Wildcat
Retired Moderator
Do you guys in the UK and other countries celebrate Valentine’s Day?
Warning...rant follows...
In my personal opinion, I think that Valentine’s Day is the stupidest, most idiotic holiday that someone ever thought up. It’s nothing more than an evil plot by the card and candy companies to force people go out and spend money, or suffer the consequences of being shunned by their significan others. I don’t see why we need a special day just to tell people that we love them anyway.
It’s not just that though, I have a personal vendetta against Valentine’s Day. It all started back in third grade when I came down with Mono on Valentine’s Day. I distinctly remember it was this day because my class was having a party and I was upset because I had to go to the nurse’s office and miss it. I was so sick that my mom took to the emergency room that afternoon and I ended up staying in the hospital for something like 2 days. I remember her bringing me those stupid paper valentines from my classmates while I was there. I was sick on and off for nearly a month after that and almost had to repeat 3rd grade, but luckily I got special circumstances because I had good grades and made up all of my work. Every year after that, without fail, I would get sick on or near Valentines Day. This went on for something like 5 years. Not with mono, but some kind of illness. Maybe it was psychological, I don’t know.
It doesn’t end there. A guy broke up with me on Valentine’s Day after we’d been dating for a year and a half when I was a junior in high school. On Valentine’s Day!!! How lame is that? I mean, he couldn’t have at least waited until the next day to do it? He probably just wanted to get out of buying me a crappy $2.00 gift. So everyone was walking around with their stupid balloons and stuffed animals talking about how much in love they were while I was bawling my eyes out all day.
So that’s my rant about Valentines Day. I normally don’t complain about things too much, but I think that I have valid reasons for hating it. I was tempted to call this the Valentine’s Day hate thread, but I remembered that some of you may actually like it.
So what are your thoughts? Like it, hate it, or what?
Warning...rant follows...
In my personal opinion, I think that Valentine’s Day is the stupidest, most idiotic holiday that someone ever thought up. It’s nothing more than an evil plot by the card and candy companies to force people go out and spend money, or suffer the consequences of being shunned by their significan others. I don’t see why we need a special day just to tell people that we love them anyway.
It’s not just that though, I have a personal vendetta against Valentine’s Day. It all started back in third grade when I came down with Mono on Valentine’s Day. I distinctly remember it was this day because my class was having a party and I was upset because I had to go to the nurse’s office and miss it. I was so sick that my mom took to the emergency room that afternoon and I ended up staying in the hospital for something like 2 days. I remember her bringing me those stupid paper valentines from my classmates while I was there. I was sick on and off for nearly a month after that and almost had to repeat 3rd grade, but luckily I got special circumstances because I had good grades and made up all of my work. Every year after that, without fail, I would get sick on or near Valentines Day. This went on for something like 5 years. Not with mono, but some kind of illness. Maybe it was psychological, I don’t know.
It doesn’t end there. A guy broke up with me on Valentine’s Day after we’d been dating for a year and a half when I was a junior in high school. On Valentine’s Day!!! How lame is that? I mean, he couldn’t have at least waited until the next day to do it? He probably just wanted to get out of buying me a crappy $2.00 gift. So everyone was walking around with their stupid balloons and stuffed animals talking about how much in love they were while I was bawling my eyes out all day.
So that’s my rant about Valentines Day. I normally don’t complain about things too much, but I think that I have valid reasons for hating it. I was tempted to call this the Valentine’s Day hate thread, but I remembered that some of you may actually like it.
So what are your thoughts? Like it, hate it, or what?