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The easiest day to get in trouble

23.05.13

I’m not a big fan of Valentine’s Day. Why? Because it tends to set men up for the big fall; kind of like a curveball that drops 6 inches in the strike zone and leaves a hitter flapping at air.

Then again, it’s really all about the shopping part of it, isn’t it? Because the odds of you buying your wife or girlfriend the right gift (or hitting the bullseye on that one) are at least 1 million-to-1 since, not only do you not know what they really want, but neither do they.

Of course, I’m a horrid attention deficit shopper anyway. Plus God apparently intended for me to be independently wealthy, with servants to do it for me or why would he have given me absolutely no abilities in this area? Not that I am the only male who is cursed with this deficit.

In fact, marriage and love probably would have been outlawed long ago were it not for Charles II of Sweden who introduced the tradition of “flower writing” in Europe way back in the 18th century. You see, that’s when they started giving their special someone flowers on those momentous occasions as a non-verbal declaration of love, and it’s those roses today that are keeping many a husband and boyfriend from having to walk the “Divorce or Dear John Letter” gangplank.

Source: Dickinson Press