It Would Be Belated
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (100310)
United States
June 2, 2025 6:48am CST
While we were on our camping trip, we were driving around headed for the Trail of Tears park in Jackson, MO near Cape Girardeu on the 31st, where the camper was dropped, and my wife happened to remind me that May 31st was my nephew's birthday.
"Yeah," I told her. "Remind me to send him a Happy Belated Birthday text tomorrow."
Larry, my wife's cousin gave me a discerning look. "What? Why not just text him on his birthday?"
I gave him a very serious look back and told him, "But then it wouldn't be a BELATED birthday text."
He's got a sense of humor similar to mine and so he did at least immediately get the joke. Not that it was particularly ha-ha funny, but it did provide for a good laugh at least.
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@BarBaraPrz (49760)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
2 Jun
Did that penguin just have a heart attack? =Clear!=
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@porwest (100310)
• United States
2 Jun
@BarBaraPrz Ever since I took that picture I've wondered what exactly that was a shadow of. MAYBE the cherry blossom tree we have out front? Or it was indeed...Annabelle. lol
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@DaddyEvil (149670)
• United States
2 Jun
I only knew a couple of my brothers' birthdays... One brother's birthday is two days after mine. He and I call and sing happy birthday to each other on our birthdays. *shrug* A little screwy but still fun.
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@DaddyEvil (149670)
• United States
2 Jun
@porwest I know that's the case when there were 16 kids. 
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@porwest (100310)
• United States
3 Jun
@DaddyEvil Between nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles...I'm completely lost. lol
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@moffittjc (124526)
• Gainesville, Florida
3 Jun
I probably had as many belated birthday wishes as I did actual birthday wishes. Which I don't mind at all, because my birthday was on Friday and I celebrated over the entire weekend.
@lovebuglena (46556)
• Staten Island, New York
3 Jun
A “happy belated birthday” is better than nothing at all.
@luisadannointed (7596)
• Philippines
3 Jun
HAHAHAHAH! You have a point there.
Sometimes I also do that, but with a different reason; I do that because I am a bit lazy. Lol!
@JudyEv (354954)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Jun
I would have understood the joke. Some are very slow to pick up on humour and if you have to explain it, then it's not really funny any more.
