Birthday Parties, Beckham Style

Turning 9, for this bloggerette and her friends, involved balloons, cake, presents, sometimes bowling, occasionally a swimming pool, and once, behavior so rambunctious that one of of the mom’s excluded yours truly from the invitation list the following year.

Compare that to Brooklyn Beckham, fortunate offspring of David and Victoria Beckham. He blew out candles before the likes of Heidi Klum and Eva Longoria at the chic Pink Taco in Century City, CA. (Beck himself was traveling in Asia with the L.A. Galaxy–and doing an admirable good deed: visiting young leukemia patients).

Impressive. The closest we ever came to birthday celebrity encounters in our 1980s youth were copies of Tiger Beat passed around at slumber parties while arguing over who would marry Tom Cruise and who was most likely to be cast in a future installment of The Karate Kid with Ralph Macchio.

Yeah, we were cool.