was the age of the internet where we trusted everyone and everything.’
-pingusaysnoot
14.
‘50th last year. My husband chose that day of all days to be a total dick (he isn’t usually a dick). As we were going on holiday with my parents a week later, he didn’t see why he should have to go to their house for a party on my actual birthday as well. So I went alone, had to drive and couldn’t have a drink. Also, my mum told me one time to arrive and everyone else an earlier time, so I was an hour late to my own party. Not a day to remember.’
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15.
‘My 18th. I was asked what I’d like as a gift. I jokingly said an alarm clock. I was asked if I was sure, I said yes because I literally couldn’t think of anything at the time.
‘I got an alarm clock as a gift. Not even a decent one. A cheap £10 from Argos. Nothing else. Lesson learned.’
-Sirlacker
16.
‘I got a washing line off my parents once. I was about 20 and still lived at home, with no house or garden.’
-Unquietdodo
17.
‘I have been to 3 funerals on my birthday over the years. So they weren’t fun birthdays’
-Rossco1874
18.
‘I went to my (then) manager’s hen do in London after going for a jog that morning, and somehow ended up with INTENSELY painful trapped wind.
‘Cut scene, we get to London Dungeons and I opt out as I’m in agony. Two ladies I’d never met didn’t fancy it either so we said we’d wait along the river. I wanted to try and find a pharmacy to get some kind of relief for my stomach/back pain so we went for a walk. The two ladies I was with decided to ask some policeman if there was a pharmacy around and as we approached we realised they were standing over a dead body.
‘Great birthday.’
-No_Presence_8522
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