A birthday reminder would have saved me some guilt
I hate to relate embarrassing stories to everyone out there on the Internet, but if it will do somebody some good, then I might as well.
Last month, I was struggling through life. My pet alpaca had just died, I had to cancel my trip to Turkey because of some labor disputes at my local travel agency, and somebody had just spray painted a big curse work on my garage door. And as if that wasn’t bad enough I came down with the swine flu. I affectionately referred to is as ‘Swinezilla’, and it came to my down to destroy some stuff.
As all this was happening, I remembered that it was my wife’s birthday in a few days. I thought that for sure I would remember because I had realized it so soon. That’s where I was wrong. My memory is not the best, especially when it comes to birthdays. I guess I need a birthday reminder or something like that.
So my wife’s birthday came and went, without me saying a word to her about it. The next morning, I awoke to someone throwing a pitcher of water on my face. I actually had a dream that I was drowning, so to wake up to water in my face really scared the crap out of me. I asked my wife what the (curse word) was going on, and she let me have it. She told me that I had forgot.
I felt like an idiot. If I had only had a birthday reminder set up, none of that would ever had happened.
