“It’s been three years now, but she’s still angry about it”
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Overlooked an app or forgot to turn over the paper birthday calendar. Turns out it’s incredibly difficult: remembering those annual birthdays when you’re on a standout exhausted.
Jasper (33), father of Mikki (9):
“Mikki has a very sweet after-school teacher who is always there for me, as a single dad. I’m really one of those fathers who is always stuck in traffic jams or suddenly needs childcare on another day.
Miss Fatima arranges everything and helps me out every time. Such a woman deserves her weight in gold, but certainly a gift when she turns forty. I had only overlooked that app about her birthday plus the party that would be celebrated with the children. It is that Mikki still remembered. Only then at 8:05 am, on the day itself, just before she had to go to school and I had to go to work. No time to buy a gift anywhere.
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Fatima does not drink alcohol, otherwise I would have easily finished, because I always have plenty of wine in stock. There was nothing for it but to search the bathroom and pantry for something that could serve as a gift. In the end it turned out to be a ‘me-time’ package with a bottle of unopened bath oil (I just hoped she owned a bath), a tube of hand cream (in the packaging, still from my ex), a box of chocolates and a bottle of fresh apple juice ( from the Christmas package). Nice cellophane and bow around it, and you’re done. But oh, how silly I felt.”
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That will never work out
Aimée (31), mother of James (8) and Maxime (6):
“My husband Jefferson is in the military and is often away from home for months. Without him, I’ll make sure everything goes on here at home. A lot of arranging, but it always goes well. Until the one time I forgot my mother-in-law’s birthday. It’s been three years now, but she’s still mad about it.
Angry that the kids and I hadn’t come by and she hadn’t had a card, not even a phone call. The huge bunch of roses that I had delivered the next day with a big ‘mea culpa’ didn’t help either. The reason was as silly as it was careless. I had neglected to flip the May birthday calendar and therefore missed the red-framed ‘Mum’s birthday’ at the beginning of June.”
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