I just discovered that What The Hack, for which I have a ticket, coincides with my girlfriend’s birthday, the first one for either of us since we got together. We’ve not been together that long so I’ve not really known her birthday until recently. Thankfully she’s not laying the law down to me and at least I can try to work out what to do. I’m not sure whether the ticket is refundable or transferrable to someone else but I would feel terrible if I missed her birthday. I think she’s willing to forgive my discovery if I buy her a car 😉

This reminds me a lot of the scene from Trainspotting in the nightclub where Tommy is telling Spud about his girlfriend Lizzy going nuts at him for forgetting her birthday and buying a ticket for an Iggy Pop gig which is on the same night. The scene is intercut with shots of Lizzy in the nightclub toilets talking to Spud’s girlfriend Gail explaining the same situation. The scene closes with Lizzy and Gail returning from the toilet and interrupting Tommy and Spud’s conversation by saying, “What yoo talkin’ aboot?”, they look nervously at each other and reply, “Football. What yoo talkin’ aboot?” to which they smugly respond with, “Shopping.” Sadly this is the penultimate milestone on the road to the end of Tommy’s relationship with Lizzy, the beginning of a downward spiral that results in Tommy becoming a heroin addict like his friends and ultimately his death.

Hopefully the same will not come of me.