Another Greeting Card Company Day

Actually I get it from my mom, she hates Valentines Day. Well, not hates, but she has no use for it. I remember when I was a little kid I'd come home from grade school with all those construction paper hearts with candy hearts either taped, or glued(YuM!) to them. I'd ask my mom what dad was getting her and she'd tell me how Valentines day was just a day made up by the greeting card companies to sell more cards at a time when there was no other holiday. Now just to put things in perspective, my mom just turned 70 this year, so there's a bit of a generation gap between us, two really.

But that's not the point of all this actually. That was just to explain why I don't really care about V-Day. The point is, OMFG, we suck! Every year we do decorations for the different holidays, Halloween, Christmas, anything we can get away with, U-City has some weird rules about window decorations. This year, as usual we did some decorating for V-Day, nothing too fancy, kind of a low key thing that works on a subconcious level. We've had it up for a bout a week, which I said was too early, but I don't really get a vote as I thought it should go up the day before and come down the day after.

A couple of weeks ago, I come in and the guys next door at Rag-O-Rama are putting their display up. They got the manequins dressed in pinks, whites, and reds, some with angel wings, all kinds of eye catching stuff. Nice. Later I go out to grab a coffee from down the street and they have the whole thing done. There's red and white feathered boas for streamers, heart shaped lights, roses, red and silver wrapped presents, the whole nine yards! And I look over at our window and all I can think is, DAMMIT! So Rag-O-Rama, I'm putting you on notice right now. Next year, it's ON! I am going to embrace the spirit of Valentines Day to fullest and kick your @$$#$ up and down Delmar! Oh, and just you wait till the Fourth of July. You'll see.


Yeah, I'm not bitter. No way. But after thinking about it for a couple of days, this is what I have to say:

Dan