"But it means you won't get a cake!"

And I said,
    "I don't want one."
I can't remember the last birthday cake I had. It was a very, very long time ago. Birthdays were on my mind yesterday because of the party I mentioned but also because of something else.
Yesterday I had to fill out a form. It  was for a group I belong to. I suppose it was simple enough but I didn't see the relevance of my DOB - date of birth.
Yes, they have cake for "significant" birthdays - and I suppose I have one coming up - and  they sing the "happy birthday" song. I don't like the overly sweet cake  they buy. (It looks much nicer than it tastes  to me but other people like it.) I hate people singing the birthday song to me. I really don't like having a birthday. On the actual day everyone  is too busy celebrating something else to care much. It was never made a fuss of when I was a kitten and I now find the whole thing embarrassing.
So, I didn't put my DOB on the form. I see no point. I don't want cake. I don't want people singing to me - especially when most of them don't really know me and couldn't care less one except for the cake. 
But the form had other things - like address and phone number and email and whether you wanted to get the newsletter by email (yes - let's save the tree it gets printed on). I was happy enough to supply those.
At some point I will be able to help with things like "door duty" - something I can't do now because the Senior Cat needs me far more than they do. Whether I do any more teaching is up to them. If - when - things change in the group then I will. 
There wasn't room to say this or answer the other question on the form that might have been important.
And an important question was left off - or at least a question I think is important. A lot of people in the group are older. Emergencies do occur. There was nowhere on the form to put contact details of someone to contact in an emergency. I can  hear someone there saying, "Well someone would contact the Senior Cat."  That's not what I would want. I would want them to contact Middle Cat or my nephew.  
I have now been a thoroughly irritating and scratchy cat and sent the committee a message making the suggestion it needs to be included. They might already have thought of it and decided against it for some reason but I felt I had to suggest the need for a contact.
If they take the idea up I might make them biscuits. That would be better than birthday cake for me. I don't need that.