> 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."
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> 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.
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> Brunnen-"this happened to somebody else"G

Another quaint NZ custom?
Howard