What’s the worst thing that’s happened to you on your birthday? – 17 disasters that spoiled people’s big day
10.
‘On my 10th birthday. We would make a cake on each of our birthdays in my family. On my 10th my brother and I were mixing the cake mixture in a bowl in our kitchen sink. My brother reached for something and accidentally knocked a full cup of washing powder into the cake mix.
‘Cue floods of tears and end of the world scenario. When I calmed down we made a new cake but I was mortified as we were no longer allowed to make a 4 egg cake and parents would now only spare 3.
‘I am still in PTSD counseling 40 odd years later.’
-Particular_Tune7990
11.
‘A few years back, my flight home got cancelled, and as the next available one was only the day after, I was provided with a hotel room. The airline messed up the booking though, so I had to spend 4h on customer service calls to sort that out. Then, after finally getting booked into a new hotel, the kitchen was out of order, so the room service consisted of delivery pizza (which at least was very good. And there was cake).’
-sophikles
12.
‘My whole family forgot, by whole family I don’t mean a couple of siblings. We’re a large close knit Irish Catholic family, many close cousins and Aunties and Uncles. I didn’t get a single happy birthday on the whatsapp group until my Wife said “Happy birthday” on it. This included my Mother…’
-Sufficient-Tadpole99
13.
‘I got married.
‘Silver linings though, now I ditched the total tool he can no longer make the day all about him. Onwards and upwards.’
-HairyN0sedWombat
14.
‘Shat myself on my 18th.
‘Had taken too much MDMA.
‘Was out and had to leave my keks in the nightclub bogs.’
-ZeroFrogsHere
15.
‘Not drastically horrifying, but as a chronically shy kid I’d say the time my parents hired a magician for my birthday party, and they made me stand up in front of everybody as their assistant. I’m sure most kids would love it, but not me. I think I had a bit of a meltdown partway through and one of my friends had to take over… I didn’t have another big party after that. 😅’
-beeurd
16.
‘The country went into lockdown on my 21st.. I got a trip to Asda to celebrate, wasn’t quite the birthday bash I’d planned..😂’
-stargazecwtch
17.
‘My 13th. Elderly neighbour took his own life in his garage; my sister then knocked me out cold demonstrating a James Bond move to my best friend. And later, it turned out that a present from my grandparents was in a post van blown up in Belfast. Oh how I laughed.’
-duckorange14
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