If you don't mind I'll share a little story with you.
It was August 21st 1993. It was a Saturday morning about 10.00 and I was lying in bed. My girlfriend had gone downstairs to make me a cup of coffee and I was just lying there thinking how nice it was to be here in the warmth of the morning sun and having a nice cup of coffee being brought up to me.
Suddenly, a dreadful thought entered my head. Was it the 20th or the 21st??? Her birthday is the 21st but what day is it today?? A quick look on CeeFax confirmed my worst nightmare. I had forgotten her birthday and hadn't bought her a present. What could I do??
I heard the footsteps coming up the stairs and I started to sweat. Panic set in as she walked into the room with the coffee and said 'Good Morning'.
Quick as a flash I said, 'You think I've forgotten your birthday don't you?'
'I don't know' she said 'Why, have you?'
'Of course not, I just didn't want to get you something you wouldn't like' I said. Then the master stroke. 'How would you like an engagement ring?'
And the rest, as they say, is history.
The moral of the story? Forgetting your girlfriend's birthday really can cost you for the rest of your life, beware.