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[–]Shadelkan 559 points560 points  (63 children)

And I thought having your birthday on Christmas was bad! What other fun combinations exist?

[–]Chilifille 461 points462 points  (14 children)

My Dad was born on March 22nd and my eldest sister on March 23rd.

Mom went into labor during Dad's 34th birthday dinner, and one of the first things he said was "now I'll never have my own birthday again".

[–]Dragonfire723 118 points119 points  (4 children)

My dad & oldest sister were both born in October 22nd. He hasn't had his own birthday for 29, coming up on 30 years

[–]Saxual__Assault 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I have the same birthday as both of them. Nice.

[–]honeypinn 15 points16 points  (1 child)

The opposite is true for my friend's family. Son and mom share a birthday. Son hasn't had his own birthday ever. The family treats him like trash, while his brother is the golden child.

[–]Deep_Pudding2208 1 point2 points  (0 children)

as a trash 2nd child I feel this

[–]RoryDragonsbane 32 points33 points  (2 children)

My son was born the day before my birthday. I was holding him while my wife was recovering from the C-section and she said "oh, I guess it's your birthday today, huh? I had completely forgotten."

Honestly it's great. Once you get to a certain age, birthdays aren't that big of a deal. I'm happy my son's takes the attention away from mine.

[–]iota96 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm the same. I hate the attention and random messages from folks I only hear from once a year. Haven't been excited about my birthday since my 15th. My birthday is more of a special day for my mom because she's always the happiest on that day. And it makes sense to me because I only ever get excited about anniversaries of events that I actually witnessed and have a memory of.

I'm happy my son's takes the attention away from mine.

Now I'm hoping to share my birthday with my future kid (if I have any). At least I can be excited for my own birthdays again lol

[–]cpolito87 4 points5 points  (2 children)

My daughter and I share a birthday. I already know I'll never have my own party again. I'm ok with that.

[–]pipnina 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Why don't you just celebrate them on different days Make your daughter's the weekend before the date, and your the weekend after or of. Or vice versa

That way the BD is one week separated for convenience, and nobody misses out on the celebration.

In my family we always kick birthdays to the weekend. It's just easier for work schedules and esp since I make cake, I can't make and decorate a cake on one day where I've been at work and will have work again the next day.

[–]cpolito87 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was never big about my birthday. So I'm happy to celebrate her birthday. My wife's birthday is also pretty close so we generally just have one big party for all three of us.

[–]DBones90 56 points57 points  (4 children)

My older brother and I were both born exactly on December 21st, so we had shared birthdays that we also had to share with Christmas.

[–]WillSayAnything 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Damn that's rough.

How'd that pan out for you two?

Did you two get one small present for your birthday and everything else were Christmas presents? Or did you all skip birthday presents and instead have a birthday dinner?

[–]MattyMizzou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I knew someone with a birthday like that so his family actually decided to celebrate his half birthday every year instead.

[–]Drg84 13 points14 points  (2 children)

I was literally born on my mother's birthday. No joke.

[–]True_Falsity 11 points12 points  (2 children)

Not really serious but February 29th

[–]Horskr 1 point2 points  (1 child)

My dad's best friend's daughter had that birthday. They visited for her 16th birthday and by the fifth "Happy fourth birthday!" I thought she was going to murder someone.

[–]True_Falsity [score hidden]  (0 children)

Hahaha, yeah, I guessed that much. I had a distant cousin who had the same.

It was kind of a running gag to buy him two sets of gifts. One was for his “technical age” and one was for his “real age”.

Of course, that stopped once the gap between age-appropriate gifts lessened.

[–]NativeMasshole 7 points8 points  (1 child)

People born in September and October are the real Christmas babies anyway.

[–]syringa 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My kiddo's birthday is on Halloween! I hope he's as excited about it as I have been, when he gets older.

[–]Rs90 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Divorced Parents Birthdays

"So it's like you get two birthdays!"

I want a dad tho...

[–]BookyNZ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My youngest two siblings are born 3 years and 1 day apart. My mum went into labour my brother's birthday. Which is funny when she was due to have a C section (all 4 of us were C section). The irony of it is, all three of my siblings are in the same star sign (I don't believe in it, but I always got a kick out of it anyway), and at one point, all had their middle names start with the same letter, and here was me, the odd one out, different time of the year, different middle name letter. Unfortunately my birthday is in December, which kinda sucks.

[–]nurfqt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My father in law is the only boy with 6 sisters. He was born on February 29th. His baby sister was born on March 1st three years later. Dude’s “first birthday” was a shared first birthday. He also got to use the shared bathroom last.

[–]No1KnwsIWatchTeenMom 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My son was born on my birthday, and it's the same week as Christmas 🙃

[–]Grymare 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On the other side of the spectrum a friend of mine was born January 1st. Having huge fireworks for your birthday every year seems fun.

[–]dplans455 2 points3 points  (1 child)

This is my brother, Christmas baby. We never celebrated his birthday on his birthday when we were kids. We always celebrated it the following weekend. I know he hated it. He only ever just wanted to have his birthday celebrated on his birthday.

Fast forward to we are adults, he meets a girl, they fall in love and get married. Now you might think, "his wife's birthday is also on Christmas." Nope, story takes a turn for the worse: his wife's mother's birthday is on Christmas. Now not only does he not get his birthday celebrated on Christmas but he doesn't get his birthday celebrated at all. His wife and her family make a big thing over her birthday on Christmas. They go all out. The birthday cake in 20 years has never said happy birthday to the mom and my brother, it's only his wife's mom's name on the cake. This guy literally had his birthday just wiped from existence. I don't know how he puts up with it.

[–]Jonjoejonjane 2 points3 points  (1 child)

My mom and ten kids and all of us share a birthday party with at least one other person

[–]2M4D 2 points3 points  (1 child)

My father’s new girlfriend has the exact same birthday as my mum. But like 30 years apart.

Love it…

[–]cyd23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My sister had to give birth on her birthday 😂

She doesn't have her own birthday anymore.

[–]Yukari_8 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I was born exactly a year after my parents got married

My dad died kinda recently so it feels really awkward for me to celebrate my birthday

[–]LincolnCassiusClay57 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My mom’s birthday is December 23rd. Mine is December 24th and my brother’s is December 27th.

We’ve never had a normal birthday like all our friends.

[–]MissAmericaChavez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My mom's is Christmas Day, I was born on Christmas Eve so yeah, I feel both of these in a sense.

[–]VermillionEorzean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My friend's parents got married two days after his mother's birthday, and then her father passed away on their 1 year anniversary. That's a pretty awkward combination of occasions, where she really doesn't like celebrating her birthday, but worked herself up to not letting what happened ruin her anniversary.

[–]Peepinis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was born super close to Christmas. I had one party (nobody showed up) and usually didn’t get presents because of the date. I feel for all the December babies out there

[–]ALiteralGraveyard 1 point2 points  (1 child)

My brother died on my mom’s birthday so that’s obviously not ideal.

[–]En_Sabah_Nur 1 point2 points  (1 child)

A guy I used to hang out with was born on 9/11

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 2563 points2564 points  (152 children)

Happy Birthday to my sister! We’re exactly 5 years and 51 weeks apart and I haven’t had my own party since. She’s not that bad though. 😝

[–]niceslcguy 421 points422 points  (19 children)

Grats to you both :)

[–]Montigue 306 points307 points  (2 children)

But mostly to your sister

[–]CharmingPerformer718 105 points106 points  (0 children)

Happy Birthday to your sister op. best wishes to her.

[–]ReXyngton 5 points6 points  (0 children)

-_-

[–]PsychologicalEnd7855 5 points6 points  (14 children)

That’s like the worst luck ever. He said he’s only ever had 2 real birthday parties because everyone is with family.

[–]drill_hands_420 17 points18 points  (12 children)

My best friend’s birthday is July 4th (American). He hates it

[–]AstarteHilzarie 13 points14 points  (9 children)

My birthday is Halloween. It was awesome until I had my own kids.

[–]evilJaze 17 points18 points  (6 children)

Try having a birthday a couple of days after Xmas when all the adults are tired of the shopping, family, and general holiday hullabaloo to want to put any effort into celebrating your birthday. Instead, you get some Xmas gifts held over until your birthday so for example you get 4 of the 5 Voltron toys on Xmas day then the fifth on your birthday.

[–]AstarteHilzarie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oof yeah I've heard that's rough. My husband's is a bit before Christmas so he always just got shafted for both. I try to make sure he has a lot of good presents for both now to make up for when he was a kid.

I went from having huge costume parties every year and getting candy from everyone for my birthday to having to set up the decorations/candy station and pumpkins, plan/organize/coordinate getting everyone dressed and ready and out the door and then do the walk-along trick-or-treating which is cute but less fun and more arduous as an adult, then sort through okay candy and put hyper excited kids to bed before I can collapse and be done. Sometimes we do gifts and a cake after trick or treating, but most of the time my husband and I just go out for dinner the weekend before or after and call that my birthday now because it's just too exhausting and overloading to enjoy my birthday after making Halloween happen for everyone else.

[–]FlamingWeasel 2 points3 points  (1 child)

My oldest was born on Halloween and my youngest was born on 9/11, lol.

[–]poopellar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Comment copying bot ^

[–]tin_dog 106 points107 points  (2 children)

Happy Birthday!

Sister and I are 5 years and 50 weeks apart. She had to wait two weeks for me to buy our Atari console. Last time I had to wait 35 years to play again.

[–]Drafo7 39 points40 points  (5 children)

Lol my brother is 12 years and 51 weeks younger than me to the day, and his mom's (my step-mom's) birthday is exactly a week before his.

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 57 points58 points  (2 children)

The crappiest part is not getting as much birthday cake as you could throughout the year.

[–]fvck_u_spez 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Just buy ones randomly throughout the year to make up for it.

[–]trowzerss 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, my brother and I have birthdays a week apart in December. We used to also get presents and stuff at Easter so the celebrations were spread out a little throughout the year (nothing big, just something, even if it was like colouring books).

[–]Montaire 88 points89 points  (14 children)

Wow. Guess your parents sex life was remarkably regular

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 130 points131 points  (12 children)

At least around new years

[–]Montaire 46 points47 points  (6 children)

Good for them! They worked hard and deserved a nice things

Presents for two kids in the same paycheck can be rough, you know!

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 50 points51 points  (2 children)

I have no clue how they pulled it off but we’re all grateful for it. :)

[–]PhDamnit 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Was going to comment "Mom's laying down a cycle", but I don't know enough about women to know if that's cute, weird, or gross.

Nice comic!

[–]TacticaLuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dad knows how to pick up and ride a bike

[–]hoglinezp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

wouldnt be too difficult to just set the money aside as if the two kids were a few months apart. They then make savings on the party itself, extended family etc that would normally attend both parties are now only fed/entertained once

[–]insane_contin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's always at the countdown.

[–]HarpersGhost 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Four of my sister's kids were born early October.

And I also have a step dad and 2 BILs with birthdays around now, too.

Too many GD Libras in my family! Stop having sex around New Year's!!!

[–]ResearchExternal3602 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Sat scross from a couple at a hibachi restaurant.

They had three small children of various ages with them and were celebrating.

The husband seemed overly possessive and confident like something good was going to happen. The wife seemed bored and annoyed.

Towards the end of the meal, the chef asks what everyone's celebrating. They were celebrating three birthdays....

[–]Kitchen_Bicycle6025 23 points24 points  (6 children)

Double cake?

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 63 points64 points  (5 children)

Irl? Most times. Tbh, drawing 9 panels and trying to make each different enough got really tiring. Plus the punchline.

[–]Bocchi_theGlock 14 points15 points  (4 children)

I loved the story telling through birthdays and a fixed scene. Honestly one of my fav comics of yours, super cute

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 13 points14 points  (3 children)

Thank you! It means a lot to know that the special ones to me stand out and I appreciate it.

[–]Malkelvi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This was pretty well done. Definitely had some good wholesome humor and amazing emotion shown through facial expressions and eyes!

[–]Fierza 18 points19 points  (7 children)

Gratz! I got you beat tho! My little sister have her birthday 3 days before mine, and my twin brothers share my exact birthday!

[–]ResearchExternal3602 14 points15 points  (4 children)

Isn't it uncanny how often twins have the same birthday?

It's /gotta/ be significant. I mean, the sun and the Earth have to practically align, and it happens almost every time!

[–]badmartialarts 14 points15 points  (1 child)

There were a pair of twins in school with me growing up whose birthdays were 2 days apart. First was born around 11:55 pm and the second didn't want to join the world so they went for a c-section but complications let to that being over after midnight the next day. Luckily Mom and the second twin survived.

[–]tomato-fried-eggs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Finally some space to my fucking self"

[–]Fierza 3 points4 points  (1 child)

As in, 11 years after me my parents have twins born on my birthday. So those 2 sharing with me :)

[–]ResearchExternal3602 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was making an astology joke. >.<

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 6 points7 points  (1 child)

How did you guys fair with it? Sharing with 3 other siblings must of been wild

[–]Fierza 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Usually just had a family celebration on the weekend and putting the friends/classmates celebration whenever it could fit in the schedule. All I know is it was an expensive week for my parents

[–]Taograd359 13 points14 points  (3 children)

My birthday is Christmas, my grandma’s birthday was the day after, my cousin was born on NYE, and my grandparents adopted two dogs on Christmas, so when I was younger I had a cake a few years in a row that said “Happy birthday Taograd, Grandma, Holly, Woody, and Shadow”

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 14 points15 points  (2 children)

My husbands birthday is the day after Christmas as well and I just gotta say, I’m so sorry. That’s like the worst luck ever. He said he’s only ever had 2 real birthday parties because everyone is with family.

However, as an outside perspective, I think it is really freaking cute they had the dogs names on your cake too.

[–]Taograd359 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The dogs always got a piece of cake. It was their birthday, too, after all.

But uh, yeah, the last birthday party I had was in middle school and one of my friends ruined it because…I still don’t actually know why…

[–]oooshi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My dads is Christmas Eve, his brothers Christmas Day, and his moms is seven days before 😂 they said the holidays weren’t even enjoyable growing up 🥴😂😂😂

[–]VomitMaiden 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Feel sorry for your sister, you got five birthdays by yourself, they've had to share all of theirs with you

[–]pipnina 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Given as the 5th birthday is the only one she'd be old enough to remember, they both had it equally bad tbh.

[–]RedStar9117 5 points6 points  (1 child)

That's adorable. Happy birthday to both of you

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you!!

[–]ShittDickk 8 points9 points  (3 children)

Tell your parents it's healthy to bone more than a few dates a year. Is it 9 months away from their anniversary, Christmas, or Valentines?

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 16 points17 points  (2 children)

They’re divorced now and I presume they bone quite merrily more often with their respective partners. But I rather not think about it.

[–]Etheo 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Why don't you draw a comic about parents boning, it might help you get over it...

Source: I'm a not therapist.

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

People pay me to draw me bone. I don’t want to lose revenue over my mental health.

[–]ThickWeatherBee 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I'm so happy for you guys!

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thank you <3

[–]SDreiken 2 points3 points  (4 children)

At least you didn’t have it as bad as my brother. 8 years apart, same day, just he was in the morning and I was later in the day.

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Oof. If you don’t mind me asking- How’d your guys parties go? Did you share? And as the younger brother did you feel any kind of jealously/resentment being so close?

[–]SDreiken 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Yeah we shared we’d have. And like I’m pretty sure the worst birthday he would have have to deal with would have been the birthday our mom more or less had to miss due to me being born. He never seemed to mind though, like by the time I was 4 he was 12 so I think by around that point he didn’t mind being the focus of attention. Like as long as he got some decent presents and got to hang out with our similarly aged family he didn’t care. And I don’t really remember having any issues between us over sharing our birthdays, at least from my end. I honestly think it’s the age gap, my younger sister and I had the more combative relationship going up since she’s 4~ years younger so we kinda had to fight for attention. Honestly my birthday is pretty close to Christmas and I probably thought way more about how that was a detriment to things than I ever thought sharing one with my brother was, from my end it’s just how thing always were.

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

That’s incredibly interesting to get a gauge on. I think my sister and I had a rivalry even though we have 6 years apart we were the eldest girls. We have a brother between us but he is the only boy and our younger sister was the baby. As adults it’s doesn’t mean anything but looking back, especially after reading your comment, it makes sense.

I can sympathize about having a birthday close to Christmas though. My husbands birthday is the 26th and it sucks.

[–]Nuclear_rabbit 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Omg is this a face reveal?

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The 90’s edition

[–]PKMNTrainerMark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, then Happy Early or Belated Birthday to you!

[–]LDW1383 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well happy birthday dot

[–]BurritosAt420 1 point2 points  (1 child)

My dad and I shared the same birthday, it definitely makes that day interesting when you share it with someone, especially family.

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure! And if you got a lot of family too. A lovely kind of chaos to have everyone around.

[–]Cockalorum 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Is there an event 9 months prior to your birthday? Valentines Day? Your dad's birthday?

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I can be totally wrong here but my understanding is gestation for pregnancy is closer to 10 months so it’d be around new years since we’re October babies

[–]lartufbd 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Your parents like to fuck around Christmas.

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No better way to celebrate Jesus

[–]Squirrelsroar 426 points427 points  (7 children)

I ruined my brother's birthday by being born on it.

I would often get called a birthday present and he'd say "it's a pity it's not one that can be returned to the shop"

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 221 points222 points  (6 children)

that’s literally the most big brother thing to say. lol

I remember when my sister was born I said “this was the best birthday gift ever!” About 3 years later I officially retracted the statement when we had to have a Teletubbies themed party.

[–]Zjoee 68 points69 points  (3 children)

When my little brother was born, I went to go see him in the hospital. I took one look at him and asked if I could go back to my aunt and uncle's house to play with my cousins haha. Apparently, I was unimpressed.

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 70 points71 points  (0 children)

At least you didn’t go with the drastic approach

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[–]DShepard 12 points13 points  (1 child)

I mean I love my little brother, but my dad had to buy me a LEGO set to keep me from being bored out of my mind in the hospital when he was born. Newborns are generally not interesting unless you've taken part in their creation.

[–]adrienjz888 10 points11 points  (1 child)

I'm 5 years 5 months older than my little brother. Fuckin loved him til he was 3 and broke my bionicles I just spent all my birthday money on.

From that point on for the next decade or so, he did everything in his power to get under my skin.

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The villain origin story

[–]Dr_Juice55 122 points123 points  (6 children)

This is sweet

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 136 points137 points  (5 children)

She’s kinda, sort of, a wonderful person despite having me as a sister.

[–]Dr_Juice55 45 points46 points  (3 children)

So diplomatic

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 54 points55 points  (2 children)

I have to be if I want to be a failed politician some day.

[–]TacticaLuck 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Failing is the new success though?

You got this!

[–]Hufflepuff_Air_Cadet 50 points51 points  (3 children)

This is so wholesome

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 94 points95 points  (2 children)

She flew down from our hometown last year to help me with my first booth at comic con. She actually got me way more sales than I ever could by hyping me up. She’s a good sister.

I’d feel shitty if I didn’t mention that I also have another baby sister who is fantastic and a brother who is great as well. I got comics planned for them later. :)

[–]Correct_Toe_4628 92 points93 points  (1 child)

Is it bad I kept looking for Plug in the first picture? Happy birthday to the thief and a very happy unbirthday to everyone else.

[–]GitEmSteveDave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably not as bad as me for assuming, for some reason, that they were not sisters, but mother/daughter, despite the age, and OP was the victim of some horrible childhood event, and this comic was trying to come to terms with it in a humorous way. So happy I was wrong and gonna blame it on the Dollaritas I had at Applesbees tonight.

[–]flarakoo 39 points40 points  (1 child)

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Well I’m going to have to send this to her lol

[–]hbools 25 points26 points  (1 child)

Love the storytelling here!

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Thank you :)

[–]seimungbing 27 points28 points  (4 children)

so who got the frosting?

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 44 points45 points  (3 children)

Not sure yet. We have scheduled pistols at dawn

[–]B_Fee 9 points10 points  (0 children)

As the older sister, you have to draw one count early. It's an important lesson the younger sister needs to learn.

[–]QuantifiableQuadroon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You joke, but my mother devised a Nerf pistol duel solution that has worked since 1995.

It involves a velcro vest, but it has prevented bloodshed

[–]CanIHazSumCheeseCake 15 points16 points  (0 children)

All bets are off when it comes to frosting.

[–]HotrodCorvair 10 points11 points  (3 children)

My brother and I are 5 years to the day apart. He says I was the best present ever. Every party we shared was awesome. We're old now, and honestly not seeing each other on our birthday is kinda sad and weird.

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 6 points7 points  (2 children)

That’s incredibly sweet! Maybe you guys can maybe plan a mini vacation or a special get together for the milestone birthdays? I didn’t so much mind sharing the day with my sister, it was the themes! Having my 15th birthday when I was in my peak emo/hot topic era be cheerleading themed wasn’t my cup of tea. Now a-days we got more of a similar vibe and celebrate close to Halloween

[–]HotrodCorvair 4 points5 points  (1 child)

We ended up living an hour away from each other. It's just the nature of things. Our families. Wifes, kids, want us to ourselves. Just like you drew, we had themes. Our cakes slit in half one half Star wars and one half cars and trucks, or something similar. Man I miss those specialty cakes. The bakery shut down after grocery stores muscled them out. :(

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea, honestly it’s the worst part of being an adult. Like my best friend and i live in different states and have been trying to catch up for a few weeks now but each time we call the other is in the middle of something. Just how it is. :/

And I agree. Grocery store cakes are not the same. Some old school ones were great but now it’s all big corporations :(

[–]Orkran 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Haha this one is particularly sweet

[–]trainwreck42 10 points11 points  (4 children)

Holy shit, we had those same chairs when I was a kid!

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 8 points9 points  (1 child)

What about the fancy blue plates that could never be used though?

[–]trainwreck42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, ours were floral with some gold trim or something. Also, they couldn’t be displayed because we were too clumsy to be trusted around breakables.

Happy birthday and thanks for the awesome comics!!

[–]unsmashedpotatoes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same, though I'm pretty sure my mom still has them.

[–]Patchy_Soul 6 points7 points  (2 children)

I was born on my sister's 12th birthday. For the first few years she was so upset with me. It didn't help that I grew into an annoying toddler.

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 6 points7 points  (1 child)

It was never you, it’s just the shift of focus parents have for the younger kids. I’d bet money you got away with a lot more things she was immediately grounded for.

[–]Patchy_Soul 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh hell yeah I did. We're super close now, and she said pretty much the same thing about our dad's attention. But we had a rough time around when I was like 7 (dad's fault) and we didn't talk for a few years.

[–]elhomerjas 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Happy Birthday must be awkward sometime to have different guess on the same party that dont know each other

[–]melchiahdim 5 points6 points  (3 children)

My youngest came close to stealing my oldest’s birthday. His due date was on his brother’s birthday. Thankfully he came a few days late.

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Of all the things, it’s not the worst. If anything I’d think it’s more stressful to the parents to keep it fair. Siblings are going to sibling no matter what’s I fought my sister over a chicken leg at dinner once. lol

[–]melchiahdim 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Honestly, I think having one kid with a September birthday, and three with October birthdays is worse lol (I am in the midst of a birthday party blitz)

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh man, I’m sorry! Plus there is all the winter holidays coming up too. Best of luck!!

[–]bored-now 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That is all kinds of awesome.

[–]Baketovens_Fifth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Amazing!

[–]DrRonny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same thing happened to me when I got a cat for my birthday

[–]nlamber5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That was beautiful

[–]butteredplaintoast 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Wait. If you were 6 years old when your sister was one, you should have been 90 by her fifteenth birthday

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Please don’t use math with me, there’s a reason I don’t have a stable career.

[–]Khadaji1028 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Happy Birthday!!!! Me and my Mom are exactly 26 years apart!!!

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Thank you! I hope you guys have great parties together!

[–]Khadaji1028 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We have enough interests that cross over that we tend to do something together. Mom and Son Gemini's in the same house is not fun for everyone else. We tend to do movie and dinner or something along those lines.

[–]Dahlia_R0se 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I almost had the same birth month as my brother, we were both due in September three years apart, but he was, as he is in all things in life, late, so he was born in October and I was early so I was born in August. But I bet there's an alternate timeline where we both were born in September around the same day and it sucks.

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That slight dig of ”as he is in all things in life” made me laugh because I’m that sibling too. lol

[–]caribou16 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My wife and her sister were born the same day, 4 years apart and this is basically all the pics i've seen of their celebrations. Well done.

[–]Bits_of_Bat 2 points3 points  (1 child)

OMG! It’s Katie’s birthday?! 🎉

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She’s currently on her way to sushi with her hubs.

[–]EvilNoobHacker 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Have a twin brother, and my family tries to do this as little as possible. I get the week before, he gets the week after.

[–]Omeggos 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I have a relatable relation with my older sister. Not with our bdays but just the general attention stealer shenanigans.

We didnt get along with eachother until our adult years

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Same with us. We’re incredibly similar but also polar opposite. We get along now but still can but heads. I almost ruined our other sisters surprise proposal by not arguing with Katie when she told me to do something (we were trying to plan something to get other sister to leave the house) and she immediately caught on to it lol

[–]kerouac666 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like Swedish and Östergötland diplomats are sending ya’ll presents every year, too.

[–]Sam474 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I loved this, it was so sweet. The picture at the end really made it. Happy Birthday ladies.

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I forget how similar we can look at times. I was digging through pictures today and it took me back :)

[–]ARasool 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Happy Birthday Dot!

[–]Bard2dbone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My late wife's family was like that. She was born two days before her Dad's birthday. On her second birthday, she got a brother. The day after her seventh and his fifth birthday, they got another brother.

Four of the five people in the house had their birthday on three consecutive days. Her Mom had hers four or five months later.

My whole life growing up, I could never remember my mom's birthday. I knew which month it was, and roughly thr part of the month. But I couldn't remember the specific date. Then, I married a woman who was born on the same day. After that,if I forgot one of them, I'd forgotten them both.

[–]bad_dream_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol its october so you guys are both either new years or valentines sex probably

[–]gr00316 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Both my daughters were born on the exact same day 4 years apart. Right now the oldest loves it, they just turned 6 and 2. We will see how long this lasts.

[–]Koolmidx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My son's birthday is 4 days before mine. I've never felt this way since i don't care, but he has. This year is the first year we haven't had a family birthday party. We did go out to dinner twice for it though.

[–]Internal_Cheetah7142 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Worked on labor and delivery for a couple of years. Had one patient give birth via C-section to twins on her own birthday. Told me that it had been a running joke with her OB for the whole pregnancy cause her husband's birthday was in the same month.

[–]HolyMolyOllyPolly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Damn, that's crazy.

Mom couldn't just hold it in, tho?

[–]NoDrama_BigNBlackDig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never hate your sister. Always love your sister. Your sister is all you got.

[–]whytfnotdoit 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I notice you stopped putting the ages on cakes. Run out of candles?

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Were old ladies now

[–]alexh2458 1 point2 points  (0 children)

God I can so relate to this! My brother’s birthday is August 6, 1996 and my birthday is August 7, 1993. (2 years and 364 days apart) I always was salty and annoyed that i had to share my birthday until one day a few years ago when I did the math and realized that my parents had sex on Thanksgiving Day both times to conceive us but 3 years apart 😂😂😂now I just think it’s hilarious and love that we are both Leos and a lot alike (even though I hated how much we were alike as kids🙈)

[–]TickyTavvvy 1 point2 points  (2 children)

We need the adult photos

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 6 points7 points  (1 child)

This is a little bit older but me and my sister at her wedding

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[–]TickyTavvvy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Both incredibly pretty and seemingly distinguished. Thanks for sharing your story and the update. Side note, I'm willing to step in as your husband if you want to keep the rivalry alive.

[–]WhopperNoPickles 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It’s my birthday too, happy birthday!

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy birthday!!

[–]thaisin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The real story was seeing if grandma was going to make it till the end.

[–]BenStegel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was born 9 years and 364 days after my eldest sister, which meant two cakes in two days for the vast majority of my life. Good times.

Although, along with us, a suspiciously large amount of my family has birthdays in august, which makes it a really busy month, almost worse than December

[–]ProjectOrpheus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I loved this! Siblings really seem to have this weird simultaneous love/hate thing. Feel the pendulum shift like "I love you, you cunty bitch!"

[–]blainthepain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Both my younger brother and I have the exact same birth date only 4 years apart. This comics too damn relatable.

[–]Lone_Eagle4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY QUEEN(s)

[–]ThickWeatherBee 1 point2 points  (1 child)

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

She stole my good looks

[–]BrokenBanette 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Y’all gotta get two smaller cakes lol

[–]reddot_comicFinessed Impropriety[S] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

What??? That’d mean less left overs!

[–]BrokenBanette 5 points6 points  (1 child)

THREE CAKES!!!

[–]WillSayAnything 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love you

[–]Orcwin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

More surface area for frosting, though.

[–]SednaBoo 1 point2 points  (1 child)

What was 9 months before your birthdays that got your parents all hot?