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RE: The Biggest Valentine's Day Myths of All Time
February 13, 2018 at 4:08 pm
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(February 13, 2018 at 3:42 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: (February 12, 2018 at 10:26 pm)Fireball Wrote: I got married on Valentine's Day. Haven't forgotten an Anniversary, yet.  We celebrate on some other day, because everybody else is in the restaurants that day.
I got married ten days after so I could get the leftovers on the cheap... er... so I could spoil her rotten once a year. 
Just order flowers 7 to 10 days ahead, to be picked up then. You will get the pre-Valentine's day price instead of the jacked-up price, the day of.
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RE: The Biggest Valentine's Day Myths of All Time
February 13, 2018 at 4:11 pm
Fuck Valentines Day.
Fuck it with a 6 foot long rusty pole.
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RE: The Biggest Valentine's Day Myths of All Time
February 13, 2018 at 4:38 pm
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: The Biggest Valentine's Day Myths of All Time
February 14, 2018 at 2:34 am
When i was young i would hate Valentines Day as it made me feel more lonely. It doesn't bother me anymore. It can be cute i suppose.
Anyways, Happy Single Awareness Day. Why not celebrate being single by treating yourself. To those who face the world alone without a lover and friends. It may seem like the world has forgotten about you or people have given up on you. But don't give up on yourself, your dreams.
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RE: The Biggest Valentine's Day Myths of All Time
February 14, 2018 at 3:46 am
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This board is obviously chock full of romantic souls, lol.
The first valentines day I remember must have been in the fourth grade. There was a girl (because there's always a girl), she lived three avenues north and two streets west, in a double lot with a wall that had ivy. I'd known her forever. She and I and my best friend Joel were always the first three to finish lot sprints at PE, by a wide stretch. So..every day, we'd stand there out of breath, in triumph..and watch everyone else meander their way around the field. Tall, skinny, auburn hair. Freckles everywhere. Smart too. I can't actually remember her hand ever not being raised. I was infatuated. It took every bit of courage I had to walk over to her desk and hand her that card. I held it out, and I told her I loved her. She seemed surprised, but not by what I said..by my very existence. She looked at me like a stranger, half smiled, and said; "That's nice". Then she turned and went back to laughing and talking with her friends.
I was crushed. The first valentines day in my memory was also the first time I felt the humiliation of a public rejection. That's not what I remember most vividly about the day, though...and I don't even remember her name. What stuck with me, for decades now...was the immense relief I felt when I'd finished my little walk of shame, stifling back tears I didn't really comprehend. When I sat down, and turned back to sneak a look her way and saw her still laughing and talking as though nothing at all had happened....I couldn't remember why I'd ever even liked her. It was a non event.
Coincidentally, I never fought for a girl, or over a girl. Never lost a friend to a love triangle. Never begrudged anyone for failing to return my own feelings towards them. I never had another crush. Pubescent drama went entirely missing from my childhood experience....and then my early adulthood. I learned the value..I think, in that instant, of building actual relationships from my failure to do so with her. The silliness and the danger of professing love to someone you didn't know..and who didn't know you. The absurdity of the anonymous suitor. I've been in love and been loved every valentines day since.
As it turns out someone else was was crushed that day, and she'd sat right next to me for as long as I'd been infatuated with whatever her name was. She was my best friend. We'd walked to school every day, together, since kindergarten..and we'd do so all the way through highschool. She lived right across the street..my window faced hers. In the end that didn't work out, we both went our separate ways....but it did give me a deep in to the mind of teenage girls. Which was...useful, at least as an entry into serial monogamy, lol.
So...maybe, give your best friend a valentines day card this year...if you don't have a significant other. Hey, you never know.
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RE: The Biggest Valentine's Day Myths of All Time
February 14, 2018 at 8:53 am
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: The Biggest Valentine's Day Myths of All Time
February 14, 2018 at 3:04 pm
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(February 14, 2018 at 2:34 am)energizer bunny Wrote: When i was young i would hate Valentines Day as it made me feel more lonely. It doesn't bother me anymore. It can be cute i suppose.
Anyways, Happy Single Awareness Day. Why not celebrate being single by treating yourself. To those who face the world alone without a lover and friends. It may seem like the world has forgotten about you or people have given up on you. But don't give up on yourself, your dreams.
Maybe I should go buy myself a frozen yogurt or something. How romantic.
If only I didn't have so much homework LOL
But for real nothing wrong with enjoying your own company.
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RE: The Biggest Valentine's Day Myths of All Time
February 14, 2018 at 3:34 pm
(February 12, 2018 at 10:04 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Can't say Valentine's Day has ever been much of a thing with my peer group or myself.
Off hand, don't recall any parties, cards, boyfriends acknowledging 2/14, nothing really . . .
Funny because yesterday, I took my son out to get some gifts for friends, and a gift for someone on the school bus. 
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RE: The Biggest Valentine's Day Myths of All Time
February 14, 2018 at 8:44 pm
(February 14, 2018 at 3:04 pm)Martian Mermaid Wrote: (February 14, 2018 at 2:34 am)energizer bunny Wrote: When i was young i would hate Valentines Day as it made me feel more lonely. It doesn't bother me anymore. It can be cute i suppose.
Anyways, Happy Single Awareness Day. Why not celebrate being single by treating yourself. To those who face the world alone without a lover and friends. It may seem like the world has forgotten about you or people have given up on you. But don't give up on yourself, your dreams.
Maybe I should go buy myself a frozen yogurt or something. How romantic.
It beats moping around, indulging in self pity.
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RE: The Biggest Valentine's Day Myths of All Time
February 14, 2018 at 8:50 pm
I bought myself some chocolates along with the chocolates I got for my kid.
Romantic? No.
Tasty? Hell, yeah and that's good enough for me.
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