Why is it that one day of the year is hailed as sweethearts day? I always find that to be the strangest thing. As if by going out and buying cards and flowers, they can make up for a years worth of apathy.
My dh and I actually discuss this often. We look at Valentine’s Day as a greeting card holiday, you know, invented by the greeting card companies for the greeting card companies. We’re just amazed so many people buy into it.
We shake our heads at those poor guys who race through the grocery store in hopes of finding something to give, their wife, sweetheart, girlfriend, whatever. They’re always left with the remnants of what everyone else passed by. Does that really say honey you’re special and I love you?
The sad thing is these same people do this year after year, like Pavlov’s dog when the bell has been rung. You’d think after a while they’d learn.
Oh well, there’s always next year.
February 12th, 2003
