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Who needs this Valentine’s Day nonsense?
Friday 12th February 2010, 6:47AM GMT.
There isn’t really a Valentines Day equivalent to “bah humbug” as far as I can tell, writes Dan Wainwright.
I’m afraid I’m one of those annoying old cynics who subscribes to the view that it’s all about Clinton’s trying to flog a few cards.
It’s always baffled me that so many people go for it each year given that it is surely the most divisive and depressing of celebration days.
If you’re single and don’t have your eye on anyone, it’s just a solemn reminder that you are alone in the universe.
If you are in a couple then it’s surely completely redundant. If I only spent one day a year telling my other half that she’s special to me then I’d rightly be in among the singletons, sat at home eating reheated baked beans in my pants.
There are of course plenty of couples who dutifully book the restaurant, get dressed up and head into town where they end up sat among all the others who did exactly the same thing and don’t really know why.
Really the only people Valentine’s Day truly applies to are those people who, having pined for the apple of their eye for so long, have finally plucked up the courage to tell them so – anonymously.
Even children have it tough. When you’re at primary school the last thing you want as an eight year old boy is a card off your mate’s six-year-old sister, signed in crayon. It ends up sat there in your desk buried under an old sandwich in the hope that it will start to decompose before the end of term when everything gets taken home in a bag for your mum to see.
Then there comes that point, somewhere around the age of 12, where not getting any cards becomes an even bigger disaster. Teenagers have enough body image issues without the harrowing experience of watching their classmates flaunt their hormones like a pair of Nike trainers. They must be thanking their stars that Valentines Day falls on a half term holiday this year.
Personally I can leave it. But don’t let me stop you.
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