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Your Valentine's Day Plans for 2003?
Nos. writes "Valentine's Day is rapidly approaching, and though some of you Slashdot readers will be spending the day alone, there must be some of you out there who won't. So, what are you doing for that someone special this Feb 14th? My fiance is not a geek, and so wouldn't appreciate a 'geeky Valentine's'. Instead, I'm thinking a nice quiet dinner in one of our favourite restaurants. However, I recently got the 'You don't do anything romantic anymore' speech, and quite honestly am out of ideas. Can slashdot help? Obviously slashdot isn't the best place to ask, but I'm sure others are in a similar situation."
Last year I got up in the wee hours of the morning and drove 500 miles so I could take my fiance out for dinner on valentine's day. She broke up with me the next morning. It seems that she had made the decision to dump me days before, but thought it was more sensitive and kind to let me drive across three states and then break up with me. Hell, I wish she had just done it over the phone. It would have saved me the gas and time.
The tackiest part is that right before we went to bed on Valentine's Day (i.e. before she had said anything about breaking up) she left the room, went to her computer, and emailed me a letter saying how much she loved me, how hard this was to do, blah, blah...
I mean, what's the deal with women and bad timing? I've just sat through two hours of emotional agony, then I start to regain some composure. I log on to email my friends and family to let them know that the wedding is off...and the first thing that I POP'd was a letter from her. Like I really need all of that thrust back into my face again!