Water Taxi Beach.
Last weekend, my boys decided to have a double team birthday party at Water Taxi Beach. By showing up to one party, I was able to satisfy two separate birthdays! This is a step in the right direction.
If I had my way, I would take every group of friends, and reassign their individual birthdays and birthday parties to be on exactly the same day at the same time. I would also decree that there could be absolutely no deviation from this communal birth "date", including, under no circumstances, separate birthday celebrations, or even worse, birthday dinners.
Such sweeping change is possible. For example, I've had a longstanding policy of boycotting birthday dinners (or group dinners — defined as parties of more than 4 people congregating at a specific time to eat food together at a restaurant or bar), and, proudly after years and years, I've trained my friends to accept this and thus disclude me from such events. Now, I don't even have to do anything, like make up some bullshit about how I can't attend. Now they just know — they have been trained.
Oh yeah, I noticed I took lots of pictures of shirtless dudes, but I'm no homo. See, look:
