Valentines schmalentines

Ugh... thank you very much WLFG for the reminder that Valentines Day is just around the corner. I hate Valentines Day and like WLFG, not because of the over commercialised nonsense but because I've never had a good one, a special one. I read her post going uh huh... uh huh... insert different boys names and different book titles and that's me too.

Although I can go you one better and insert:

1994: Go out on the town with friends who are boys (one of which I like a lot) and one skanky ho hanger-on biatch and get a bit pissy on a coupla glasses of champagne. Hours later, and after having no drinks for those hours, I'm pinged the designated driver as the driver is lying in the middle of the sidewalk drunk as a skunk. Cool, I thought I'd sobered up... Keys in hand, I hop into a muscle car I've never driven and that has a touchy first gear and whammo fly into a parked taxi. No one was hurt and (not so) funnily enough the original driver was that drunk that he didn't even wake up from his backseat slumber and was woken up by the cops once they'd turned up.

The result: 1 x $600 ticket for driving without a current licence (mine had expired 2 weeks prior to the event and I hadn't bothered renewing it yet), 1 x $800 ticket for driving under the influence (over the limit by .00001), 1 x $8000 lawsuit from the taxi company for damages to their car because the owner of the car I was driving didn't have insurance and I was liable, 1 x $3500 almost lawsuit from the driver of the car for damages to his car (ie it was a write off). Total cost = $12,900. Pretty expensive Valentine eh? I managed to settle everything out of court and for a fraction of the cost but still...

1995: Get first thing ever, a bunch of roses, from a guy I'm totally into but we're not officially going out. So totally over the moon I forgive him when he has to leave early. Ala WLFG... perhaps that was a sign.

1996: Now officially going out with totally scrummy guy from last year and he declares that he doesn't believe in Valentines and I get squat. I had left him little heart shaped chocolates next to his bed and didn't see him for the rest of the day. Found out later that he was two timing me all along and probably only gave me the roses the year before to get into my pants. Yep a sign.

2001: In a sorta relationship with a guy and on Valentines day he tells me that he's been sleeping with his ex wife as well as me and that I was starting to freak him out since I was actually starting to feel something emotionally for him rather than just sexually as it had all started out. Great. thanks very much. see you later.

2006: Get a huge, beautiful bunch of flowers! Get huge, beautiful bunch of flowers meant for Chip from her psycho ex boyfriend because she doesn't want them and can't stand to look at them. yay. I did send a secret admirer valentine to Benji. felt pathetic but did it anyway.

2007: Am hoping that Benji comes to the ultimate realisation that he's madly in love with me and can't keep it a secret any longer and just has to profess his love in the most romantic way imaginable.

Say no more.