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Anonymous Angel: Worst Valentine's Days Ever
Seung Pang, Staff Writer
It is that time of year when
people are divided into two
groups: the crazy-in-love or
the super-single. People get
butterflies anticipating this
day ... or they mark this day
as an excuse to binge drink.
This article is for fhose of
us celebrating the 14th as
the Single Awareness Day.
A few MC girls wrote in to
us dishing their worst ever
V-Day stories. Enjoy!
Drive Baby, Drive
“My ex-boyfriend and I met
in Math ciass couple of years
ago. Soon after we started
dating, I started to see his
flaws; he was always cocky
to me and my friends, and
he was a proud 22-year-old
mama’s boy living with his
parents. I didn’t like him that
much, but I stayed with him
because i was too insecure
to break up with him.
As the Valentine’s Day was
getting close, he started
bragging that he has
something mind-blowingiy
romantic planned. On the
V-day, he called me in the
afternoon, ‘Hey baby, check
the backseat of your carl’ I
found a piece of flashcard
saying, the Valentine’s Day
scavenger hunt, which
asked me to go the place
we first hung out: his best
friend’s apartment.
I drove there to get another
flashcard from his best
friend, ‘Go to where we first
kissed’: the parking lot in
front of the gym I used to
go to. I went there to find
another flashcard, “Go to
where we first met”: school.
Again, I went to school on
my day off to find another
fiashcard, ‘Go to where we
first worked out together’:
the gym that I just stopped
by. Finally, I went to the
gym again. And one of the
trainers gave me the last
flashcard, ‘Meet me at the
Cold Stone at 8 p.m.’
When I got to the Cold
Stone, I realized that I had
been driving for over 2
hours while he was eating
dinner at his parents house.
I broke up with him the next
day because I couldn’t put
up with his stupid narcissism
anymore. He was so upset
at the fact that I broke up
with him. Then, he posted
on Faoebook, ‘Just broke
up, moving on starts with 25
beers.”
Video Games
“I heard the other day that
there are some restaurants
that book a year in advance
for Valentine’s Day. Due to
movies, books, and clever
marketing campaigns,
Valentine’s Day has always
seemed like this magical
couples day. I used to think
that everything would be
perfect if I had a boyfriend on
the holiday that celebrates
love. Oh how wrong I was.
My one and only V-Day with
a boyfriend turned out to be
one of the worst. We had
been together for about 10
months. The holiday landed
on a Friday, so it was the
perfect opportunity to go
out and have a late night
without worrying about the
next day’s responsibilities.
The whole week, he would
not give me a definite
answer if he was available
on V-Day.
On Friday, he picked me
up and took me to an
awkwardly tense dinner
where we argued about
politics and religion - normal
couple stuff, ya know? And
after, I had to ask him if it
was okay to spend the night
at his apartment. Almost
immediately after we
completed our obligatory
V-Day romantic encounter,
he asked “Wait... you’re
serious about wanting
to spend the night?” He
wanted me to leave so he
could play video games with
his roommates. Cool.
Needless to say, it lasted
about a week after that. But
the moral of the story is that
the next Valentine’s Day, I
went out with a fellow single
girl friend of mine. We went
to see Jupiter Ascending,
where we laughed so hard
that we cried as the theater
lost power on multiple
occasions during the film.
We made friends with the
others in the theater while
we waited for the movie to
come back on.
And although it wasn’t an
ideal romantic dinner date
with a long-term boyfriend,
it was an experience that
was tar more enjoyable and
memorable. Sometimes
the ideal Valentine’s Day is
simply spending time with
the people who make you
happy.”
The Girl with No
Scrunchies
“Once upon a time when I
was dating a man-child and
paying all of his bills with my
meager baby-sitting cash, I
was so excited to celebrate
Valentine’s Day. Finally, he
was going to take me out
and I wouldn’t have to pay
for dinner - we we’re going
to have a real romantic
evening, almost like a real
couple!
This guy told me for weeks
ahead of time that he had
bought me something
that I would actually use. I
didn’t really NEED flowers
or chocolate or silly things
like that, he assured me.
Oh no, he was gonna give
me something better - the
absolute convenience of a
pack of scrunchy hair ties!
How generous ... !
Now, I’m not that fancy a
girl. I really don’t need to be
wined and dined, or taken to
exotic locales, but I do need
someone who takes more
than a micro-second of
thought at the checkout at
Walgreens to demonstrate
how they feel about me. I
am much more than just a
girl with unruly hair that so
obviously needs to be tied
back and managed. I didn’t
realize that then.”
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