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10 things only leap year babies get

26 Feb, 2016
 

 

Are you about to have a leap year baby? Or do you already have a leap year baby?

Here's what you have to prepare him for - from one leap year baby to another.

Happy birthday fellow leapies!

Getting pitying looks

Getting pitying looks

Leap year babies usually get a mix of emotions when people find out about our birthday.

People in Group A will offer unsolicited sympathy and leap year babies will just have to smile politely (usually through gritted teeth) and live with it.

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Getting over-enthused responses

Getting over-enthused responses

People in Group B will exclaim "Wow, that’s so cool! Your life is like the movies!"

Nope. Nope, not really.

Cold Jokes about one’s age

Cold Jokes about one’s age

If leap year babies had a penny for every snigger and cold joke about our "real age", we would be the richest people on the planet.

Yes, I am really 32, and yes, I have celebrated only eight birthdays. No, it does not make me eight years old, you smart aleck.

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No birthday songs in school or presents from acquaintances.

No birthday songs in school or presents from acquaintances.

Apparently, since the leap year baby’s birthday does not occur on most years, we don’t get to celebrate our birthdays either, except with our really close friends and family. Everyone else doesn’t remember because it doesn’t get marked out on calendars. Not even on Facebook. Sob.

An unfortunate familiarity with kiddy birthday cards

An unfortunate familiarity with kiddy birthday cards

Because that’s what we get for many more years than we should be getting them from our friends who think they are terribly witty.

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We usually don’t get to celebrate it on the “actual day”

We usually don’t get to celebrate it on the “actual day”

Yes, it does make a big difference when it’s a milestone birthday! Imagine waiting 18 years to legally take your first tequila shot, and then having to wait another day. I cannot even tell you how teeth-gnashing frustrating that is!

We have an excuse to go wild when our actual birthday does come about

We have an excuse to go wild when our actual birthday does come about

Because, hey, we only get it once every four years. Leap year babies know how to party!

We also tend to think we are preeettttyy special

We also tend to think we are preeettttyy special

Because, what are the odds of being born on a leap year? The great cosmos has spoken - Leap year babies are special! Or so we like to think.

Others also tend to think we are pretty special

Others also tend to think we are pretty special

I know of a leap year baby friend who actually made it on to the school news, just because she was a leap year baby. There is an interesting fascination from society in general about us. I mean, we are pretttyyyy special.

When we get old, we tend to fall back on the leap year joke we hated as kids

When we get old, we tend to fall back on the leap year joke we hated as kids

It’s like having an eternal fountain of youth to tap on. And we ain’t even lying, because, in a way, it is true that we are only sweet sixteen by the time our teeth are falling out.

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