[Kinky]

Same with me. It's a contrived "holiday". I've never liked receiving roses and candy because a guy felt he HAD to. I liked the Valentine's Day cards we used to give to one another in grade school though.

[Larry Lucido]

Welcome to FR.

I like your screen name.

[k2blader]

I hear you. A few years back I had been going through my place trying to clean things out when I came across a little stack of elementary school Valentine's cards I had kept for some reason. Reading them with "older eyes" it struck me how although the cards themselves were pretty sappy, the way they were signed held such a sense of childlike love and innocence. Needless to say, instead of putting them in the trash pile, I decided to hold onto them a little longer. :-)

[TAdams8591]

I made exactly ALL the same points you made in your post.

Valentine's Day IS contrived and has never been a big deal to me. But in grade school, I used to love to count all the valentines I received. THAT was FUN!~

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

That anecdote certainly doesn't live up to your screen name.

:)

-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)