Riverwind (imported) wrote: Mon Jun 25, 2012 7:58 pm Your father and I see it the same way that's for sure, give me a birthday present wrapped in xmas paper, yuch, really, can I give you one for your birthday in June with xmas paper too. YEA, or one gift for your xmas/birthday - cheep bastard.

is it any wonder I don't like birthdays at all yours mine anybody's and I no longer celebrate xmas, the whole thing is just over rated.

River

No, That's not what I meant.

He used to open any gift -- his, my Mother's, mine, my brother's, the dog's and anything that was set out under the tree on his birthday. He grew up poor and nearly an orphan (His oldest sister raised the other seven or eight kids with three different family names after their Mother died in childbirth) and he was lucky to get any gift at all. If he got a Christmas bonus then we all got the fun of finding it or participating in his celebration. One Easter we had a wild Easter egg hunt with plastic eggs loaded with $50 and $100 bills. That was a good year. THinking back now after so many years, I can see lots of things that were "his" thanks to the poverty of his childhood.

Christmas birthdays, Ha! My mother's birthday was on 31 October. She had a sense of humor about it which was a good thing considering that she was the youngest child, by far, in a family of otherwise rough and ready boys. So,yes Moi, you are right things could always be worse.--FLO--

Uncle Flo (imported) wrote: Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:36 am Christmas birthdays, Ha! My mother's birthday was on 31 October. She had a sense of humor about it which was a good thing considering that she was the youngest child, by far, in a family of otherwise rough and ready boys. So,yes Moi, you are right things could always be worse.--FLO--

It was River who said it. I agreed and termed it a truism.

Moi's Corollary: The security of being a moderately depressed person is you don't have that much further down to fall.

Moi