How many times have I heard this in my 23 years of blissful life ? Ten in the mind, five in the finger… Oops! Why am I getting into kindergarten mathematics ? Anyway, The point here is, I don’t remember my dear ones’ birthdays and often gets in a embarassing situation. This is more often happening with the opposite sex. If I forget a guy’s birthday, I have a lot of excuses and I can easily escape making pun about his birthday. What if I forget a girl’s birthday ? Gosh! The next time I speak to her, I am done. There is no room for any excuses. I am doomed.
One fine day, I forwarded a good text message to a very old friend after a very long time . She enquired my well wishes and after a flurry of text messages, a sharp message hit me straight on my head. It goes like this,
She : How come you forgot that it’s my birthday today?
Me : How come I forgot it?
As always, all my excuses were in vain.
Another day , one of my cousin asked me what plans I had for my birthday. I never knew that she knew mine and also had forgot that she had mentioned her birth date,to me, earlier. I was at the peak of amnesia and asked when her birthday was. She stopped speaking to me for a while. Oh Gosh! When will I start remembering birthdays? 
yet another day , I was desparate to break my ugly track record. I text messaged one of former classmates on her birthday.
Me : Happy birthday!
She : Thank you so much. But it isn’t mine today. It is Preethi’s.
Me : Sorry! hehehehe 
And just before posting this, was chatting with a friend and the conversation was about the shopping I did today.
She : So, what did you buy for my birthday?
Me : Nothing dear. When is your birthday?
She : You forgot my birthday?
Me : Is it not on the November 3rd ?
She : I have mentioned it already. Forget it.
Me : Yeah! I forgot it. When is it?
She :
What I infer here is that either I need to have a recurring calendar setup for all my dear ones’ birthdays or salvage myself stating that remebering a birthday is a girly thing and not definitely male.
