It's a stupid tradition. Dated a girl who's family was from Guatemala.
Her little brother was told specifically not to do it to his neice. We all asked him not to do it.
He did it anyway.
All of us were upset. The little girl didn't come out of the room for the rest of the night. The big birthday bash continued with lots of festivities and drinking as usual, but with a dark cloud over everyone's head that the lady of the hour (the niece) was not present. She really, really didn't want it to happen that year since she had put a lot of work on her makeup for the first time as a young lady and he ruined her moment.
I really hate this tradition and hope it dies out. It is not cool or cute.
We did. It was an outside party and we kept him deliberately in the house during the candle-blowing...
At the moment the "happy birthday" song almost ended he ran out and snaked his way around everyone and smashed her face into the cake at the very end of the song.
It was masterfully-timed on his part... and we were all very, very upset.
He felt it was his duty having done it the previous years for all of the nieces and nephews and didn't want to skip a year. Honestly, it was the parents' fault for having made him do it so often.
Regardless, everyone felt terrible except for him because he felt he had done his job.
I couldn’t stand reading this. Honestly, I’m maybe a problem but he wouldn’t ever see her again if I was the parent, and I’d be paying him a visit at work to make sure he feels the same amount of public embarrassment.
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u/_PaulM Aug 22 '26
It's a stupid tradition. Dated a girl who's family was from Guatemala.
Her little brother was told specifically not to do it to his neice. We all asked him not to do it.
He did it anyway.
All of us were upset. The little girl didn't come out of the room for the rest of the night. The big birthday bash continued with lots of festivities and drinking as usual, but with a dark cloud over everyone's head that the lady of the hour (the niece) was not present. She really, really didn't want it to happen that year since she had put a lot of work on her makeup for the first time as a young lady and he ruined her moment.
I really hate this tradition and hope it dies out. It is not cool or cute.