My parents drove off to the restaurant for my birthday dinner and it took them 15 minutes of driving til they noticed I wasn't in the car with them. When they finally came back I had already called my sister to pick me up who was almost dying from laughing so hard
I stopped getting cake at the age of 11. Getting adults expensive and overdecorated cakes seems a bit childish to me, but hey people can do whatever the hell they want.
You can have lots of other snacks without the long preparation which is always such a pain in the ass. Cake is good but baking one is horrible work, and having one made at a bakery isn't very cheap. Personally I prefer just getting some nacho chips and Coke and chill instead of singing a creepy song around a pastry on fire.
On my 8th birthday, my twin and I got up at like 5AM and opened every present because of a misunderstanding. Later that day, my dog ate my shoes because ice cream spilled on them, and my twin's hair caught on fire. We both look back and laugh, but it was a MESS at the time.
My worst birthday was last year when I was getting my 15 infected pin sites from my Ilizarov frame (search it up) cleaned. I found out a few weeks later I also had severe blood poisoning and had to have emergency surgery to have the frame removed, and if they had found out any later I would have had to have my leg amputated :/
Who cares Meg!? -.-