It was my birthday a few weeks ago, and I happened to meet up with my friend the afternoon before, at a school event.
We've known each other years, I always remember her birthday. She normally remembers mine but not always, (this doesn't bother me at all btw!)
Anyway, my ds let slip to her the following day that it was my birthday, he and her children are good friends. She's been making the odd comment since, saying that I really could have mentioned the following day was my birthday when we met, then she would have had time to get me a card and small gift, and wouldn't have felt so awful about forgetting!
I've told her that it really didn't matter, (she popped in the day after with a hastily wrapped gift), I was grateful but she needn't have.
Do other people tend to remind people of their birthdays, or keep quiet? I'm of the mindset that if someone remembers they do, if they don't they don't. I certainly don't think less of them for it!