You were better off, Nilly. Then you never had to deal with the inevitable "Your best friend gets flowers from the boy you will love 4EVA while she's sitting next to you in Algebra."
Or something.
OTOH, candy!
Yes, there is. There's a hurry, Xander. I'm dying...I may have as few as fifty years left.
Anya ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lilty Cash - Feb 14, 2005 6:46:20 am PST #7087 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Susan W. - Feb 14, 2005 6:48:12 am PST #7088 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I'd forgotten all about in-school flowers and how completely awful they were.
I think that this has left residual V-Day dislike for me. You spend years with some little hope that something unexpected and extraordinary will happen and it never does.
Yep.
At my school they let florists deliver to the school, it wasn't a fundraiser or anything, and in the last ten minutes before dismissal, they'd summon everyone who'd received a delivery down to pick them up. Which was pretty much just a public announcement of everyone who currently had a boyfriend.
Lyra Jane - Feb 14, 2005 6:51:39 am PST #7089 of 10002
Up with the sun
We did rosegrams on Valentine's in high school, but they were mostly for couples so I never got one.
P. and I did our Fancy Dinner Out for V-Day last night and the reservation was 8:30, so all I saw of the Grammies was the opening medley (Gwen Stefani's outfit was NOT RIGHT, but I loved the suits on the Franz Ferdinand and Maroon 5 boys) and, after we got home, "Across the Universe." I turned it off and went to bed when John Mayer won song of the year -- it probably wasn't the worst song nominated, not with Hooobastank in there, but it still bugs me.
tommyrot - Feb 14, 2005 6:56:30 am PST #7090 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I have a teeny sore throat. I am going off to retreive medicinal hot chocolate.
sarameg - Feb 14, 2005 6:57:45 am PST #7091 of 10002
My school did the carnation-o-gram bit. The tacky bouquet was from an actual florist (or grocery store, I don't recall) and was because I'd been bitching about how much I hated the carnation deal after I'd gotten forced into selling them. I suspect I'd been ranting about it for weeks. So my dear, dear friends decided to torment me more.
bon bon - Feb 14, 2005 6:59:17 am PST #7092 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Today is two years with Bob. Our first date was on V-Day (a bad idea at the time, but makes things awfully efficient now) and his birthday is tomorrow. So I only have to buy one annibirthentines day gift, but I think Bob is getting an iPod.
§ ita § - Feb 14, 2005 7:01:19 am PST #7093 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I only have to buy one annibirthentines day gift
That's just like having a kid near Christmas and combining presents. AKA mean. Buy him three things! I insist upon it.
sarameg - Feb 14, 2005 7:01:48 am PST #7094 of 10002
That is quite efficient!
Which reminds me, I have to go wish someone happy birthday...
Gudanov - Feb 14, 2005 7:04:06 am PST #7095 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
I don't know what our HS did. I never had a girlfriend in HS (lots of asking out, lots of rejection), so the issue never came up.
tommyrot - Feb 14, 2005 7:09:29 am PST #7096 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I asked out maybe three or four girls in HS, none of whom went out with me. But a girl asked me out, and we ended going out together for a year and a half. She originally asked me out to make her boyfriend jealous.
Ahh, high school romance....