If you need a good laugh this Valentine’s Day, I recommend you read I Wish I’d Spent Valentine’s Day Eating A Prix Fixe Dinner, But I Was Too Busy Getting Beheaded.
Just a little peek at the aforementioned article from The Onion:
Is it Valentine’s Day already? My word! How the time does fly. I might have missed the day entirely had I not caught a glimpse of all the young couples walking hand in hand this evening, filling the tables of every fancy French restaurant in town. And what better way to celebrate this fine holiday than sharing a scrumptious, fixed price, three-course menu with your beloved? Lord knows that’s what I’d be doing tonight if my head hadn’t been severed from my body in the third century!
The article made me feel better about flying solo this V-Day. Of course, I’d be all set if I lived in South Korea, where I could just celebrate Black Day on April 14 and eat noodles with black bean sauce with a whole bunch of other single folks. Yep, people who got screwed on Valentine’s get to sit and commiserate and eat noodles.
Japan has an even better tradition- White Day, on March 14. In Japan, it’s the girls who give the guys some honmei-choco (chocolate of love) for Valentine’s Day. A month later, guys are supposed to return the favor and follow the rule of sanbai gaeshi (literally “thrice the return”) and give their lady a gift 2-3x as expensive as the gift they received on Valentine’s Day. Now THAT’S a holiday!
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That is awesome – yet another reason I love japanese culture.
Yeah. Of course, that would still entail me having someone. Until then, I guess I’m eating noodles with black bean sauce.