I’ve always smirked about people abreviating it VD. Yep it may be a VD day.
My husband bought me a nice (not diamond) necklace last year. Although it was quite beautiful, I must have had a little “am I in an alternate universe?!” look when I was telling him that it was lovely and thanking him - as I do not want jewelry, ever, and being married to me for nearly 10 years, he knows this full well. I got the explanation - apparently some of his coworkers had been on a mission to browbeat him out of our usual, mutually-agreed upon “we don’t really do stuff for Valentine’s Day because we don’t think it’s a big deal” plans. They harangued him on and off until he told them to STFU, but by then he was really doubting if he was being a bad husband, and he decided that he would get something that he at least knew would be to my limited taste. I’ve worn it about a half-dozen times in the last year and that’s a record for me with most jewelry (other than my “promise” ring before our relationship became long-distance, many years ago, and of course my engagement and wedding rings).
I told him this year that if they tried a repeat performance, he could tell them that I personally said they could go fuck themselves. Apparently of the two main instigators, one was a very “high maintenance” woman, the other was a male friend of his who has a wife with extremely high expectationts/demands for Valentine’s Day.
This year was back to our happy usual plan - no cards, no flowers, no gifts, just some takeout Chinese food, a bottle of wine, and playing video games together.
I think something in him shriveled and died, when he put it on.
The only thing with hearts in or on it I would like is an anatomy book. Just sayin’.
Hilarious! 
I got my wife a black cats-eye and silver necklace this year. Her response was pretty underwhelming. We’ve been pretty busy lately and i had to scramble to find something, so her reaction was pretty disappointing. I got a… dancing frog thing. Funny for about 10 seconds.
Sounds to me like you went above and beyond the call of duty, krisolov.
I got the worst gift ever this year. I got stood up.
We have a standing lunch date every Wednesday. Being students, sometimes we get busy and won’t see each other for a while, and this ensures some time together each week. We’ve been doing this for the last 6 months. Yesterday he forgot, left me standing around feeling like a fool for about half an hour. Since he can never remember to turn his effing cell phone on, I didn’t hear from him until SIX HOURS LATER. And even then, he didn’t call me to apologize; I called him and his phone was finally on.
Dump him. He isn’t that into you.
Fox News has an article on the worst gifts you can get your girlfriend for Valentine’s Day. The surprising part? They list naming a star after her as a bad gift, because it’s a scam. Only 19 years after the Master wrote that naming a star after someone is a scam, but maybe we’re making some headway on fighting ignorance after all.
A Hallmark Hug-a-Bunch animal for a guy. That commercial where he is outside the girl’s apartment and hears a French guy inside wooing…he goes in and it’s a talking plush tiger and it’s for the guy :smack: Leave your nuts at the door.