Today’s the day that we are reminded to observe the strongest of all the emotions, love. There’ll be literally millions of dollars spent today on roses (actually lots of other varieties of flowers, too, since the roses often sell out!), candy, cards and all kinds of other things to show our love to our people. I think it’s a good thing even though, just about like every other holiday now, it’s grown to be so commercial that it’s almost gotten out of hand. Retailers gotta love Valentine’s Day. Men are apt to lose all contact with reality when it comes to this day. We’re not the best shoppers in the world, if you know what I mean! But, it doesn’t take a ‘rocket surgeon’ to make a call and buy some roses. Problem is most of us will wait ’til the day Of……and they’re all out of the dang roses! *Don’t ask me how I know this stuff! Then it’s normal to go into total crisis mode. Instead of buying roses we’ll go and try to find some flowers of some kind only to find that they’re picked over too. So, next step is to ‘double-up’ on the big read box full of chocolates. We get the biggest one we can find, you know to make up for not gettin’ any roses. Then it’s over to the card isle to get a nice romantic card. That card isle, Heads Up!!, ……there ain’t nothing like it I’ve ever seen before. It’s the scariest sight you’ll see for awhile! There’s fifty men reachin’ and grabbin’ for a card….any card. I mean, it’s like a bunch of buzzards on roadkill. They all have a distressed, uneasy look on their face. I find it interesting that there’s not one single woman in the card area, not one! I’m guessing they might’ve done a little early shopping; just a guess. So, if you’re lucky you might find a card; gotta be real lucky to find an envelope that goes with it….but who knows, you might! (pink card with a red envelope; she’ll never notice!) It’s not unusual for a guy to try to find something else to buy for his girl…you know, ’cause he didn’t get the roses. So, all in all, it usually works out pretty good for the wife or the girlfriend. And us guys…we usually manage to bail ourselves out, somehow.

But it’s all done in the name of *“That Crazy Little Thing Called Love”!

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! ……..and good luck shoppin’ guys!

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*If you click on the highlighted link you can watch Dwight Yoakum sing the song. Nobody really does that song like Freddy Mercury but that video was a little too racy for my likin’!