To decline

decline (d-kln)
v. declined, declining, declines

v.intr.
~ To express polite refusal.

v.tr.
~ To refuse politely: I declined their offer of help.

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The question is, how do one go about declining an invitation from someone who remembers one's birthday and sounds genuinely interested to celebrate for one?

I think yours truly is being too nice. Help me, dear evilness. What is wrong with me or is it the world has gone nuts?

Yours truly has an acquaintance, a really young acquaintance - *immature, who feels that yours truly has been really nice and so, asked yours truly out. *roll eyes*.

Yes, *immature asked me out on or during my bday. Hello?! What is going on here. Yes, dear evilness, I am more amendable to invitations, but this is too much, surely. I mean, *immature is barely an acquaintance, not even close enough that yours truly would want to maintain contact, let alone go out together? But how does one go about declining an invitation from an immature youth? It would feel like stepping on a young puppy or something. *roll eyes*

Again, why me? What is wrong?

Moreover, did I mention that *immature is having a cold war with *blunt, and I'm firmly in *blunt's camp? No? Well, now you see how ridiculous the whole situation is? I am not a neutral party here. Worse, I haven't even been deliberately nice to *immature, in fact, I am likely to be more *short tempered with *immature because prolonged exposure to *immature gets on my nerve. So there's really no call for *immature to think of me as nice and to want to celebrate yours truly's bday?

Maybe I should continue being my old cold-hearted sarcastic bitch again? I certainly dun wanna go back to days where I have so many boringly nice people asking me out and cracking my head to think up the least offensive yet most obvious way of declining. And there I thought I have outgrown the need for such defenses since junior school days. *ruefully*

People must be more masochistic than yours truly believed.

Deary deary me. *dryly*