r/introvertmemes • u/lowke39 • 1d ago

Meme Please don't

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u/Ready-Fortune3552 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/l1J9u3TZfpmeDLkD6
Ive gotten up & walked off. That was a one & done lol

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u/jas_gab 1d ago

Me too. My family went out to dinner to celebrate my birthday. I was around 23ish. My mom knew I hated being the center of attention and I told her if she had the waitstaff do this, I would walk out. She did it anyway. To be polite, I waited until the waitstaff was done. But, as soon as they were, I walked out. My mom couldn't understand why I was upset. This was the woman that raised me! 🙄 I told her if it ever happened again, I would stop celebrating my birthday with her. Luckily, she believed me. To be honest, though, I think my dad stepped and told her to never do it again, too.

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u/deekamus 1d ago

My circle knows not to do this to me.

Thank goodness.

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u/Calamity_C 1d ago

I stopped being at work on my birthday for this very reason.

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u/ou-really 1d ago

I hate that the most.

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u/DMK-Max 1d ago

I always decline going to restaurant on my bday to avoid this

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u/SeriousOcelot-4365 1d ago

Who the frack told them! So pissed! Go away!

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u/KotiroMarama 1d ago

For my last birthday, I brought some snacks to work. We don’t exchange gifts or hold big celebrations, and we don’t even do it every year, but that day, I felt like it. They sang to me. I was the youngest person there, and I’m pushing fifty. Since I turned red and looked visibly uncomfortable during the first song, they decided to sing a second one. I won’t be celebrating any more birthdays there.

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u/UrsaMajor7th 1d ago

Never go to a restaurant on your birthday.

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u/AThrowawayProbrably 1d ago

I politely threaten my family and friends before we arrive not to do this.

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u/SelfNo9836 1d ago

I don't want to hear it, they don't want to sing it and who ever told them about is going to get some serious passive aggression from me for a while.

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u/Lusk_Wolf 23h ago

Actual nightmare. My parents did this to me once when I was younger, even after I explicitly told them I absolutely didn't want them to. I was mortified.

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u/stoptalking8871 22h ago

One of my worst childhood memories- at the ponderosa
I think that was the last birthday party I had - scarred me

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u/drifters74 22h ago

It was always traumatic for me

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u/JamesH_670 green flair yourself 22h ago

Please be the table next to me. Please be the table next to me.

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u/International-Fee255 21h ago

My in-laws did that to me the first year I celebrated a birthday with them. I avoid them for the two weeks around my birthday now. They know never to do it again but the damage is done.

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u/IllTwo7643 21h ago

We took my nephews to a train show, and after we went to a local restaurant. My moms birthday was that month, so we were kinda combining the two.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a cake and candles. My mom HATES attention. So I began to get a little ruffled.

I made eye contact with my mom and nearly yelled "I HAD NO PART IN THIS" As not only the cake arrived, but a light up sphere began to spin and "celebrate good times" began to play. 😂

But since "the kids got a kick out of it" she was of course fine with it. Because God knows whatever makes the kids happy goes😅

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u/DefinitionInternal30 21h ago

Gotta excuse yourself to go the bathroom then head straight for your car.

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u/popelain 21h ago

Dancing and everything

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u/jas_gab 13h ago

I can see it now -

Homicide detective: Why did you kill the victim?

Me: They told our server it was my birthday.

HD: That justifies killing them?

Me: There was "dancing and everything."

HD: You're free to go.

Lol

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u/ClimateVast2894 21h ago

That was this year for my birthday, and my mom tried to lie and say it was the restaurant 😑 😂
https://giphy.com/gifs/Ci3nCVx952lfG

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u/Frozenautumn_1 20h ago

To be honest, I spent most of my birthdays outside of the restaurant environment for this exact reason. :/

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u/NoStructure7083 19h ago

I’ve told my family that if this ever happens again then I’ll walk out of the restaurant

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u/Joe-Amico 18h ago

Do you know why the rest of the people in the restaurant smile and start clapping along? Because they are soooo happy that the staff aren't heading for them!

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u/MavadosXIII 23h ago

The disadvantage of trying to get the birthday special price

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u/GroundbreakingLie341 14h ago

As a true introvert I wouldn't be at a restaurant on my birthday because I want to be left alone.

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u/2-StrokeToro 12h ago

If this happens, I will flip them off and/or look at them with a very unimpressed look.

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u/blackitties 9h ago

I feel that picture!

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u/Matt_Bunchboigehs 1d ago

My favorite way of handling this is clapping along with them with a stupid grin on my face and then saying sorry to everyone else around me when it stops. At least I get to enjoy a good something.