On 2021-02-07 9:17 a.m., Sheldon Martin wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Feb 2021Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2021-02-06 Leo wrote:
>>> On 2021 Feb 6, , jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>>> Happy Birthday to your SIL. Thanks for the pics.
>>>
>>> My SIL thanks you for your thoughts. Seventy is a "more significant than
>>> ordinary" milestone.
>>>
>> My 70th birthday sort of sucked. We had planned to go out for dinner
>> with my son and his fiancee. Restaurants had been closed to indoor
>> dining for a few months and had reopened... with strict limits and
>> controls.
>
> Why couldn't you have planned to prepare a nice meal at home?
> Dining at home is always more enjoyable than noisy busy restaurants
> filled with strangers.


Why??? Because I like going out for dinner.



>You could have ordered a nice 70th birthday
> cake from most any bakery.


I don't care about cake. I don't understand what people see in cakes.
If I had a choice of a dozen different desserts, cake would probably be
number 12.




And it wasn't as if you had a crowd to
> cook for, two extra people. Actually your son and his girlfriend
> should have prepared your 70th birthday celebration otherwise you
> treating them is back assward.
>