Valentine’s Day
I have disliked this “holiday” for about 5 years now. While I think it’s cute that grade school children hand out mini cards to their friends and grandma’s send $5 bills in cards with hearts all over them to their grandchildren, I find it disturbing that our country puts so much focus on this bogus money making scheme they call a “day of love.”
A lot of women in relationships expect a dozen or so long stemmed red roses which are marked up anywhere from 100% to 500% in price. They don’t blink an eye that the man they love just spent $150 on flowers that will be wilted and dry in a week. Then they expect to be taken out to dinner at a fancy restaurant and have another $150-$200 spent on a meal they hardly eat. It’s a total waste! No wonder many men break up with their girlfriends right before Valentine’s Day, not because they don’t want to shell out loads of cash on a girl, they just don’t want to shell it out for THAT girl.
Women can be selfish, materialistic bitches at times, and this day brings out the best in that. Women expect lavish gifts on this day and if they don’t get it suddenly that nice guy is a total insensitive jerk that definitely won’t be getting any tonight.
Valentine’s day is also successful in making single women feel like shit. This day reminds them that they don’t have a man who loves them. A little sarcastic “oh boo-hoo” is in order but at the same time I can understand their woes.
I didn’t expect anything for Valentine’s day because my husband knows how I feel about this day. He bought me a dozen pink roses from the grocery store for $9.99, bravo for his frugality. He also bought me a Coach purse, which I think is totally insane, so I’m going to make him take it back (and buy me a Burberry one). I can be a materialistic bitch at times too.
3 years ago