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June 06, 2006
Get born
This is a little strange to me. Apparently a lot of mothers are undergoing C-sections and induced labor because they don't want their babies born today, June 6, aka 6/6/06. The whole thing boggles my mind because the date isn't 6/6/6, it's 6/6/06, or more accurately, 6/6/2006. It's always bothered me when people get freaked out by numbers or other combinations that are purely coincidental.
According to that link, other unpopular birthdays are September 11, Halloween and Christmas Day. I suppose Christmas is an unpopular birthday because it's highly inconvenient to go to a hospital on Christmas, and possibly because mom doesn't want to screw over Baby by combining his two main gift-receiving days into one. I mean, I used to moan that my January birthday caused me to get only presents that were too unpopular to be bought for Christmas. I bet if my birthday was ON Christmas, I would be moaning that I'm getting dicked out of presents because my birthday and Christmas are getting merged into one. And oh God, what a materialist, selfish bastard that makes me!
On the other hand, I always find it amusing that people worry that much about birthdays. Yes, it is rather unfortanate if your birthday happens to be September 11 or December 7, or you can be like my uncle who came into the world on Friday the 13th. But I think it's also a cool quirk at the same time. I mean, you're never going to forget that person's birthday. I personally thought it would be completely awesome to be born on February 29.
Posted by oz115 at June 6, 2006 10:10 AM