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Strangest Valentine's Day Gifts? 174

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BladeMelbourne asks: "On Valentine's Day my partner gave me (among other things), two comet goldfish, to put in my tank with my existing comet. Where she got the idea to give fish for Valentines day is still a mystery. I'm curious to know if any Slashdot readers gave/received any unusual gifts - and whether the gift was appreciated or not?"
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  • Not quite the same but (Score:3, Interesting)

    by AvitarX ( 172628 ) <me&brandywinehundred,org> on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @12:22AM (#8301611) Journal
    My Dad once got my Step Mother a Bonzi tree for soem gift to her holiday (V-day,B-day Mothers day etc.). She hated it because it was like another pet to take care of and it promptly died due to neglect (though it is the thoguh, right?)

  • duh.. (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward

    On Valentine's Day my partner gave me .. two comet goldfish, to put in my tank with my existing comet.

    Gee, where did she come up with that CRAZY IDEA!

    PS: what is a "partner", is that like a tax designation for a business or what?

  • The Greatest Gift (Score:5, Funny)

    by sushi_steve ( 713062 ) <steve.meninpink@net> on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @12:25AM (#8301622)
    This year I got the same great gift my significant other has given me for the past 7 years:

    A night at home in front of glowing CRT =/

  • What...? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @12:26AM (#8301635)
    You told me you liked the fish!

    Bastard.
    • If I were you I'd be more upset that BladeMelbourne didn't get your hint about the three-way, and start looking for someone a bit more open-minded...

  • A kitchen sink... (Score:5, Funny)

    by (H)elix1 ( 231155 ) <slashdot.helix@nOSPaM.gmail.com> on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @12:33AM (#8301699) Homepage Journal
    My bride asked for a new kitchen sink... The 20 some year old cheapo that came with the house was leaking, so when I was trying to subtly ask for ideas she came right out and stated the desire of her heart. Five hours, many trips to the hardware store, and not knowing if we are going to ever be able to turn the water mains back on... I succeeded.

    Did not make that mistake again... asking, that is...

  • love at first kiss (Score:5, Funny)

    by HaiLHaiL ( 250648 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @12:35AM (#8301715) Homepage
    In addition to a getting me a sweet new pair of airwalks, my gf framed me a picture [pearl-jam.com] of Ed Vedder (who I worship) and Anthony Kiedis (who she worships) locking lips. Nothing like a picture of two guys kissing sitting on your mantle.
    • In addition to a getting me a sweet new pair of airwalks, my gf framed me a picture of Ed Vedder (who I worship) and Anthony Kiedis (who she worships) locking lips.

      Awwww, how disgusting.

      Nothing like a picture of two guys kissing sitting on your mantle.

      You can say that again, but I'll never know.

      LK
    • Freezing, rest my head on a pillow made of concrete...

  • Everything is appreciated (Score:5, Funny)

    by cperciva ( 102828 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @12:36AM (#8301723) Homepage
    I'm curious to know if any Slashdot readers gave/received any unusual gifts - and whether the gift was appreciated or not?

    I've appreciated every unusual gift I've received on Valentine's day.

    Heck, I've appreciated every gift, unusual or not, which I've received on Valentine's day.

    Ok, I'll admit it: I've never received any gifts on Valentine's day. :(

  • an account (Score:5, Funny)

    by rodentia ( 102779 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @12:39AM (#8301751)
    I got my wife a beginning PHP book and an account on my server. Worked a treat, I can tell you. Today I teased her about wanting to walk with her and have all the guys admire her: Look at the head on that broad! She allowed that she had told all her co-workers about it but not everyone appreciated what a great present it was.

    • Ohhhhhh how beautiful geek-love is :)

    • Re:an account (Score:5, Funny)

      by FrenZon ( 65408 ) * on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @02:15AM (#8302255) Homepage
      I got my wife a beginning PHP book and an account on my server. Worked a treat, I can tell you
      I gave my girlfriend a domain and an account on my server for Valentine's day just after we got together two years ago. She had just bought a PHP/MySQL book, and had no place to work it. She seemed to like it at the time (but didn't seem to appreciate the 'got root?' t-shirt I gave her as a followup present later in the year).

      The best part of it is that the domain expires at the end of each year, so I know what to get her EVERY Valentines day! It's the gift that keeps on giving!

      It's also insurance; If she ever breaks up with me, no webpages and email for you, missy! *kapow*!


      And if she's reading this right now, er .. I love you, honey :*

  • Candy hearts with a twist (Score:3, Insightful)

    by joelparker ( 586428 ) <joel@school.net> on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @12:43AM (#8301783) Homepage
    You know those little candy hearts
    with saying like Kiss Me and Be Mine?

    Now imagine her wearing them.
    And only them. Whooo-hooo!

    Candy hearts facts [factmonster.com]

    Cheers, Joel

  • My wife.... (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Gave me sex in unusual positions and time to myself.... does that count??

    --
    insert someone's witty sig here.

  • Worst Give EVAR!! (Score:5, Funny)

    by gmhowell ( 26755 ) <gmhowell@gmail.com> on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @12:52AM (#8301833) Homepage Journal
    Slashdot Subscription. The gift that says 'I see you love your computer more than me'.

  • It's symbolic (Score:5, Funny)

    by stinkyelf ( 558533 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @12:54AM (#8301844) Homepage
    the fish was lonely so she got another one to keep it company (somewhat like you before you met her huh?)

    As for the third fish, there are 2 explanations, she wants a threesome and was using the third fish to hint at it or she knows how fish always die so was buying it in anticipation.

    • Re:It's symbolic (Score:3, Informative)

      by daviddennis ( 10926 )
      I'm not sure everyone got the joke, or I did, but I believe the Comet is a tropical salt water fish and the Goldfish are cold fresh water. If the goldfish were put in the same tank, they would die instantly, if the Comet didn't eat the goldfish first :-(.

      I can't help but wonder what the guy did about this; perhaps he can tell us the ending of the story.

      D
      • A comet is a veriety of single-tail goldfish. The "typical" goldfish that you get at the fair for throwing a ping-pong ball into a bowl is a litle comet.

        A comet is a nice fish. It can be a little agressive if your other fish are fancy and slow varieties, but in general goldfish are much nicer to each other than tropical fish. When I had goldfish, they would huddle down on the bottom together at night.

        They are friendly and social animals.

        • There's also a comet wrasse and a comet grouper. I think the creature I've seen is a comet wrasse.

          I guess we'll just have to wait for the original poster to find out what was really meant. In your case, there would be no problem with the gift and it would have been genuinely sweet. I doubt that's the situation considering the context.

          D
        • Exactly right Jammer.

          They are fresh/cold water fish. Very hardy, and prefer alkaline environments too.

          And I am so sick of hearing about my 3 fish having 3somes - there has been nothing of the sort going on (unless they do IT at night?).

          BladeMelbourne

  • If this were Fark... (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @12:57AM (#8301864)
    I'd say that I got a Hot Cocoa Sampler pack.

  • What is this 'Valentines Day' you speak of? (Score:5, Funny)

    by madMingusMax ( 693022 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @01:04AM (#8301903)
    And why does everyone avoid me on Feb 14?

    (Adjusts tape on glasses, scratches self, and resumes coding)

  • Got a gift for myself (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @01:16AM (#8301964)
    I was bound and determined not to spend another Valentine's Day alone, so I bough THIS [fleshlight.com]!!!

  • Geeks in love (Score:5, Funny)

    by travail_jgd ( 80602 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @01:20AM (#8301991)
    My GF got me a 256 MB DIMM for my computer, and has Player's Guide to Faerun on pre-order. And she took me out to dinner, to Famous Hot Weiner.

    I got her a charoite pendant, serpentine chain -- plus a new hard drive for her computer.

    Having a geek grrlfriend: priceless.

  • Got myself my gift... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Eagle7 ( 111475 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @01:34AM (#8302060) Homepage
    I got a gift for the dog and a gift for the wife... but the wife only got me a card. So I went out and bought myself a drill press. :)

  • Tolkien to the Rescue! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Txiasaeia ( 581598 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @01:41AM (#8302096)
    I got my wife a nice hardcover edition of The Hobbit. She has the Lord of the Rings trilogy in a now-defunct edition from about 10 years ago (from the UK, no less; I'm in Canada) and I've spent the last three years looking for the Hobbit from that edition, to no avail. I figured this would be the next best thing.

    Luckily I readied her for the past few weeks by saying, "Now I got you a gift, but it's not all Valentine-ey or whatnot, but you'll like it."

    Maybe it's a bad sign when she said, "You got me a GIFT! Really?"

  • Best Present (Score:5, Funny)

    by Inexile2002 ( 540368 ) * on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @01:48AM (#8302129) Homepage Journal
    I got an ex a nice lacy number two years ago. She liked it so much she informed me that since we celebrated Valentines for her, we'd celebrate "Beer and a Blow Job Day" on March 14th. Best holiday ever. Current gf doesn't think it's such a hot idea, but I told her I felt the same way about Valentines day so I've got a month to convince her.

    Btw, you celebrate BABJ Day by her getting you a cold beer first thing in the morning, giving you a blow job while you drink it and then her letting you do whatever you want for the day. She's supposed to serve you steak for dinner and top the day off with another beer and a blow job. There are days when I miss my ex.

    • Re:Best Present (Score:3, Funny)

      by jpmkm ( 160526 )
      March 14th is steak and a blowjob day. I'm just glad I'll be home for spring break that day(actually I go back to school that day but i'll still have time). Yes, I have a girlfriend. Yes, she is okay with the idea. No, I won't share.

    • Re:Best Present (Score:5, Funny)

      by corbettw ( 214229 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @01:03PM (#8305840) Journal
      So, let me get this straight: your ex-girlfriend was more than happy to celebrate Beer and Blowjob Day with you, and was happy that you bought her a sexy outfit for Valentine's Day (a gift more for you than her). And your current girlfriend likes none of that stuff. Is that pretty much right?

      As Gob Bluthe would say, you've made a huuuge mistake.
      • Sigh. No, trust me I haven't.

        I never thought I would hear myself say this but there are other things to consider with a girl than freaky sex and willingness to give blow jobs. The girl was a doormat and although she was right pretty to look at she had the personality of a lamp post. She new that all she really had to offer was sex, and at the time I was perfectly happy to settle for that. But when you're actually embarrassed to be around her in public because your friend's nickname for her is "Bag of H
        • Agreed, however right now (and coming up on our first year anniversary), I am dating a woman who is a research scientist by day and... errr.. quite amorous at night (which is as far as I'll go about a current SO in a public forum). She's a chemistry and trek geek (she's slated to be in Trekkies II as an Orion Slave Girl).

          We did the Rocky Horror Picture Show on Valentine's Day (I'm the director of the local cast, she's the projectionist), so we did Valentine's Day on Monday instead. Spent the day inside e

        • But when you're actually embarrassed to be around her in public because your friend's nickname for her is "Bag of Hammers" (as in "Dumb as a...") it's time to find a new girl.

          Or a new friend.

          And like I said, she hasn't said "No" to BABJ Day, she's just luke warm to the idea.

          It would take most of the fun out of a blowjob if you had to beg for a month to get it.

          Dunp the frigid bitch and find yourself a freaky geek chick.

          LK
          • Not to make such a large deal about it but .....

            The guys woman is apparently hot and smart, although she isnt kinky i would bet the saying 2 out of 3 aint bad comes into play here.

            Besides which, where the hell do you find freaky geek chick's ? its like trying to find a dodo bird, the only difference is there is proof the dodo exsisted, freaky geek chicks ? i think not. at least not hot freaky geek chicks.

  • Would you prefer... (Score:3, Funny)

    by InsaneCreator ( 209742 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @02:19AM (#8302275)
    ... Comet cursors instead?

  • Whiney bastard. (Score:5, Funny)

    by Klowner ( 145731 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @02:55AM (#8302401) Homepage
    It was about 5 or 6pm when I realized it was valentines day, and I didn't get anything either.. Oh well, back to coding..

    Why does it seem like all the recent Ask Slashdots have been posted by ungrateful whiny bastards?

    "Help, I've got too much bandwidth, why do I have so much?"
    "I found a truck in my yard full of AMD64 machines"
    "The stick I use for beating supermodels off of me is broken, what can I do? They won't stop touching me?"

    I hate you all!

  • Moo. (Score:5, Funny)

    by NanoGator ( 522640 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @03:06AM (#8302432) Homepage Journal
    My gf gave me a plastic cow that dispenses brown jelly beans. Of all the things I spend my time finding meaning in...
  • 50 replies? Damn, I owe somebody $1. Musta been the LotR movies.
  • Wait, sorry, not a poll thread... my mistake.

    I got some "Valentines" gifts and cards from family members, but as they're not in the so-called "spirit" of the holiday, I don't suppose they count.

    That being the case, I believe one could say that I didn't get anything for Val's day. That being the norm, one could question why I'm posting in this thread at all, to which I would respond, "bite me." In truth, it's probably loneliness and a touch of frustration which inspires me, and no doubt many others in similar romantic situations (or lack thereof), to post here.

    A few have expressed it before, that the holiday of February 14 is a discriminatory one, and I have to agree. Still, one could argue that it is no more or less a discriminatory holiday than any other "major" holiday is; Christmas is discriminatory to non-Christians, for example. The difference is that Christmas is an "optional" holiday, whereas Valentines Day seems to be applied to everyone, regaurdless to whether or not they want to take part in it.

    Think about it, you don't see many resteraunts offering cross-shaped salmon filets on Christmas, but for some reason it's popular and acceptable to offer heart-shaped filets, steaks, etc. on Valentines day. It is, in short, assumed that every man, woman, and child will be participating in said holiday, even though said holiday is not applicable to every man, woman, and child. The only other holiday where such assumption is made (which I can think of, right now) is New Year's Day, but you're hard-pressed to find people who do not use the "common" (aka Judeo-Christian) calendar primarily.

    But enough of my rather off-topic rant; please, those of you who were able to truly celebrate the holiday, share with us your stories. I, at least, want to hear of your experiences, how they were exciting and/or different, seemed strange and/or wonderful, or were just plain horrible.

    Respectfully,

    Undefined Parameter
    • Christmas isn't quite discriminatory to non-Christians, as there are a fair few other religions which have holidays along similar themes at more or less the same time of year.

      Valentine's day is just commercialism, IMO. But that might be because I don't have a girlfriend.

      • Valentine's day is just commercialism

        Worse than that: it's commercialism with the implied hint that if you don't participate, there's something wrong with you. For the record, I got my partner a box of handmade truffles (partly cause I like chocolate and I knew I'd eat some), but we opened them 3 days early. If I hadn't heard of those chocs before, odds are she wouldn't have gotten anything for Valentine's. It's not my style to think "hey, it's XXXX day, I'd better do what's expected of me." I think most

        • I only want to be with someone on Valentine's day next year if I happen to be going out with them. Trying to sort it out specifically for a meaningless commercialised event involving heart-shaped everything, far too much pink and a worldwide boost in the sale of roses (particularly red ones) strikes me as a good way down the path to breakupville and the psychiatrist's sofa.
    • The only other holiday where such assumption is made (which I can think of, right now) is New Year's Day, but you're hard-pressed to find people who do not use the "common" (aka Judeo-Christian) calendar primarily.

      Um, there's nothing "Judeo" about the solar calendar. The Jewish New Year is sometime in mid November, usually.

      As for Valentine's Day, it is for couples in love, and we as a society value and celebrate love (at least as an ideal, given the current divorce rates something is missing from the act

  • Worst gift I ever gave (Score:4, Informative)

    by sakusha ( 441986 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @04:14AM (#8302646)
    You might be surprised but the worst gift I ever gave was a dozen long stem roses. Actually, it was a rather NICE gift on multiple levels, but it was extremely poorly received.
    I was working in an incredibly horrible job, living hand to mouth, my girlfriend and I were living in a loft near Skid Row, barely able to pay the rent, and even food was scarce. One of my coworkers went down to the wholesale flower mart and bought a whole load of boxed longstem roses, really nice ones. He sold them on the street in front of our office during his lunch hour for $75. At the end of the day, he had one box left over, and the buyers were all gone, he knew how poor I was so he just gave them to me, and wished me and my GF a happy Valentines day.
    So I took the roses home, and immediately my GF had a fit, how DARE I spend money so frivolously on an expensive gift like THAT! We can barely pay the rent, and you bought expensive FLOWERS?!? Well, I could hardly tell her I got them for free, so I just took the heat.
    The next year at Valentine's day, I was doing a little better moneywise, so I bought her some jewelry, some gold/pearl earrings. She had another fit, she wanted diamond earrings, I said I couldn't afford anything like that. She demanded to know how much they cost, and said if should have just given her the money instead.
    It should come as no surprise we broke up not too long after that.
    • I didn't follow why you couldn't tell her you got them for free...

      The latter part though seems unreasonable.

      This valentines I bought my ex-gf a large cuddly valentines bear. She loved it, but kept asking why had I bought it etc.
      oh well.

      • Re:Worst gift I ever gave (Score:2, Insightful)

        by Anonymous Coward
        "I didn't follow why you couldn't tell her you got them for free..."

        You must be new to this SO thing :-)

      • I just couldn't think of any way to make the free flowers work to my advantage in any way. "Gee honey, I didn't have any money so I wasn't going to get you ANYTHING, but then I got these flowers for FREE so I could give them to you and not look like a cheap bastard." Yeah that was sure to inflame the situation.

    • Re:Worst gift I ever gave (Score:5, Funny)

      by SuiteSisterMary ( 123932 ) <slebrunNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @10:39AM (#8304366) Journal

      Hee hee, reminds me of my first giving-flowers-to-the-wife debacle.

      I arranged for the delivery, and the guy said they'd be delivered that day, probably early afternoon. I was home for the later afternoon, and they hadn't been delivered.

      So I'm sitting on the couch, reading a newspaper, when a knock knock knock sounds at the door. There's the flower guy.

      The wife looks at me. "You going to answer that?" The wife hates answering the door. "No," I said, "I think you should."

      So she gives me a look which, if looks could kill, would splatter me across the wall, stomps over to the door, and flings it open. "Yes?" she growls out in that pissed-off female way.

      "Flowers for Suzanne, with love, from your husband. Happy Valentines Day."

      She turned around and immediatly broke into full-on bawling.

    • One time my fiancee (now wife) and I were shopping before Valentine's Day and she saw a pair of cubic zirconia earrings that were about $12. She said something, "Oh, these are pretty" and we went on.

      For Valentine's Day, I bought her a watch (~$40). She looked at it and her face darkened a bit and she was moody for the rest of the day (she *said* she liked it, but I could tell she was miffed). Finally, I said, "What is wrong with the watch? Don't you like it?".

      It turns out she was expecting the cheap CZ

      • Re:Worst gift I ever gave (Score:4, Insightful)

        by Wolfrider ( 856 ) <kingneutron AT gmail DOT com> on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @11:23PM (#8312526) Homepage Journal
        --I really frelling *hate* it when they pull crap like that. What do they think we are, mindreaders??

        --Another little tip for the females: (yeah right, all 3 of you who read Slashdot!)

        Ladies, BE BLUNT. Men do not take well to subtlety, and we DO RESENT IT when you apparently expected us to read your mind. Tell us in plain language what you're looking for, and kindly DON'T give us a steaming pile of shit if we end up getting you something that wasn't exactly what you wanted.

        --Try to appreciate the gift anyhow - at least we TRIED!
        • Ladies, BE BLUNT. Men do not take well to subtlety, and we DO RESEN

          Seriously, like theres any women reading your comment :) And if they are I doubt they're the type who'll be getting much for v-day heh.

    • Re:Worst gift I ever gave (Score:4, Funny)

      by corbettw ( 214229 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @01:11PM (#8305943) Journal
      Eh, you shoulda told her you knocked over a flower shop on the way home. Girls always love the bad boy.
    • One year I bought my gf flowers that I then proceeded to carry on my bicycle, which mangled them some. They weren't particularly fancy, but they were nice, or so I thought. She proceeded to complain that I had only bought her "supermarket flowers" and wasn't that terrible.

      Needless to say, she's my ex now.

      (I actually had a lovely valentine's day this year, enjoying a gourmet dinner with my sweetie, and before that helping out with same sex marriages at SF City Hall. So it can be a good day.)

    • --A sincere tip for anyone who's involved with (but not yet married to) a completely bozotic, neurotic, insane, abusive, incomprehensibly irrational and unrelenting BITCH:

      Get the Hell away from her. Get out of the relationship. Now. Leave town if you need to. Move to another *state* if you need to. But by all means, extricate yourself before it's too late!!

      --Spoken from experience. Get AWAY before she ruins your life!
  • Wow, I'd've loved to get fish as a gift! Perhaps another dragon fish [badmanstropicalfish.com] to compliment the one I have currently. I named him Smaug... those things are damn ugly, and they actually have teeth, but they're harmless.

    Of course, any other fish would have been nice. Perhaps some Kuhli Loaches, or some "bleeding heart tetras," for something more appropriate for Valentine's Day. ;)

  • A Threesome (Score:4, Interesting)

    by ONOIML8 ( 23262 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @09:26AM (#8303814) Homepage
    Strange.....but I loved it.

    No more strange than us having a threesome for the last three anniversaries though.

  • Mine left town... (Score:3, Funny)

    by docbrown42 ( 535974 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @09:34AM (#8303858) Homepage
    My wife gave me the Volume 1 Futurama dvds, along with the Clerks animated series on dvd. And then she left town to visit family.

    I wonder if she's trying to tell me something?

  • Unusual Gift: I bought her a membership in AARP (http://www.aarp.org/).

    Unusual person: She loves it, mostly due to the acknowledgement of her eligibility (age > 50).

    May you all be so lucky as to have an SO who wears the years proudly.

  • non-geek gf (Score:2, Interesting)

    by DarkViceroy ( 222229 )
    I installed this program called HappyWife [mac.com] on my girlfriend's computer. She thinks I hacked into her computer and that it was "cute." *phew*... Sometimes it pays off to have a non-geek girlfriend...

  • For my pregnant wife (Score:3, Funny)

    by kroekle ( 727040 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @10:01AM (#8304052)
    My wife is currently pregnant and has been craving macaroni & cheese, so this year I got her mac & cheese. I also gave her some other stuff, but she got a good laugh out of the mac & cheese.

  • Not a gift... (Score:2, Funny)

    by kefoo ( 254567 )
    Not quite a gift, but funny and Valentine's Day releated...

    A friend sent an ecard to everybody in our group. The computer she sent it from didn't have a Flash player installed, so all she could see was a picture of some cats in the preview. She's a cat person, so she liked the card. Late on V-day I get the card. It says "Happy Valentine's Day to the one I'll love my whole life." It was odd because she'd already turned me down for a date. Later that evening we all got together and nobody else had gotten the
  • A girlfriend! Time to change the sig.
  • I gave some of my friends these cards [youyesyou.com].
  • I work as a highschool teacher, and my family name means 'willow'. A couple of my students gave me a card from a series of Druidic tree horoscopes, this one featuring the willow.

    In the evening I had a date with a wonderful geek girl. :)

  • A dozen long-stem noses (Score:3, Funny)

    by originalhack ( 142366 ) on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @10:48AM (#8304441)
    I ordered a dozen-long stem (clown) noses from the circus world museum gift shop. She loved them and they still haven't wilted.
  • Although I guess that was technically a post-Valentine's Day present...
  • but since she knew about the tickets already (and had bought me tix to the Barenaked Ladies) I kept three Valentines day cards as a surprise. I hid them all over the house along with clues that pointed to other clues and then a card (make sense?) and then gave her the first clue with a kiss. She totally loved the game and we had a bunch of laughs and kisses. All three cards are on display on the mantle and she's told her mother, her aunt, and my mother about them and the fun she had finding them.
  • Giving renewed urgency to the phrase "Beware of Geeks bearing gifts".
  • I kid you not, altough this time it was my idea. Get a good pineapple with a large crest of green leaves. Beats a flower basket any day.

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