14 Reasons Why Feb 14 Sucks, And How You’re Better Off At Home With Pizza
It’s always polemic with Valentine’s Day. There are those who religiously wait for the “holiday” to arrive and spend all of their time planning their gifts, outings and activities, and there are also those who talk of how it’s a “Hallmark Holiday” invented to sell giant teddies and cards.
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While we’re not here to bash Valentine’s Day (we like the sentiment), here are some reasons why folks out there are growing more and more disillusioned with February 14th.
1. If you like going out with your boyfriend or girlfriend, you can do it any other day without having to pay 2000 rupees per meal, or waiting in line for hours.
2. Most girls (and some guys) love getting their roses on Valentine’s, except after they come to find out how much they cost, they’d rather you had bought them something that will last, I dunno,more than three days.
3. You don’t even get a bloody day off!
4. You’re reminded of how astonishingly lonely your single self is.
5. It serves to create more rifts between you and your SO that it does any actual good. Comparing gifts, “didn’t get gift,” pendant wasn’t big enough blah blah…
6. So you end up giving gifts to your SO out of an obligation, even though you know the entire thing is a marketing gimmick.
7. It makes public places extremely annoying to be in, even though you’re not overly sanskaari.
8. The societal pressure to not only be in a relationship, but in a seemingly loving and joyous one is immense.
9. For those in notsorosy relationships, that means being envied and eyed by singletons when you step out, while you would happily swap places with them.
10. The million creepy “stags” on the prowl at every major intersection.
11. Evading the goons (an adventure in itself in a free country).
12. All the complaining about Valentine’s Day can be a real drag.
13. Upstanding members of Sanskaari society could “marry” the two of you if they catch you canoodling – but it’s okay if it’s your sister.
14. February 14 could also be the day that you went out for a stroll in the local park with your girlfriend, only to find yourself – in a bizarre and unfortunate twist of fate – forcibly married to a cow, because it’s clearly the right way to refute the polluted morals of western society.
Yeah, we’ll just stay in and get Dominos.
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