a valentine's day massacre

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I have a friend. Well, she's more of an annoyance really. Or not even an annoyance, maybe just a colleague who used to be a colleague who became a friend, and then reverted back, due to circumstances and other stuff. So, I have a colleague. At lunch on Tuesday we were nattering about what we're going to do on our half-term holy-days next week and somebody brought up Valentine's Day, which obviously falls - very nearly - smack bang in the middle of it. Oh, you don't celebrate that, do you? We never do. You should be showing that you love each other every day, not on one day just set aside for it, she declared, snottily, forgetting for a minute that she's common as muck. {I'm not just saying that to be rude, she genuinely is as common as a mucky pup.} Um, we do! we said. She just sniffed and looked down her nose at us, all superior like. I don't have such an issue with Valentine's Day. I'm not keen on the extortionate price of flowers - which have a habit of Death within a day or two - and I can happily survive without chocolates - although I'll grudgingly accept and then scoff them, since it would be rude not to - and don't get me started on all those Facebook photos of flowers posted by women proclaiming, See, he does love meeee!, but it's a nice time to just plan something for yourselves as a couple, chill out and reflect on the love you have for each other. It in no way detracts from the other three hundred and sixty four days of the year where you still do all the things that show your love. And isn't it akin to asking why someone who doesn't go to church both celebrates Christmas and then stuffs their mouth with chocolate at Easter? It's just a day. Let the sheeple {and I include myself in that} bow down to the pressures of the companies who want to make big bucks. Don't be the party-pooper who spoils other people's fun with such a superior High and Mighty judgmental attitude. You're not God. I'm not fussed if you celebrate Valentine's Day or not, and I wouldn't judge you either way. As long as you're happy ... that's all that matters.