NYC: Valentine's Day

     Sorry but if you think this is going to be a sexual story, you should stop reading now & turn to someone else's blog. This is a semi rant. That being said, I'll begin.
     I saw this guy tonight on the subway with flowers in his hand. Seeing how this is Wednesday & Valentine's Day isn't for over a week, this lead me to a few different thoughts:
1. The person he's giving them to is in the hospital.
2. The person has a birthday.
3. This guy did something wrong & is in some seriously deep trouble to be giving a dozen roses to someone this far ahead of Valentine's.
4. This guy's really romantic & is giving the flowers just because.
Personally, I'm going with #3. It lead me to a question, though. How easily can women be bought off? Is it flowers, jewelry, chocolate, what? Shouldn't love be shown every day of the week & not just once a year? I don't get it.
     Guys are trained to think think that if you give some combination of the 3 one day a year, it gets them off the hook for whatever they did. Who trained guys to think this way? Women. Actually, women & DeBeers.
     You see those DeBeers commercials on tv about how you should show a woman how much you love her with a diamond. Say what? First off, it makes women look like they're shallow gold diggers. "Oh, I was going to marry him but the diamond wasn't big enough". Some stupid rock from the ground is supposed to show how much a man cares? That's crazy. What about listening to what a woman has to say & really LISTENING to what a woman has to say? What about being attentive & loving? Nope. "Here's a rock that was buried in the ground for a 1,000 years, some plants that'll be dead in 3 days, & some 3,000 caleries goodies that'll put 20 pounds on you before it even hits those lips but seeing as how we're gonna work those pounds off for a few hours tonight, dig in & eat up."
     I know I'll probably catch hell for saying that but I'm serious. I just don't understand the materialistic nature to the holiday. It's like Christmas. If you don't get someone a gift for Christmas, they think you don't like them. How about "yo, I'm not made of money?! Don't mean I don't love ya!!" We've gotten way too materialistic as a society & Valentine's Day is a sad reflection of that. Romance & showing love ain't what they used to be. I'm just sayin.