Valentine’s Day stories

[cgasner1]

I’m sure you guys have to have some funny stories for the day. My best one is about 6 years ago I was doing some work in an alley in a little town cutting over some transformers. Whatever reason I had an oops and hooked the wrong wires together and knocked the power out of the floral shop at around 330 in the afternoon on Valentine’s Day. To say the owner came out upset would be an understatement. What are the odds of working on a flower shop on Valentine’s Day. Forman was laughing pretty hard he had plans on slipping in and buying his wife some flowers but opted out of that idea after we got them back in power.

 

[Dave N]

Met my wife on Valentine's Day. Out drinking with the boys and she was in there after working for her mom. Mom ran a flower shop. One year I got roped into doing deliveries for her.

 

[Robert N]

My Now Wife told me straight up: “I don’t celebrate Hallmark Holidays.”

25 years together later…

Yeah, I married her. 21 years ago.

She’s off the market boys. Sorry, but not.

#*^@#* V-Day. I don’t cowtow to any holiday designed around fake guilt.

 

[longbow51]

Good friend of mine's boyfriend noticed her fingernails; pink hearts (yeah, she's girly-girl), and said, what are those for? Valentine's Day, what else? He said, oh, I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. She said, oh, you do now .

 

[Dan-06]

I bought the wife a new car through the business. She didn’t know the particulars. I didn’t say. I had her go get the mail yesterday. The title was there. She was happy.

 

[longbow51]

I got my wife a conch shell necklace, and a card reminding her of when we free-dived for conch on our way to Sting-Ray City on Grand Cayman, with conch ceviche for lunch (I found three), and a necklace from the Plaza in Santa Fe, where we began (but were too poor to buy anything). Any day to love someone is a good day. Look up the actual St. Valentine. Peace to all.

 

[noharleyyet]

I got my wife a conch shell necklace, and a card reminding her of when we free-dived for conch on our way to Sting-Ray City on Grand Cayman, with conch ceviche for lunch (I found three), and a necklace from the Plaza in Santa Fe, where we began (but were too poor to buy anything). Any day to love someone is a good day. Look up the actual St. Valentine. Peace to all.

Well done longbow.

 

[Phaseolus]

I went goose hunting on Valentine's day with my oldest friends. I did send her flowers though.

 

[Wind Gypsy]

Only funny thing I can recall on vday is going to see Book of Mormon at pantages for a vday date. Laughed my ass off.

 

[Nuts]

Married 31 years. Wife always says dont worry about it then gets me a card amd chocolate. Grown kids always give me a hard time. So this year I made her promise she would seriously not get me anything. No games. We for real aren't doing it. She agreed. Then I got her a card, roses and chocolate. Probally not to many guys have bought that for their wives and been called names. Lol. Its been 2 days. Its got a ton of milage already. Especially with the kids. All in good fun of course

 

[Dave N]

Married 31 years. Wife always says dont worry about it then gets me a card amd chocolate. Grown kids always give me a hard time. So this year I made her promise she would seriously not get me anything. No games. We for real aren't doing it. She agreed. Then I got her a card, roses and chocolate. Probally not to many guys have bought that for their wives and been called names. Lol. Its been 2 days. Its got a ton of milage already. Especially with the kids. All in good fun of course

You're a brave man!

 

[Dsnow9]

Maybe that’s why she was mad at me on Saturday… She always says we don’t celebrate those hallmark holidays. It’s about a 50/50 chance she will decide the day of that I should have done something and then be mad at me because of it. I mostly worked in the yard trying to finish up her office. She will appreciate it later, I hope!

 

[MNElkNut]

Both of us recycle the same Vday card from 20-some years ago. I carefully store it every year and give it to her. She does the same. So Hallmark got us once in roughly 25 years!

 

[Hem]

Card, flowers, skiing.
Everyone happy.

 

[MaddH]

I lost my wedding ring about 6 months ago. On Vday wife says let’s go to town. She drives straight to the jewelry store and says I’m getting you a new ring. Ok. She looks at rings with me for about 30 seconds and then heads to the women’s rings. Oh gee look what I’ve found, the ring I’ve been looking for. Well boys she grabbed that ring and I’m down $11,000. Should’ve seen the trap coming

 

[noharleyyet]

We have too many obligatory gift exchange dates condensed into a 4 month time period. November anniversary, Christmas, January & February birthdays. 43 years x 8 potential gifts is ridiculous...& I'm leaving out all the other Hallmark lobbying Mad Avenue bombs us with.

We let each other slide somewhat but never use logic for the kids and grandkids.

 

[MaddH]

I lost my wedding ring about 6 months ago. On Vday wife says let’s go to town. She drives straight to the jewelry store and says I’m getting you a new ring. Ok. She looks at rings with me for about 30 seconds and then heads to the women’s rings. Oh gee look what I’ve found, the ring I’ve been looking for. Well boys she grabbed that ring and I’m down $11,000. Should’ve seen the trap coming

But even though I got burnt on the ring, she did surprise me with a guided whitetail hunt in Wyoming too. Expensive Vday for sure

 

[Sawtooth]

My wife and I both are not fans of the Hallmark Holiday as well. But I try to set up a Valentine type day or two each year at random times. An extra special night on the town or weekend get away. @MaddH 's story about the rings, reminds me of a story I will share with you all. About twenty-five years ago I lost my wedding ring while in the process of quartering a mule deer buck. My guess is it came off sometime while washing my hands in a cold creek during cleanup. Realizing my loss, I rented a metal detector and hiked the three miles back to the creek. After about an hour of searching the area I was still without a ring. My wife could tell I was upset because with our second child on the way and a public school teachers salary, this was not the time to be spending money to replace lost items. Her response was, it's ok, well will replace it later. Fast forward to a few months later and I am at school. One of my students comes up to me at the end of class in a very hesitant, sheepish sort of way. I ask the young lady what was up and she said, "I have a aunt who is super awesome and I think that you two should meet. I think the two of you would get along great." I then told her that I was honored to think that she thought that I would be a good match for her favorite aunt, but that I was already married. She said, "But you don't have a ring, so I just thought ......" Needless to say, I dug into our emergency fund and purchased a new ring a few days later.

 

[2rocky]