> I have a question regarding the reader poll. The one about forgetting birthdays. Does the question mean that you have to say if you would forget your own birthday/anniversary/holiday or someone elses? I could understand the latter...my birthday remembering capacity is soooo small...but has anyone ever actually forgotten their own birthday? I mean, is this possible? Unless, of course, you are extremely forgetful or have been forced to take some brain washing drug or someone has used one of those little zapper things like in Men In Black.

I forgot my own birthday this year until it was almost the end of the day. Then I thought, "Oh, hey, this might be my birthday" and figured out what the date was, and thought, "Yeah, it is. Huh."

As an excuse, I was working on a ship, many miles away from the nearest calendar, plus I had been busy enough the previous week that I seldom had any clue what day or date it was. Also, I had been careful not to let anybody KNOW it would be my birthday during the voyage, since I didn't want to be jumped on by five guys, held under the fire hose, tied up, tied down, wrapped from neck to ankles in five rolls of cling film until I was immobilised, and had honey and Vegemite rubbed through my hair.

Brunnen-"this happened to somebody else"G