Everyone is allowed to do what they want on their birthday. It’s our designated day of the year when we can be selfish and give in to our desires. We have 364 other days of the year to be selfless, brave, and giving. We can have one day where we want to eat a whole cake and then do so because nobody can stop us. 

But most of us birthday-havers don’t have such complex requests. Maybe we just want a dinner with a few of our friends and maybe a toast. That’s not so much to ask for. You’re lucky that we’re not asking you to self-fund a trip to Tahiti for 3 days and pay for our hotel rooms. But sometimes people have difficulty even doing that small task. They can’t put aside their own selfish needs long enough for you to have a nice birthday. That’s what happened in this story.