Or, as Shawn's father said as we were leaving, "Don't get any older!" and I said, "Are you kidding? I hope to get a LOT older!" My eye doctor once said when I complained about getting older, "it beats the alternative."

Although I remember a friend of mine from IHRC at his birthday party. He was turning 18 and he said, raising his glass of sparkling juice, "One more step closer to the grave!" He was an exchange student from China, but I don't think it was cultural -- I think he was being particularly morbid.