"surprise!"

so i got this phone call today from a buddy from university.

"a little bird tells me it was your birthday recently..."
uh... kind of. about three weeks ago.
"oh. so it wasn't april 16th?"
nope
"hmm. [pause] i got an email about two months ago, some friends of yours were trying to organise a surprise birthday party for you. i had the 16th in my diary. i emailed them back with my phone number but never heard anything else."
really? how strange. no, it was march 23rd. i'm not having a party. sorry. so anyway, how's life?

i don't really know what to make of it. apart from assume that if someone/people (i could take a wild guess, it wouldn't be that hard) were still planning it, it's, ah, kinda just been ruined. oops. hate big surprises like that anyway so thank god they didn't do anything.

on kilburn high road at lunchtime i saw this old man rockin a pair of bright blue - well, i guess they'd be turquoise converse all stars. brilliant.