# Happy Valentine's Day, how about a divorce? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 14, 2007, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-valentines-day-how-about-a-divorce/392188 "2007-02-14T13:37:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-valentines-day-how-about-a-divorce/392188/1 "2007-02-14T13:37:17Z")
I just heard the most incredible commercial on the radio. It was on a news radio AM station, here in Chicago. **She** : But you SAID you’d divorce your wife this year!!! **He** : But a divorce is so tedious and cumbersome and takes so much time… (wah wah). **Announcer** : Looking forward to yet another Valentine’s Day in a marriage that’s not working any more? Did you know that if you can both agree on the terms, that you can obtain a divorce in Illinois in as little as ten days…? It then goes on about how easy an uncontested divorce is, how cheap and simple it can be, and heck, it’s VALENTINE’S DAY, treat yourself! Ok, that last part is implied. :eek: I said… :eek: It might be a milestone really, a divorce lawyer advertising at Valentine’s Day. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-valentines-day-how-about-a-divorce/392188/2 "2007-02-14T14:00:34Z")
And yet another advertising opportunity is taken up. Just like that. “It’s Valentine’s Day – treat yourself”? Le sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-valentines-day-how-about-a-divorce/392188/3 "2007-02-14T14:11:02Z")
But, but, but… it’s not like the reasons that cowturd in the ad gives for not divorcing the wife are the ones he actually has. The State of Illinois can’t legislate pricks out of existence. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-valentines-day-how-about-a-divorce/392188/4 "2007-02-14T16:31:41Z")
Her: “So what did you get me for Valentine’s Day this year?” Him: “I decided to get you something you’ve always wanted…” Her: “You mean a divorce?!?” Him: “No, I didn’t want to spend that much on you.” ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-valentines-day-how-about-a-divorce/392188/5 "2007-02-14T16:37:46Z")
[QUOTE=Lightnin’] Her: “So what did you get me for Valentine’s Day this year?” Him: “I decided to get you something you’ve always wanted…” Her: “You mean a divorce?!?” Him: “No, I didn’t want to spend that much on you.” [/QUOTE] … Her mom: “He went to Jared!” ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-valentines-day-how-about-a-divorce/392188/6 "2007-02-14T16:47:58Z")
Holy crap, **MBG** , I feared for a moment you were talking about \*your \*marriage. I’m glad to hear it was just a silly ad! ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-valentines-day-how-about-a-divorce/392188/7 "2007-02-14T17:45:24Z")
[QUOTE=Nava] The State of Illinois can’t legislate pricks out of existence. [/QUOTE] Um … I assume you mean guys who act bad, right? 'Cuz that other meaning … well, that would just be bad for some of us. I couldn’t ever go to Chicago again. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-valentines-day-how-about-a-divorce/392188/8 "2007-02-14T18:05:30Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Holy crap, **MBG** , I feared for a moment you were talking about \*your \*marriage. I’m glad to hear it was just a silly ad! [/QUOTE] Thanks but she’ll never divorce me. One day, I’ll just disappear from here, and you’ll read about pieces of an old bald guy washing up in the Fox River… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-valentines-day-how-about-a-divorce/392188/9 "2007-02-14T19:02:54Z")
[QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy] It might be a milestone really, a divorce lawyer advertising at Valentine’s Day. [/QUOTE] Nah, just another day in the sewer. Lawyers who need to advertise on radio and the back of buses to get business are just slightly more complex organisms than _Cyanobacteria_ and less pleasant to touch. Besides, what could be a more romantic present than your married lover getting a divorce so he can marry you? And it’s the gift that keeps on giving; when your matrimony goes sour and he starts sleeping with someone else, you’ll get the gift again! It’s like two presents for the price of one! “There is no winning! Only degrees of losing!” – Gavin D’Amato, _[The War of the Roses](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098621/)_ Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-valentines-day-how-about-a-divorce/392188/10 "2007-02-14T19:05:26Z")
Heh. Was just reminsicing on another board that the nearest I got to a Valentine’s card from a secret admirer was the one an SO had delivered to me _intending_ that I should think it was. See, she was looking to break it off but didn’t want to actually go ahead and do it (odd, it would have made around the eighth time and she’d managed it OK before), so she hoped I’d end up chatting up lots of women while trying to find out who’d sent it to me. No, I don’t quite understand it either. 😕 Fortunately I managed to negotiate the delicate process of finding out if my female boss had suddenly developed a hitherto unheralded interest in me with a minimum of embarrassment to all, and I got surprisingly little ribbing over the notice I tacked up in the lift, so it could have been a lot worse all round.