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Valentine’s Day is around the corner (in case any of you men hadn’t realized it yet) and instead of talking about the wonderful love stories you usually hear about, we’re going to talk about the love disasters. According to the legends, which there are several, Valentine’s Day begun with a tragedy itself. Saint Valentine was a priest in Rome when it was ruled under Claudius II. Claudius decided that men who had wives weren’t as good of soldiers as the single men who fought for him, so he outlawed marriage for young men who served in the army. Secretly, St. Valentine defied the Emperor’s laws and continued to marry the young soldiers in private. Upon discovery, Claudius sentenced St. Valentine to death. Thus the start of Valentine’s Day- how romantic!
Although Valentine’s Day is a much happier day now, there are certainly still plenty of mishaps. Millions of things could go wrong on this day that we try to make oh-so-perfect, and sometimes they do. We’re going to talk about those stories-
One Valentine’s Day, a man in effort to be romantic for his girlfriend, was trying to serve a home cooked meal. While he was preparing the meal, he had the TV on in the background and he left the food cooking on the stove while he got distracted. As he watched the TV show (who knows what was so interesting… probably Opera) he didn’t notice that his romantic Valentine’s meal had set fire. The fire filled the kitchen with smoke and he came running to put out the disaster. Not only was his entire meal ruined but half his kitchen was damaged from the fire! (Of course, if this happens to you Rainbow International can be there for you!) Needless to say, he was forced to make last minute Valentine’s plans to avert total disaster.
Another couple was thoroughly enjoying their Valentine’s Day in their water bed and accidentally popped it! The entire room was flooded with water spouting from the deflating water bed and the couple was forced to spend the rest of their Valentine’s Day saving personal items from the flood. What a nightmare!
Personally one Valentine’s Day, my date was trying to be romantic leading me on a scavenger hunt with invisible messages written on pieces of paper all around town. The messages were written in lemon juice and to see the message I had to hold a flame under the paper for the words to show up. Aside from burning up half the papers in effort to read the message, I also managed to set my hair on fire! I spent the rest of my Valentine’s Day with a big chunk of hair burnt off the side of my head. A memorable Valentine’s Day indeed!
Hopefully this year all of your Valentine’s will go smoothly, but if not just remember you are not alone! Just know that one day you will look back on the day and have a little laugh.
