What Are the Best Valentine's Day Stunts?

With the oh-so-dreaded Hallmark holiday on the horizon we are flooded with tips and tricks (mostly designed to sell us things our mates cannot live without) of how to please/capture/sedate the ones we care for. One writer even suggests ways to capture the interest of a geeky girl. That said, what are some of the crazier romantically inspired, geeky V-day stunts or activities that you or someone you know has executed to terrible success or failure?

Comments

Get her pregnant

[mdf356]

I never timed it around V-day, but my wife thinks getting pregnant is romantic. :-)

None whatsoever

[Hatta]

Life is not a romantic comedy. If you're already in a relationship, nice chocolate, flowers, and dinner (or any subset of the above) is plenty celebration. If you're not already in a relationship, don't start one on V-day. Just don't.

Re:None whatsoever

[sarahbau]

The Slashdot title didn't really have anything to do with the linked article. It's not really about stunts, but about what might be seen as romantic vs. what might be seen as lame or generic, which of course depends entirely on the recipient, so "Ask Slashdot" isn't really a good place for an answer. I personally don't care for flowers or chocolate for Valentine's day. While I love chocolate, the stuff stores stock for Valentine's day tends to be of low quality, and in tacky, heart-shaped boxes.

I agree that starting a relationship for Valentine's day is a bad idea. For some reason, people seem to think they must be in a relationship, so a lot of bad relationships are probably started for Valentine's day.

Re:None whatsoever

[Planesdragon]

Life is not a romantic comedy. If you're already in a relationship, nice chocolate, flowers, and dinner (or any subset of the above) is plenty celebration.

Romantic Comedies are popular in large part because they try and reflect what women dream of happening -- and there are worse ways to prove one's love than planning a big showy stunt that makes your beloved smile. (What worse ways? I'd say blindly giving her chocolate, flowers, and dinner. Unless you KNOW that she likes those.)

Your guiding principle is "what would make her smile." If you know her well enough to know that she would like a big showy stunt, then don't let some nobody on the internet tell you otherwise. If you know that she DOES like chocolate and flowers, then go for it.

And if you don't know her well enough to know what she likes, you don't know her well enough to give her a notable valentine's gift.

Stunts?

[IANAAC]

I'm guessing you're not getting the concept.

For the record, I hate Valentine's Day. It's just silly to assign a day of the year to plan something romantic.

Re:Stunts?

[dreamchaser]

If you love someone you shouldn't need to be forced to do something to make her happy once in awhile. How sad.

Wait a minute

[SnarfQuest]

Why are you tormenting us poor slashdot readers? You know we don't have significant others!

Re:Keep it simple

[clone53421]

Men have been doing that for their families for millennia.

You can’t bring home the bacon without slaughtering a pig.