Summer Birthdays (was:Re: Missed a trick)

[serenadust]

> > Cindy -- who had a summer birthday, who is forever bitter that 
she
> > never *once* got a party in the classroom to celebrate it like 
the
> > winter birthday kids, and who thinks the summer birthday people 
should
> > form a support group as soon as someone thinks up a good name 
for us

Annemehr responded:
> I'm all up for joining little groups, but I've always *liked* my
> summer birthday.  It's July 2, which I think is mid-year's-day, 
and we
> always had the family party on July 4th.  Just think, all those
> fireworks and catching lightning bugs and silly string and staying
> outside in the nice and warm till all hours, all for *my* birthday
> party!  Who needed a classroom party?
> 
> Now, of course, I enjoy a birthday in the same month as JKR and 
Harry
> Potter, and the HP books tend to be released very near to it, too!
> 
> But, if you still want that support group, how about Classroom
> Cupcakes Anonymous?  You can meet in an empty room in the local 
school
> and pass them around (the cupcakes, I mean) and sing "Happy 
Birthday"
> to each other.  Everybody always brought in stale cupcakes for 
their
> birthday, didn't they?


Well, *I* needed a classroom party <g>!  Of course, if my birthday 
had fallen near a cool (non-present giving) holiday like the fourth 
of July, I'd have felt a lot better with a summer birthday.  In 
fact, my cousin's birthday is on the 4th and there was always a big 
family cook-out, and sparklers, and swimming......::sniff:: (getting 
depressed just thinking about it).

I, OTOH, have a late August birthday which meant I always got a lot 
of school clothes, pencil cases, etc. BAH!

Anyway, count me in for that summer birthday orphans group.

Jo S. who never realized that the cupcakes were stale and thought 
that it was her own bitterness over never being the birthday girl.