Hello,
As anyone who has had the misfortune to glance at a card shop recently will be aware tomorrow is Valentines Day. I was chatting about this with a colleague in work today who asked me if I was expecting to get anything. Oh how I laughed! It then occurred to me that I haven't received so much as a card for fifteen years. I should point out that I have been in a relationship for almost eight of those years. Is a fifteen year card drought some sort of record? Now I think of it I have never once received a Valentines gift. Surely that must be a record?
I should probably point out that I haven't sent any cards either. I made that mistake in 1987 and have been careful to avoid repeating the error. It was an awful experience. I somewhat foolishly sent a card via the school delivery service to a boy in another class. In what I now realise was a delusional episode I thought he would at least have been flattered. He was not at all pleased to say the least. He was so upset he had to be sent home from school. Nothing in my short life prepared me for being considered so repulsive that receiving a Valentine card from me could provoke illness. It was the talk of first year for months. Utterly mortifying.
I need hardly say this is a very difficult time of year for me.
Cheerio
8 comments:
Never had one, never sent one. Hideous and phony little celebration.
Yeah right! If you got one you'd be strutting.
No, i'd be wondering who was taking the piss..........
Sent you some blog nominations btw.
Ill Man, this is only a theory but have you considered that having such a negative outlook might be making your life harder than need be.
Yes.
"I made that mistake in 1987 and have been careful to avoid repeating the error. It was an awful experience. I somewhat foolishly sent a card via the school delivery service to a boy in another class.......He was so upset he had to be sent home from school.
Bloody blinkin nora! How can receving a valentines card result in someone being sent home from ruudy school!?!
"wan plus wan is......uh no please miss, I just cannae go oan, no efter gittn that kerd!"
"aye away hame wi ye son, ah dunno, whits the warld cumin tae, in awe ma years o teachin I've nivir saw anyhing like it, puir wee laddie, wull he evir git ower the trauma?"
I believe the teachers exact response was 'get out nancy boy'. The male teachers at my school were obsessed with 'nancy boys', any boy who had a day off sick was immediatley suspect. Likewise any boy who was crap at P.E.
Thats a right miserable person with
whom you're having the relationship,not even a token gift in 8 years ?
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