[NYC GOP Chick]

OK, we're amongst friends here, so don't be shy about telling your very own stories! ;D

[Larry Lucido]

Is this our regular Saturday night vacuous NYT writer thread?

[Keith in Iowa]

Re: Gauchat; why would a woman he's met only a few weeks prior buy something like a blue cashmere sweater??? What's up with that?

[Senator Pardek]

The coolest gift I ever gave to a girl was an electronic drumkit!

[Libloather]

'validate her emotional needs.'

Once you try that, you're doomed. DOOMED!

[MisterRepublican]

"...nasty e-mails referring to my inability to 'validate her emotional needs.'"

I think old Piet dodged a bullet with this one.

[k2blader]

Valentine's has always been one of the least important "holidays" to me. :-)

[MisterRepublican]

Kudos to NYT for another miserable and depressing Valentine's Day story. Maureen Dowd is obviously an editor there as well as a columnist.

[xm177e2]

Hmmmm... a reason not to hate Valentine's Day: the alternative could be worse.

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

For our first Valentine's Day together, my husband got me a giant frying pan. Last year he made me a cd of songs that reminded him of me. And this year he got me perfume. He's definitely getting better with age.

I don't know what this says about me, but I got him a Leisure Suit Larry computer game this year. He's been playing it for several hours now. I hope I don't end up regretting this. :-)

[BobS]

"I freaked out because I realized that I would have to reciprocate without making it look like I was doing so only because I found out about the tulips," she said. "I wanted things not to be awkward."

Precisely. Years ago I said not to buy me presents larger than a 5x11 envelope. So various cuties sent me about 300 Euros and my current one gave me 100 Rials from Brasil. And I sent Euros to Brasil and Rials to Spain!

One of these days those gals are going to sneak up on me and say "HEY!"

[Larry Lucido]

"People don't realize until it's too late that each of us has a secret relationship rule book based on a combination of expectation, fantasies or even television," she said. "We come into a relationship not even realizing we have it, but we enforce it immediately."

Allow me to translate into manspeak:

If the chick's a psycho, dump her.

[sandbar]

My husband and I don't make too big a deal out of Valentines Day. I got a little mushier than usual this year with dedicating a song to him complete with lyrics in the card. It seemed to fit us to a T. I haven't gotten mine yet, but it's usually candy and card. Not the most romantic on frivilous gifts, but last year for Mother's Day, he built me a picnic table by hand. I had commented I wanted one to have picnics in good weather under our cedar tree. Or one day for no reason he installed a ceiling fan over our bed because I get hot at night. Those kinds of gifts are FAARRR better than any store bought flower or trinket.

[Richard Kimball]

Allow me to post this so ALL Freeper young men can read it. Valentine's Day is not a holiday. It's a test.

[Larry Lucido]

Okay, here's my unsolicited but impeccable wisdom:

Any amount spent beyond what is needed to get laid is wasted.

[carlr]

Here is hoping that you get the valentine gift that you so very richly deserve.

There,how did I do?

[mdittmar]

I like this story.

Happy Valentines Day.

[Axenolith]

Valentines Day is Monday?!?!

Kill me now...

[William Terrell]

Oh please. Give me a break.

[mowkeka]

Bumpy.