Your Valentine's Day Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It...

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seoulsearch

OutWrite Trouble
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Hey Everyone!

As many here know, I'm often prone to taking polls here in the forums... Now good old Valentine's Day is inspiring me to try asking you all to take a poll of the people around you in real life and report back here with your findings.

Here's the challenge: ask the people around you what they're doing for Valentine's Day, then tell us what the answers were.

If you're too shy to talk to the people around you, make it easy on yourself! Ask your parents, siblings, or people you're comfortable with, and use a text or IM if you don't want to ask in person or on the phone.

Now, if hearing about someone else's V-Day with their significant other is going to depress you, by all means, please don't do this. But my whole point of this exercise is that, while I'd be happy to have a Valentine to treat and spend time with, as the years pass, I'm surprised to find... that we may not be missing out on all that much.

Here are the answers I got tonight when I casually asked my co-workers, "Hey, what are you doing for Valentine's Day?"

* "Nothing. Valentine's Day is nothing but commercialized nonsense that tries to get you to spend money."

* "Nothing. I (and/or my significant other) are working/taking care of our kids. (It's just a regular day for us.)"

* "Nothing. Valentine's Day is just too expensive and we don't have the money for a babysitter, fancy dinners, or gifts we really don't need."

* "We might go out to dinner--if we can coordinate the time when we're both not working."

And there you have it... So far. I know so many of us dream of heart-filled days of love and colorful presents on Valentine's Day, but the reality is... We might not be missing out on all that much.

If we were all closer, I personally think it would be cool to throw a big Single's Anti-Valentine's Party. We could decorate with black roses and have an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet. :p

However, I'm happy to report that in my family, romance is still alive and well. My parents have been married a long, long (long) time, and my Dad made a "card" out of a golf score card (he literally tore it into the shape of a heart--apparently, manly men don't use scissors), wrote, "I love you" on it, and left it for my Mom to find on the seat of her car.

Aaawww.

Love is in the air.

So... if you dare, ask a few people what they're doing for Totally Commercialized Obligatory Reminders of Love Day.

I would love to know the answers. :) (Just in case someone gives you an answer that can't be repeated in this forum... Uh... just pretty it up a little bit and say something like, "One person I asked said they were spending some quality time with their spouse.")
 

Tinkerbell725

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Someone answered: no plans yet too busy with work plus we had a fight. My answer: I'm going to an awesome anti valentines party and meet the man of my dreams.
 
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Lost_sheep

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I answered it once in another thread, but I'll repeat it here. I'm going to the gun range to have some quality time with my pistols. I cannot think of a better way to spend Valentine's Day.
 
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I will be detailing my parent's suv and then planning on making spaghetti with ground beef for everyone for dinner.

I already know what everyone else I know is doing... not a whole lot, except maybe my one aunt and uncle who sometimes splurge on nice things.
 
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AsifinPassing

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Jul 13, 2010
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Hey Everyone!

As many here know, I'm often prone to taking polls here in the forums... Now good old Valentine's Day is inspiring me to try asking you all to take a poll of the people around you in real life and report back here with your findings.

Here's the challenge: ask the people around you what they're doing for Valentine's Day, then tell us what the answers were.

If you're too shy to talk to the people around you, make it easy on yourself! Ask your parents, siblings, or people you're comfortable with, and use a text or IM if you don't want to ask in person or on the phone.

Now, if hearing about someone else's V-Day with their significant other is going to depress you, by all means, please don't do this. But my whole point of this exercise is that, while I'd be happy to have a Valentine to treat and spend time with, as the years pass, I'm surprised to find... that we may not be missing out on all that much.

Here are the answers I got tonight when I casually asked my co-workers, "Hey, what are you doing for Valentine's Day?"

* "Nothing. Valentine's Day is nothing but commercialized nonsense that tries to get you to spend money."

* "Nothing. I (and/or my significant other) are working/taking care of our kids. (It's just a regular day for us.)"

* "Nothing. Valentine's Day is just too expensive and we don't have the money for a babysitter, fancy dinners, or gifts we really don't need."

* "We might go out to dinner--if we can coordinate the time when we're both not working."

And there you have it... So far. I know so many of us dream of heart-filled days of love and colorful presents on Valentine's Day, but the reality is... We might not be missing out on all that much.

If we were all closer, I personally think it would be cool to throw a big Single's Anti-Valentine's Party. We could decorate with black roses and have an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet. :p

However, I'm happy to report that in my family, romance is still alive and well. My parents have been married a long, long (long) time, and my Dad made a "card" out of a golf score card (he literally tore it into the shape of a heart--apparently, manly men don't use scissors), wrote, "I love you" on it, and left it for my Mom to find on the seat of her car.

Aaawww.

Love is in the air.

So... if you dare, ask a few people what they're doing for Totally Commercialized Obligatory Reminders of Love Day.

I would love to know the answers. :) (Just in case someone gives you an answer that can't be repeated in this forum... Uh... just pretty it up a little bit and say something like, "One person I asked said they were spending some quality time with their spouse.")
The story about your parents is awesome, and there's a gif I want to post in response to the parenthesis part SOOOOOOO badly, but alas! I shan't...for it is completely inappropriate, though would be contextually, beautifully funny...
 

Lynx

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Fortunately you don't have to wait for my poll. People have already been talking about it and my brain retains a lot of useless information I am not aware of until it spits it back out in response to a cue.

Most claim they are not going out to eat... but the real restaurants (the ones that are not fast-food-factories) will still be very busy. They always are on V-Day. Must be somebody else going out to eat.

Most will buy one of those pre-fab red heart boxes at Wal-Mart. A few are buying it for themselves, for the chocolate.

About three fifths will have a date. The rest are single and will pointedly (and loudly) ignore the day because they are single and have no date.
(By the way I have a bag of sour grapes here if anybody wants a few.)

That's about all I've heard so far, but it's only Saturday yet.
 

JesusLives

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Last year's V-Day...(our first) Nothing nada, I think maybe a card or a note on CC and someone quit smoking for about three months and then started again. So yeah, nothing.

This year the smoker (not me) will be working from 11AM until 8PM so that rules out dinner. But cashed in a reward off a credit card and we will go out to dinner before the week is over to Bone Fish Grill so there will be some good eating.... I am sure we will give each other a BIG KISS and say our I Love You's to each other and we mean it....

My guy does dishes regularly, (puts them in the dishwasher) and puts them away and takes out the trash all the time....those little everyday things that mean so much not just on V-Day.... He's definitely one of the good (God) guys.... (Makes my heart beat and eyes bug out).....for sure......lol

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Tinkerbell725

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Last year's V-Day...(our first) Nothing nada, I think maybe a card or a note on CC and someone quit smoking for about three months and then started again. So yeah, nothing.

This year the smoker (not me) will be working from 11AM until 8PM so that rules out dinner. But cashed in a reward off a credit card and we will go out to dinner before the week is over to Bone Fish Grill so there will be some good eating.... I am sure we will give each other a BIG KISS and say our I Love You's to each other and we mean it....

My guy does dishes regularly, (puts them in the dishwasher) and puts them away and takes out the trash all the time....those little everyday things that mean so much not just on V-Day.... He's definitely one of the good (God) guys.... (Makes my heart beat and eyes bug out).....for sure......lol

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May your smoker conquer his bad habit once and for all. Armed with a strong woman at his side I'm sure he will.

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seoulsearch

OutWrite Trouble
May 23, 2009
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While people are certainly welcome to post what they themselves are doing for Valentine's Day, the real focus of this thread is for all of us to ask those around us what THEY'RE doing for Valentine's Day (especially, but not limited to, those who are part of a couple.)

This is because we so often think (especially when single) that we're missing out on something, but I'm finding that if you talk to other people (and so far, all the people I've talked to all have significant others), they'll tell you that Valentine's Day is just another day or that they're too busy working or too broke to do anything for it anyway, which I think is pretty ironic.

And yes, I think an Anti-Valentine's Singles Mixers would be awesome, though we'd have to find a way to at least acknowledge our friends who are married/attached. :)
 
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"Nothing. Valentine's Day is nothing but commercialized nonsense that tries to get you to spend money."
^smart person
 
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Lost_sheep

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OP, I get what your point of the thread was, but it didn't pan out that way. Me, personally, I couldn't give a flip what people are doing for Valentine's Day. It's none of my business. It's just another day on the calendar anyhow. I don't ask people about their birthdays, or how Christmas went for them, so V-Day is way, way, way down on the list of things involving a person I care about.

"Love stinks, yeah, yeah!"
 
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LittleBit1987

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"Nothing. Valentine's Day is nothing but commercialized nonsense that tries to get you to spend money."
^smart person
Even though, I DID marry this guy.... my husband says the exact same thing about Valentine's Day.... NO joke. lol
 

cinder

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Mar 26, 2014
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Well let's see for my family it appears to be: Go to church, go out to lunch, mom has to buy meatballs as snacks for Bible study which they're hosting that night, and then hosting Bible study. Yeah the sundayness of it is taking precedence over the valentineness of it.
 
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planitsoon

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lol, we just found out that today is Valentine here in Oz an hour ago at 11pm Sunday morning as someone brought it in up the chat room.

Well, we are 20 years married, had five decent fights lasting five minutes in that time and can't see what Valetine is going to add more to our marriage? But then, we suppose it is for people who want to date someone :)

J&N
 
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Siberian_Khatru

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So far: "Nothing." Most of the people I've spoken with are working that day.
 

seoulsearch

OutWrite Trouble
May 23, 2009
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One person I asked today said they were going to dinner, but I found my winner right here (ding ding ding!!):

A very sweet, friendly girl I talked to earlier today said that she and her fiance were going to (some big movie theater an hour away that serves you dinner while you watch the movie.)

And now here's the part that REALLY made me jealous: they were going to see Deadpool.

Seriously. Dinner in the theater, someone to go with, AND Deadpool???!! (What a perfect Valentine's movie, no?) I am officially jealous. If food, companionship, sarcasm and a lot of dead bad guys doesn't say, "Happy Valentine's Day," I'm not sure what does...

(Now taking applications for next Valentine's Day... dinner and some kind of superhero/sci-fi/action movie...) Shoot, if you're available tomorrow, let me know.

Oh drat, I have to work.

And, this isn't a dating site, right??? *grumbles* Oh well... I tried!!!
 
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coby

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Well I have soooooo many friends, being an extrovert.
My Facebook friend posted she's having a Valentine's dinner with her husband. We ate my mom and dad's chocolate Valentine's hearts yesterday. My brother is single. My ex is gonna sleep the whole day he said. Guess he spent the night Skyping with his wife in Brazil since the Dutch government kicked her out to her own country for 3 months.
 

Lynx

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One person I asked today said they were going to dinner, but I found my winner right here (ding ding ding!!):

A very sweet, friendly girl I talked to earlier today said that she and her fiance were going to (some big movie theater an hour away that serves you dinner while you watch the movie.)

And now here's the part that REALLY made me jealous: they were going to see Deadpool.

Seriously. Dinner in the theater, someone to go with, AND Deadpool???!! (What a perfect Valentine's movie, no?) I am officially jealous. If food, companionship, sarcasm and a lot of dead bad guys doesn't say, "Happy Valentine's Day," I'm not sure what does...

(Now taking applications for next Valentine's Day... dinner and some kind of superhero/sci-fi/action movie...) Shoot, if you're available tomorrow, let me know.

Oh drat, I have to work.

And, this isn't a dating site, right??? *grumbles* Oh well... I tried!!!
I'm far away, but at least I can provide something with a lot of action...

 

seoulsearch

OutWrite Trouble
May 23, 2009
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I'm far away, but at least I can provide something with a lot of action...

I was reading this comic and thinking... "But we DO have movies like this... as in, Michael Bay movies... especially since he pretty much shoots the same 90-minute action scene in every movie he makes..."

(He totally ruined my beloved Transformers. And yes, I hold a grudge. :mad:)