Fiftieth birthday at work. With the full department in attendance, my boss prepared a surprise birthday party with the apparent theme of, "You're so old, you're about to die! Ha-Ha!" The cake had a tombstone on it with black icing, and all the balloons and decorations were black. It didn't offend me so much as I was just amazed at the incredible low-brow stupidity of it all. [By the way, young Padawans, you may not believe it, but FIFTY IS NOT OLD. It's more like just being your fully adult self, but that's something you may not realize until you're another twenty years down the road.]
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