Birthday Wishes

Jenan Alhamli
Jul 23, 2017 · 2 min read

1) I hope Starbucks keeps spelling my name right.

2) I hope I get one of these chairs when they get distributed.

3) I hope to God people would stop treating me like a child because I’m not a “coffee person” nor a “-black- tea person”. And that they (coffee people and tea people) would stop telling me how I’m “missing out on life” because I don’t drink their favorite drink!

4) I hope I could financially and socially afford veganism (financially, because — . Socially, it comes with “you spoiled kid” stairs, and they’re most lethal when emitted from my mom’s eyeballs; Vegan until my mom cooks)

5) I hope people would understand that not finding their jokes funny doesn’t make me rude. I hope my mom’s inexpressible face when talking to her would fake a little interest and would may be -for once, for a change- maybe ask me to resume talking mode when something/one interrupts me.

6) I hope all the rest of the Ranch sauce tiny packets that came with this batch were consumed and not one of them was thrown out without being wiped out from the inside. At least, I hope this American pizza shop somewhere Amsterdam did that (I mean that was back in March, they had plenty of time to be consumed, no?)

7) I hope God would grant me the courage and audacity, to say my real age from now till the day I die!

*Amen*

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