Why do people congratulate you on your birthday? It's not a great achievement to age. Or are they expressing the sentiment that it's odd you're not dead yet? Attention is nice, but I've long wondered what exactly 'congratulations' means in the context of birthdays.
Here in the Netherlands, people congratulate your relatives for your birthday. That one always makes me think they're congratulating them for putting up with you for another year.
Sanity prevailed yesterday as we went for the Apache option.