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\u201cHappy Valentine\u2019s Day, Honey.\u201d I said to Linda when we awoke from our slumber this morning. \u201cHappy Valentine\u2019s Day to you too,\u201d she replied. This was followed by a shared, \u201cI love you\u201d and that was it.<\/p>\n
We decided long ago not to be slaves to this manufactured holiday created by florists, greeting card companies and candy makers hell bent on making us (mostly men) feel guilty about ourselves if we don\u2019t express affection with a gift they are only too happy to provide..for an exorbitant fee..<\/p>\n
This wasn\u2019t just me being cheap. It was a well thought out and mutually agreed upon decision based on sound reasoning; flowers quickly wilt, candy is too fattening and cards are tossed into the trash after a day or so: a waste of good money.<\/p>\n
Our mutual adoration is eternal. We certainly don\u2019t need any commercially construed reminders to do what comes naturally. It is a policy we\u2019ve followed for years and are perfectly content with. Or so I thought. As I was pouring my second cup of coffee, Linda came into the kitchen carrying a musical Valentine\u2019s Day card that was playing \u201cLove Will Keep Us Together\u201d by Captain and Tenille. \u00a0\u201cRemember you got me this last year?\u201d she said smiling. Uh Oh. I must have forgotten and violated the pact. I could still hear that song ringing in my ears as I left for HyVee to pick up a few groceries. Standing in the check out line I noticed another line. This one made up exclusively of blue collar guys with \u00a0empty looks on their faces mulling around \u00a0the floral department trying to come up with something to make up\u00a0 for their lameness at having forgotten what day it was and hoping they can spend their way back into their significant others\u2019 good graces\u00a0with a big bunch of well picked over roses.<\/p>\n
Geeze..she saved that card for a whole year, I thought to myself as the cashier was ringing up my total. Maybe I better walk over and see if there are any decent flowers left\u2026but no, that would look contrived wouldn\u2019t it? \u00a0Aren\u2019t supermarket roses an act of desperation?<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s wishing you all a very nice Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cHappy Valentine\u2019s Day, Honey.\u201d I said to Linda when we awoke from our slumber this morning. \u201cHappy Valentine\u2019s Day to you too,\u201d she replied. This was followed by a shared, \u201cI love you\u201d and that was it. We decided long ago not to be slaves to this manufactured holiday created by florists, greeting card companies…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lund-at-large","category-60","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11734,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions\/11734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}