I Was Going To Kill Him But.....

[gness]

For ninety years my mother has celebrated her birthday in November. When she went into care we discovered her birthday was in April.

I was away when my brother contacted me to say the staff were celebrating her birthday this month....he was sending a card...would I like him to send one on my behalf....Lovely, thoughtful brother...Yes please..but nothing mushy...Mum and I don't like each other so nice but blank cards have been the norm..... I should have know better.

I went into her room today to see my card propped up on her table.....

Mummy...it said....I love you because you cuddle me....you tickle me... you tuck me in....you are funny and we make pretty cakes together....but most of all because you are my mummy and I love you very much ♥♥♥♥♥

So I won't kill him....but my mind is working very hard on revenge.....☺

[shoota]

Bite the bullet.....

[Baldric]

Oh dear!
I don't envy him.

[grasscarp]

Cant you just laugh it off gness. Did your mum say anything about it?

[2sp_]

I'm curious, how did it come to be that your mother (and everyone else) thought her birthday was in November?

[shoota]

Mind you, it does display quite an advanced sense of humour and therefore should be applauded......




No?

[tonyav]

LOL, I like your brother, gness !.

[flump1]

Oh let her have two birthdays like our queen does Gness...gives you time to find a more suitable ( Happy birthday you old moo ) card . xx

[gness]

Can't keep biting bullets....I'll have no teeth left.....and I'm not sure about advanced....but I know my brother and should never have let him do it.

Grass....of course I laugh it off....once I had chased him down the corridor beating him around the ears with it....and Mum knows nothing....who we are...where she is....what day it is....she wouldn't know she had a birthday or who Gness was if she had been able to read it.

I did find out, 2sp...and it was something to do with how births in Ireland were registered...and she was registered in Nov....so I guess they stuck with that....☺

[anneasquith]

he a cheeky wee bu**** :).

[2sp_]

I see, gness.

But still, I kind of like your brother's sense of humour. I can see it runs in the family and I do look forward to your tale of how you extracted revenge on him!

[gness]

You'd get on, Tony....he's the bees knees.....albeit a cheeky, wee bu****!

He'll be expecting something so I shall bide my time.....☻

Hi, Flump.....she'll end up getting two telegrams....x

[saxy_jag]

Is he married or in a relationship? Send him a Valentine card or even a birthday card from some fictitious 'other'. If you can get someone to post it from another part of the country, so much the better.

A woman I knew played a great trick on her bloke once. He had given a lift home to her sister one evening, all very legitimate and above board. The two women then colluded and planted one of the sister's earrings and a bra in the car, along with a good squirt of her perfume. All that was then needed was a little acting and they had him squirming for a week before they came clean. ;-)

[gness]

Oooooo...I shall come up with something, Saxy..He owns land in Ireland and I have some Irish Embassy letters....I'll use the headings I think and reclaim his land for a wind farm.....along those lines....but not yet. When he's forgotten all about the card....☻

[Ken4155]

A good few years ago, my father in law had to claim benefits having been made redundant. There was found to be a discrepancy about his date of birth which he had always believed to be in April. I telephoned Wicklow registrar to discover his date of birth was actually November (spooky) and that he was actually younger than he thought. The lady i spoke to said that if i send a cheque for £1, she would send me a copy and i asked for the post code. She actually replied, "Oh, bejaysus, you don't need the post code; everybody knows each other around here." Which, of course, made me chuckle for a while.

It transpired that when my father in law and his older brothers were brought over from Ireland by his father, he was told to say he was a bit older so as to get a 'proper' wage (?) and, apparently, as the years passed, he had celebrated his April birthday so often that he actually forgot that he was born in November:-)

[boxtops]

If your mum is in the frame of mind that thinks you're about four years old, that card would be spot on!

[gness]

Oooo...what is it with April and November.....though chatting it over with an aunt she said Grandad only registered a child when he took a cow to market... and way out in the wilds of Ireland....with few cows...that probable wasn't often.
Confusing lot we Irish.....but it keeps everyone on their toes....☺

[gness]

Boxy...the closest she could come up with when questioned today was that I am her mother.....the nurse assured me I didn't look that old.... :-(

[lady-janine]

I have a friend from Ireland to whom I always gave a card and present in November until after about 30 years she told me it should have been august. so I now do both. just to be sure.

[gness]

Ye gods! I must research this more....and I'm now wondering about my birthday...☺

[tonyav]

Perhaps your already 64, gness !.