Helping Conway, SC Tell Its Story

You know, it always upset me that Charlie Brown didn't get any valentines. I remember watching the special and thinking that his school teacher must be a dunce (at 7 "idiot" was still a no-no word) for letting her students completely leave out poor Charlie.

 

Every year the same special would run on TVand every year I sat and endured poor Charlie getting only a pitiful used valentine at the end from Violet. A used Valentine! What heartless writer came up with this crap? (At 11, crap sounded very tough.) Yes I always felt sorry for old Charlie, especially when every year my Dad always made sure my siblings and I had a card and candy.

 
But it wasn't until the year that I received a Budweiser teddy bear 10 days after the 14th that I truly felt Charlie's pain. I remember the exact moment too, I was standing there looking into the dark plastic eyes of that teddy bear with "This Bears For You" written in the Budweiser script
on its little hat, thinking why in the world would a man give a lady who had never had more than three sips of champagne at Christmas time, a alcoholic-beverage-pushing plush toy! And 10 days late to boot!

Why even bother. And that’s when it hit me: Valentine’s Day was seriously overrated. Think about it. Every year people go crazy over the 14th. They rush around trying to get the perfect gift, or they feel lonely because they are without anybody.  Men forget and run out to the nearest rite-aid and get some stale candy and a half deflated balloon. Then the women get mad because their boyfriends/husbands forgot and picked up the wrong thing. All so that we can prove our love to each other!
 
Why should we have to have a day to show the ones we love we care? If a person truly means something to you, it shouldn't matter what day of the year it is. A rose on a Tuesday means just as much as one on Valentine’s Day. Now, I am not knocking Valentine’s Day completely. Before the mass-media-monster got ahold of it, it was a pretty good holiday because it meant something. It was a day to celebrate the deep connection between two people, not a giant marketing ploy to line the pockets of Wal-Mart and Hallmark.
 
I say all this, but alas, I will be doing something for my man even though he looks at Valentine’s Day the way I do. But it will mean something and not just take up space on his dresser....so maybe Valentines isn't that overrated....maybe it’s just nice to be thought of on a day set aside to be thinking of people....ah shoot. I am one of the masses.
 
Oh well, I'm off to Walgreens...I need to buy a certain little bald fellow in a yellow shirt a Valentine...a new

one! :)

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