Today's my birthday, but I tend to be someone who, to put it lightly, doesn't even pretend give a shit about that fact. I have a fairly small group of people who're even aware about it being today, and most of them were fine with it being just another day. Hell, acknowledging the fact and wishing well for it was fine by me, and they were treating it as such. We did, however, have one or two dissenters. "Oh, but today has to be special," and shit like that. I can appreciate the sentiment once or twice, but with how often they kept pressing it, it was pissing me off a bit. In the end, I did go off on them to a degree, simply saying something along the lines of, "Look, if the person whose birthday it is wants it to be nothing special, is anyone else really in a position to say 'no, you can't have that?'" This simply led to shock and one of the dudes who was fine with the original plan calling me a dick for bringing that up.

I know in hindsight this sounds petty as hell and not unlike a call for validation, but the response I got from everyone involved has me wondering whether or not this genuinely was a bit of a dick move.