1. Never knowing what to do for your birthday.
2. Feeling like a loser for planning your own party. Because it's uncool to be excited about your own birthday.
3. Having to drop hints to your friends that you want them to arrange something for your birthday.
4. Saying "you too" when someone tells you "happy birthday."
5. When someone decides to send you a happy birthday text like this. Especially if it comes at an inopportune time.
6. Getting a card that someone else thinks is ~hiLaRiOus~ and then having to pretend it's funny, too.
7. Inviting the wrong mix of people to your party and the result is a socially awkward disaster.
8. When your office gives you the standard birthday they do several times a month for everyone else.
9. Or worse, when someone in your office decides to draw REAL attention to your birthday, except it usually just confuses everyone.
10. When the waitstaff at a restaurant sing you a happy birthday song, and everyone is looking at you.
11. Finding out about your surprise party in advance.
12. Making plans of your own that totally botch the setup of a surprise party.
13. Getting an automated text like this on your birthday.
14. When people don't make a big deal out of your birthday because they just assume you're a birthday-hater.
15. If someone has the *brilliant* idea of getting you one of those "over-the-hill" gifts making fun of how "old" you are.
16. When your friends clearly forget about your birthday, but then pull something together last minute.
17. When your friends clearly forget about your birthday, and don't even make an effort.
18. Hearing from only a few people on your birthday and wondering if anyone cares.
19. When your parents make sex jokes on the day you turn older.
