# Single on Valentine's Day: what will you be doing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 10, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879 "2006-02-10T17:24:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879/1 "2006-02-10T17:24:01Z")
It’s a Tuesday, so I’ll have classes and all that, but afterwards I’m probably going to pick up a pint of chocolate chunk ice cream and watch _Love Actually_, or whatever other movie occurs to me. How about you? ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879/2 "2006-02-10T17:27:27Z")
I’ll probably do what I do every Tuesday: spend most of the day in classes and most of the night doing work for the classes on Wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879/3 "2006-02-10T17:27:58Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > It’s a Tuesday, so I’ll have classes and all that, but afterwards I’m probably going to pick up a pint of chocolate chunk ice cream and watch _Love Actually_, or whatever other movie occurs to me. > > How about you? Gonna be at the bowling alley. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879/4 "2006-02-10T17:47:54Z")
Sleeping, reading, watching TV. Same thing as every day, Pinky. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879/5 "2006-02-10T17:59:56Z")
Tuesday … well, I usually watch _NCIS_. Maybe I’ll do so while drowning my sorrows in ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879/6 "2006-02-10T18:09:46Z")
Same thing as any other Tuesday, I guess. Reading, movies, the boob tube, or online games – whichever strikes me as most entertaining. If it weren’t for all the ads, I wouldn’t even have remembered Valentine’s Day this year. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879/7 "2006-02-10T18:20:37Z")
Normally I would treat it like any other day, drinking a beer with the fuzzie monster kitties. I’m going to the new Cirque du Soleil show [Delirium](http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/CirqueDuSoleil/en/showstickets/delirium/about_intro.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879/8 "2006-02-10T18:31:22Z")
Um… the 14th is next Tuesday, isn’t it? :: checks calendar, nods :: I’ll be going to work, then going to the gym, then coming home and working on my webpages or art portfolio. Nothing special. Except I may call my best friends and wish them happy anniversary. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879/9 "2006-02-10T18:36:32Z")
Ironically enough, I have a date. Though I didn’t plan it that way. I went on a date last Sunday, and we agreed to meet again on ‘Tuesday’. I thought she was talking about Tuesday the 7th, but apparently she meant the next Tuesday. Maybe she subtly went out of her way to ‘change’ the Tuesday so it fell on Valentine’s day (wishful thinking). So, yeah. I’m spending Valentine’s offering up a romantic gesture of eighteen holes of minature golf. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JustAnotherGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@JustAnotherGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustAnotherGeek)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879/10 "2006-02-10T19:09:05Z")
Idunno. Maybe watching some boob tube. Maybe hittin on the Night Elf Girls over on Eonar. 😃 “Hey Baby, I’m not immortal anymore. I don’t have all night!” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879/11 "2006-02-10T19:18:44Z")
Gum surgery in the morning, a job interview in the afternoon. Do I know how to have a good time or what? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879/12 "2006-02-10T19:27:04Z")
Appointment to have my taxes done. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879/13 "2006-02-10T20:04:27Z")
Spending some quality time with my computer and a bottle of beer. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879/14 "2006-02-10T20:17:36Z")
My personal Single On Valentine’s Day Adventure will begin by accompanying my friend to court, after which he’ll probably go to jail. I will then spend the rest of the day working on my Ranma Saotome costume in preparation for Katsucon the weekend of the 17th. Fun stuff. Incidentally, if anybody has any earthly notion where I can get a shiny red Chinese-style shirt and black clip-on queue, please advise. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879/15 "2006-02-10T20:23:45Z")
Going to class, doing homework, weight lifting, and if I have any free time, play No One Lives Forever 2(Which has nothing to do with the day, I just want to replay it). ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879/16 "2006-02-10T20:34:55Z")
I’ll be working on a show that day for a few hours, then I’ll come home and watch Olympics coverage on CBC. At 10pm I’ll watch Gilmore Girls. Fun stuff. ---
**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 10, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879/17 "2006-02-10T20:47:48Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > I’ll probably do what I do every Tuesday: You missed the perfect opportunity to follow up with \“Try to take over the world!”\ Oh well…you’ve probably figured out I don’t have a date. I think I have to work seriously late on Tuesday, so it’ll probably finish up with a glass of Jameson 1780 and finishing off one of the several open books I have going. I’m going to try to avoid the “watching _Casablanca_ and falling into a self-pitying stupor” event this year. Maybe I’ll pick up _Better Off Dead_ if I get out of work early. [post=298858]This[/post] is what happens when I try to go out on Valentine’s Day. All that pressure, and me not really up on my thermofluid mechanics. _shish-bah_ Yeah, like I said, you’ve already figured out why I have no date. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879/18 "2006-02-10T21:05:43Z")
I’m jumping on a plane and flying off to Yemen. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879/19 "2006-02-10T21:10:37Z")
> [@Tapioca Dextrin](#): > > I’m jumping on a plane and flying off to Yemen. Don’t you think you might be overreacting just a little? ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879/20 "2006-02-11T02:08:52Z")
Nothing! This is the first Valentine’s Day that I’ve been “single” since '01, and it feels great. I’ve never understood why it’s so upseting for some people to be without an SO on another “Hallmark” day. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-on-valentines-day-what-will-you-be-doing/343879.md?page=2)