I thought that for holidays it has to be the day after as there could be the last-minute buyer. For Halloween, people could run out of candy during the night and maybe care enough to go buy it (but the rest just go "Out of Candy" or turn off their lights, maybe because they've given away enough money through the candy, if not just for the laziness factor).

After all, a guy could go buy the chocolate from the store the morning of Valentine's Day (because he forgot) and his girlfriend might never know. ;)

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Haha, I suppose the florist needs to ring in extra money that day. ;) But as much as it seems mean, they are obviously taking advantage of supply and demand. This was all 3 florists? I suppose there aren't any other holidays that demand being given flowers except Mother's Day. Christmas has a specific flower and many of the other holidays off the top of my head--Halloween, Thanksgiving, Father's Day (though it's "barely" a holiday, due to no day off), Easter--don't require flowers or there are ways around using it.

But the flowers shouldn't die within 24 hours unless they weren't treated very well (i.e. not put in water and left to freeze). Or maybe a really crappy florist. But I've heard the quality for red roses goes down due to demand for them for Valentine's.

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Oh yeah, for my Valentine's Day it was pretty fun. It didn't even require a boyfriend and I'm straight. ;)

I ended up cooking with several women and then split what we had cooked. The people in charge ended up giving us lots of chocolate and other sugary goodies.

The thing is I didn't even feel thethat it was Valentine's Day when I woke up that morning and it wasn't that I had forgotten it was Valentine's Day that I've had other years.

I wonder if Valentine's Day is harder on single guys or single girls? I would've thought it would be harder on the girls, since it's okay for a guy not to be alone. But the replies say otherwise. I suppose guys can't hang out with each other on such a sentimental day without it being a bit...awkward. ^^; It sounds like a shounen ai or yaoi premise, maybe?

Concerning flowers and a woman who was allergic to them:

http://64.18.160.222/ElleCanada/clien t/en/forum/Forums.aspx?mg_forum_control=forum_posts&catego ry_id=16&thread_id=255

RE: Your most romantic Valentine's Day
Posted: 1/14/2007 1:42:10 PM
Here's my story:

For several years, my work mates would receive flowers from their significant others on Valentine's Day. Each year would go by and I would longingly watch their happy faces. Each time there was a knock on the door, my heart would stop and I would look up expectedly to see yet another bouquet of luscious roses handed over to a colleague; someone else again. I would stare down at my work and gulp back my disappointment and frustration.

Why couldn't my husband just once think to send me flowers, I would wonder in the sheer agony of embarrassment. I know that I am allergic but I could put up with it for just one day if only to see the shocked expressions on my co workers faces. It would be much better than the tried and true pittied expressions and quiet pats on the shoulder telling me 'maybe next year.' Ooh the smugness of it all. Men do not understand what other women can do to each other with their so called sympathies.

Well, I went home on Valentine's Day four years ago to the same oblivion that my husband was comfortable wallowing in. I did what I always do. I mentioned the flowers and all the romantic fluff that went with it in hopes that my husband had a bunch of roses hidden up his sleeve in preparation for the momentus event that is Valentines. Wrong. Houdini was off for the night. My husband said that he thought that the ladies were lucky and didn't mention it again for the rest of the night. Tears stung my eyes for days as I replayed the scene over and over again in my head. I'm sure that he was an ogre by the time the end of the week came.

Much to my surprise on Friday, my husband picked me up early from work with no kids and a packed suitcase. My friends from work were full of questions when he showed up. My husband was not prepared to answer any of them and I of course, didn't know what to say as I was shocked into silence.

My darling husband had decided to do Valentine's all the way. He said that if you do it, you gotta do it right. He said this on the way. The way to Paris - the City of Love. I don't mind not getting flowers like the others at work on Valentine's anymore because I know that my hubby has the market cornered on romance.

And although this isn't Valentine's Day-related really, I thought I'd include this story:

http://www.dumpcupid.com/stories.jsp?week=5&story=2

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Cecilia and I had been really good friends for 4 yrs. Then we started dating. Two weeks later her family decided to pack up and move to Reno. So the day she leaves is her 16th birthday and I gave her a platinum ring w/ a tanzanite stone ($623). I tell her that I can wait. She says the same. A week later I find she blocked me on her online profile and left a note that says she never planed on waiting: she just liked the ring!

(Pretty lousy way to be dumped huh? Well I hope that relationship karma serves her a nice payback. XD)

*gets her neck wrung for all the long posts*

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I don't really care about my username, i made it like that because it's my name online. If people want to confuse me for a female i really don't care! i know i'm not and that is all that matters. People online can lie about anything there age or sex or anything and unless you know somone in real life then no one will ever know the truth.

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All I can say... he got what he deserved for beeing such an idiot!
She got what she deserved, she can consider that ring as a payment for teaching a valuable life lesson.
lol...
But seriously, he was an idiot.

Ouch.... HaHaHa! ........ no.. no man that was harsh.

thats a really cruel thing to do...
how could that girl keep something from the guy without it reminding her of her betrayal... (should feel guilty just looking at the thing)

poor guy =/

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Well if the guy was 16 too, I suppose he was head over heels in love with her. I think people that young will make mistakes and maybe better to make one like this early on. I suppose we can't expect that you'd be that crazy about love, huh? ^^; *wonders if Stealth would do something this mean to a person, that he's known for 4 years*

Oh wait, you have a girlfriend from what you told us about Valentine's Day. I wonder if you trust her as much as did guy did. And maybe even if you've been dumped like that. ^^; I don't know how you really believe the girl got "what she deserved", but that may be due to a difference in opinion. The way she betrayed him (according to the story), she did not deserve that ring (although it was a present) and she just tells him, then runs and hides (behind the internet no less!). But maybe she got paid back for the lousy things she did to ensure she kept the ring in another relationship. (Okay, personal taste because I don't think other people should get away with treating people like dirt, at least not ALL the time. She might attact someone like her, in a bad way.)

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I might sound like I'm evil and might do that kind of stuff. But I'm not the kind that would stab someone in the back... I'd rather stab them in the face if I have to.
So no I wouldn't do that kind of thing to someone, and I wouldn't probably treat someone I knew for 4 years that way either.

But I'm the cautious kind, I don't trust people. Life thaugh me to not trust anyone. At least not to a certain extent. I can place some trust, but I wouldn't place my life in the hands of anyone. If I did and they messed up, the only one I could blame would be me, not them. When you trust someone and they mess up it's your responsability for trusting someone who isn't worthy, and beeing unable to judge people correctly.

Of couse I'm not saying that the one that betrays is a saint. But for me, the one I blame is the idiot. The other one is up to god or karma or whatever you beleive in. And if he gets away with it, cool for him. (But if I was betrayed, I wouldn't leave my revenge to anyone either, I'll do it myself).

And about that girlfriend thing.... lool... I said my girlfriend was named mechanics!
That's no girls name, that's one of my classes. I had an exam on valentines day, and was to busy preparing for that exam for almost the entire week before. So, no girlfriend for me... (Maybe my bad karma? lol)

LOL to that Stealth, but I like that about you.

But anyways - since Valentine's Day is my hubby's b-day I NEVER get anything from him...for the past TEN YEARS!!! But, this year I got a card and it made me cry that he remembered me.



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Uh, is that your daughter? ;)

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Buahahhahahha! That's ridiculous! Preposterous! No one would post a picture of their own child on the Internet!

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But I've seen it done.

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those are just parents who don't understand the true horror of internet......

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Or maybe they do because the majority aren't really that screwed up...most of the time. ;)

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