“You Can Do Better”
Heading back to her desk
with a cup of tea, Carol stopped at Mike’s cubicle. “What’s new?” she asked.
Mike typed for a few more
seconds then saved his work. Spinning
his chair around to face her he replied, “Not much. But as I drove in this morning I had an idea
for a new holiday.”
Carol blew on her
tea. “Oh, for what?”
“Well, you know how
annoying the lovey-dovey crap gets in the week before Valentine’s Day?”
“Annoying?”
“Well, maybe not for
happy couples like you and Dave, but for most people the days leading up to
Valentine’s Day are almost sickening. So
I was thinking of making a day for the opposite. I figured February 21st could be, I don’t
know, ‘You can do better’ Day.
Basically, after weeks of the lovey-dovey crap, there should be at least
one week of commercials for divorce lawyers and stores could put out their ‘I
no longer love you’ cards.”
Carol smiled. “Are we a tad bitter about being single on
Valentine’s Day?”
Mike shrugged. “Hey, if all you happy couples can rub your
joy in the faces of everyone else, why can’t we rub our misery back?”
***
Even when I was in a
relationship I didn’t care for all the lovey-dovey crap around Valentine’s
Day. And I can’t be the only one who’d
get a chuckle out of a “You can do better” Day.
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