Best Day of the Year to Turn 21?

[Outshined_One]

Pick one and explain yourself.

 

If you're wondering, one of my friends just had a kid on May 5th. It got me thinking about this topic.

[Andy]

Interesting debate. I went with Halloween. Free drinks, costumes and even more likely than the other days to have morally questionable girls wearing little. It's a good combination. Mine was three days before so I had some luck there.

[Guest]

Other/None of the above.

 

You're going to party on those days anyway so why waste your birthday on one of them?

[SouthSideRyan]

Other/None of the above.

 

You're going to party on those days anyway so why waste your birthday on one of them?

 

This.

 

The days around holidays suck too. My birthday's 12-30. Quite possibly the worst day to have a birthday that's not a holiday. Oh hey guys wanna go out til 4 AM the day before New Year's Eve?? No??

[Guest]

My birthday is on New Years Day. It sucks being out on one of the biggest drinking and party nights, minutes from turning 21 and getting carded everywhere you go and being turned away for a drink.

 

And then everyone's trying to sober up the night of your birthday.

[Outshined_One]

Other/None of the above.

 

You're going to party on those days anyway so why waste your birthday on one of them?

 

Because more people are likely to come out and party with you. Plus, there will be more people out on those days who will be more likely to buy you free drinks for your birthday.

[TruffleShuffle]

i say fourth of july. you (and whoever is with you) can drink all day, eat loads of corn on the cob and barbeque food, then at the end of the day you can say that the fireworks are for you being born.

[javy knows my name]

I picked cinco de mayo because it was the closest to my actual birthday, the fourth. Although it did suck this year being that it was the weekend before finals and all.

Last year was awesome because I was in France and no one gave a damn about finals week.

[rawaction]

My wife's birthday is/was May 5th. Ain't nothing special about it. I voted for Halloween for the same reasons as Andy.

[Tracer Bullet]

My wife's birthday is/was May 5th. Ain't nothing special about it. I voted for Halloween for the same reasons as Andy.

 

This is the obvious choice. Andy nailed it with the first post. Close the poll.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Other/None of the above.

 

You're going to party on those days anyway so why waste your birthday on one of them?

 

 

I agree with this sentiment.

[UMFan83]

I personally prefer St. Patty's day. Halloween is nice, but everyone is too hung up on each other's costumes and the aforementioned scantily dressed women to give a damn about your birthday. Edited May 8, 2008 by UMFan83

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Other/None of the above.

 

You're going to party on those days anyway so why waste your birthday on one of them?

winner

[SouthSideRyan]

Other/None of the above.

 

You're going to party on those days anyway so why waste your birthday on one of them?

 

Because more people are likely to come out and party with you. Plus, there will be more people out on those days who will be more likely to buy you free drinks for your birthday.

 

Some of us are cool enough to get people to go out for our birthdays just based on us.

[jersey cubs fan]

I personally prefer St. Patty's day. Halloween is nice, but everyone is too hung up on each other's customers and the aforementioned scantily dressed women to give a damn about your birthday.

 

By everyone do you mean hookers and by customers do you mean Johns?

 

 

The only right answer is other.

 

New Years would be horrible. Halloween has some upside, but a lot of the best Halloween parties don't necessarily fall on that day, it can be before.

 

Bottom line is you are somebody who is going to party on your 21st, you are already going to party for all those holidays. Why not mix one more holiday into your year.

 

The better question is, what day of the week is best. Assuming you are in college, a Wednesday or Thursday may be best. Mine was a Friday, I think. My parents visited the next day and while we were eating lunch at a bar/restaurant near campus I had a lot of people stop by to comment on my birthday the night before, most of which I don't remember seeing.

[UMFan83]

I personally prefer St. Patty's day. Halloween is nice, but everyone is too hung up on each other's customers and the aforementioned scantily dressed women to give a damn about your birthday.

 

By everyone do you mean hookers and by customers do you mean Johns?

 

 

D'oh! Freudian slip...?

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I personally prefer St. Patty's day. Halloween is nice, but everyone is too hung up on each other's customers and the aforementioned scantily dressed women to give a damn about your birthday.

 

By everyone do you mean hookers and by customers do you mean Johns?

 

 

D'oh! Freudian slip...?

 

 

Been thinking too much about the Vegas trip?

[rawaction]

You guys are missing the point. It's Halloween.

 

New Year's is the only of those holidays that make people want to make out, but Halloween is a popular time for house parties. So, you combine women in their best ho costume and the built in excuse to act like their costume would suggest. And you have the house party atmosphere, where chicks are more apt to hook up with you because you aren't some stranger in a bar. Even though you may be a stranger, being at the house party suggests that you at least know someone at the house party who knows someone who knows someone at the house party, who knows the girl you are hollerin' at. Makes women more comfortable. To top it off, you have attention drawn to yourself because it is your birthday. I do agree however, that most Halloween parties are the weekend before. So, 10/24- 10/30 may be the best birthday.

 

Not everyone goes out for the 4th (more of a family holiday IMO). Not everyone goes out for St. Pattys. Cinco de Mayo...are you serious? NYE is lame. Most sane people stay home away from the crazies. Plus you have women w/ NY resolutions of not being the ho they were on Halloween starting that night.

 

Any non-holiday, you risk not having very many people out to get the attention needed to make your 21st b-day great.

[jersey cubs fan]

You guys are missing the point. It's Halloween.

 

New Year's is the only of those holidays that make people want to make out, but Halloween is a popular time for house parties. So, you combine women in their best ho costume and the built in excuse to act like their costume would suggest. And you have the house party atmosphere, where chicks are more apt to hook up with you because you aren't some stranger in a bar. Even though you may be a stranger, being at the house party suggests that you at least know someone at the house party who knows someone who knows someone at the house party, who knows the girl you are hollerin' at. Makes women more comfortable. To top it off, you have attention drawn to yourself because it is your birthday. I do agree however, that most Halloween parties are the weekend before. So, 10/24- 10/30 may be the best birthday.

 

Not everyone goes out for the 4th (more of a family holiday IMO). Not everyone goes out for St. Pattys. Cinco de Mayo...are you serious? NYE is lame. Most sane people stay home away from the crazies. Plus you have women w/ NY resolutions of not being the ho they were on Halloween starting that night.

 

Any non-holiday, you risk not having very many people out to get the attention needed to make your 21st b-day great.

 

Most 21st birthdays involve guys getting so wasted they either wouldn't remember a hook-up, or would hook-up with somebody not worth it. All those positives of Halloween are exactly the same with or without the birthday. Your costume will bring the attention. July 4 has girls in bikinis. The day-time can be family oriented, but the bars won't be, and that's where a 21-year old is going. I don't know anybody who doesn't go out for the 4th. Cinco de Mayo involves tequila, so while there may not be the same quality......

 

Agree on New Years.

 

As for your last point. That can only be true if you live in the boonies. If people want to find a crowd, they can, any day of the week in any decent city in America.

[UMFan83]

^ Great response Raw. Where I'm from, everyone goes out for St. Patty's day. Maybe the day before Thanksgiving would be a good day too. It's the supposed "most participated party day of the year"

[rawaction]

^ Great response Raw. Where I'm from, everyone goes out for St. Patty's day. Maybe the day before Thanksgiving would be a good day too. It's the supposed "most participated party day of the year"

 

I will admit, day before thanksgiving parties have always been the truth! It was a big day when I was in college because all the people I went to highschool with were home then and we all happened to the same place every year, before and after 21.

[rawaction]

 

As for your last point. That can only be true if you live in the boonies. If people want to find a crowd, they can, any day of the week in any decent city in America.

 

 

This is true. Pittsburgh is not a decent city then, though.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Pittsburgh is not a decent city

just in case anyone missed it the first time

[SouthSideRyan]

^ Great response Raw. Where I'm from, everyone goes out for St. Patty's day. Maybe the day before Thanksgiving would be a good day too. It's the supposed "most participated party day of the year"

 

I will admit, day before thanksgiving parties have always been the truth! It was a big day when I was in college because all the people I went to highschool with were home then and we all happened to the same place every year, before and after 21.

 

I hate the night before Thanksgiving.

[hardcorecubfan]

traditional world worker day of May 1st. I always thought the Russians were having those large parades for me.