I hate Valentine’s Day

I know this a bit premature but I thought that I should get my rant out early this year. 'What is she on about this time?' I hear you ask, well if you look towards the title that may give you a clue.

 I can accurately estimate the number of cards that I will receive this year and that is zero, the same as most every year. 

Except from the rare occasion when a friend or my mother gave me one out of sympathy (a Valentine's card that is not a deepest sympathy one, although the latter may have been more relevant.) 

Now before all you loved up couples start shouting abuse at me that the whole point of Valentine’s Day is love and showing your boyfriend/girlfriend/wife/husband/partner/fiancée/mistress/gay lover/friend with benefits or significant other that you appreciate them let me just say that I’ll be the first to admit that I am a soppy romantic at heart but I resent the fact that there is one day when you are expected to shower your significant other (if you have one) with gifts and affection. 

If you really are in a loving relationship you already do this every day and one day in which society insists that you should be sappy and romantic is not just patronising but also terribly communist (as in people telling what you should do.)

V-day has been horribly commercialised and you are often frowned upon if you spend less than half your yearly salary on that one day. If you have ever tried going for dinner on’ that day that will not be named’ it is astronomically expensive sometimes even more so than Christmas! 

Valentine's day should really just be renamed singles' awareness day because I'm sure that that is the only thing that V-day achieves, making singletons everywhere feel inferior and boosting the sales of tubs of ice cream. Ben and Jerry’s is my tub of choice (I like most flavours) if anyone wants to get me one.  Couples often take it upon themselves to stare at you like you have two heads as you walk around on your todd, like it’s a sin to be alone. Well look at how much money I saved myself in not having to buy meaningless presents.

The observant among may remember (or you may not I did say it at the beginning of this post and that was quite some time ago) that I was quite forlorn that I don’t get any cards, if I hate Valentine’s day so much why should I care? 

My dear friends and strangers alike, I would like refer to a popular film reference. In ‘Mean Girls’ an iconic character whom we never actually see (well if you don’t count the back of his head)  or even has any lines is made into a legend when they receive 4 candy canes “You Go Glen Coco” and then there are “none for Gretchen Wieners”   

Well guess who feels like Gretchen Wieners when the Glen Coco’s of the world receive post and flowers and chocolates and candlelit dinners on that silly day. You may just think that I am bitter and that I would feel differently when I am in a loving relationship (although the question should probably be ‘if’ not ‘when’) but then shouldn’t Valentine’s day be everyday not just once a year?