Smile and look around at all the people who want to celebrate you, and muse on how fortunate you are to have them in your life.
What are you, some kind of normie?
Smile creepily and make direct and awkward eye contact?
Yes, but with one person in particular.
Yeah, or you can even just smile and fake it.
For anyone out there who has problems with things like this, remember, you can always just observe what other people do in the same situation, and then do the same thing when it happens to you. This is basically what other people intuitively do, but not everyone has the same sort of intuition.
This but creepier
Masturbate furiously. The goal is to finish when the song ends.
Like your style
The cake needed a little more icing anyway.
I could never last that long.
This is why I’m banned from Applebees.
Well that's just the icing on the cake
Move your hands like you are conducting the symphony.
This is the best answer.
It stops you feeling awkward. It's gets a chuckle from everyone involved, and it makes you feel a lot more confident (fake it till you make it type effect).
Extra qudos if you finish by pointing your mock baton at the friend you know is going to go "hip hip".
scream in pain and agony until its quiet, then say "thank you everyone, let's enjoy the cake"
Slap on a grateful expression, stare into the candles, and conjure up a wish worthy of the magic they're casting with this ancient chant.
Bathe in the adulation, absorb their hymn of worship like the shining golden god you are. To thine own self be true! Happy Birthday = Hail Satan
Immediately blow the candles out and get them to stop singing so it’s no longer awkward for everyone involved.
That is so much more awkward. I love it.
I did it a few years back, just in the spur of the moment wondering if it would stop the song; it did and they’ve stopped singing to me since then, so I consider it a double win.
absolute power move, that's awesome
When I was little, I always did a weird cringey little dance. As an adult I started doing it again. It makes an awkward situation (for me), fun.
Twerk
You're supposed to sit there awkwardly looking deeply embarrassed.
Join in the singing but replace the word "you" with the word "me".
This is the actual correct answer, no?
Grab your cat and prop them up like they're being marionetted and make them do a little dance
Smile and wave boys, smile and wave
Hand out cigars
Cry.
Throw heavy objects at their heads until they shut the fuck up, then eat the cake while they ponder where exactly they went wrong
unzip
I absolutely loathe this tradition, and I ask everyone to not do it in celebration of me. I also ask friends and family to not let anyone know it's my birthday at any restaurant we're at, as well. I fucking hate being sung to. Like, a lot. Just give me a pat on the back or something for Chrissake.....
Find the exit.
Grin and bear it
Become the conductor of the choir.
Think about how you're slowly creeping towards death.
The older I get, the more quickly it creeps.
Stand up, hand on your heart and sing along but with "to meeee"
Stare at everyone with disdain except for one person. Pure contempt for that person. After the singing has concluded. I point at that one person and say “Execute them”. Damn it feels good to be good to be a benevolent dictator.
I usually just screech loudly until it's over or the restaurant staff come over to intervene
Sing with them.
Sit and grin?
I just sit there and guess if the singers will use my full name, or the short form, or my nickname. And then giggle stupid when they inevitably try to use all 3 together.
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