My Valentine's Day
- Valentine’s Day. The day where people show their loved ones exactly how much they love each other through candy and other such goods. These goods cost money. And you preferably have to have a girlfriend to give these goods to. As I didn’t have any money, nor a girlfriend, Valentine’s Day looked like a bummer for me. But it wasn’t. Here’s why:
- First of all, I had to get some money. People always say that there’s no way to earn money quick and easy. That’s not true. You just have to know where to get them. Which I didn’t. But I did know something else. That I could borrow some from my mom.
- Me: Mom, could I borrow some money from you?
- Mom: For what exactly?
- Me: Well, Valentine’s Day’s coming up...
- Mom: And?
- Me: And I heard chicks dig chocolate. Chocolate cost money.
- Mom: Uhm, okay, but... You don’t have a girlfriend?
- Me: Why do you always have to focus on such minor details mom? Will you borrow me the money or not?
- Mom: The last time I borrowed you money you came home with two donkeys, a drill, a large bucket of white paint, and twelve drunk dwarfs. Do you really think I will borrow you money again?
- Me: Look mom, I promise I won’t contact those dwarfs again. I really need these money. Will you please just give me a second chance? Don’t you want me to get laid here on Valentine’s Day?
- Me: Mom?
- Me: Mom, are you there?
- Okay, so that didn’t work out. I thought my glorious quest for having a successful Valentine’s Day would end here. It didn’t. It turned out my grandma would more than happily provide me with the necessary money. The “don’t you want me to get laid” argument worked a lot better on her. She even gave me some condoms. Weird. But now that I had some money, the next thing I had to do was to buy some chocolate. Not just some cheap discount stuff, but some really good quality stuff. Getting this turned out to be just as hard as getting some money.
- You see, apparently is the place where you get crystal meth not the same place where you can get quality chocolate. Nor is the place where you buy those cheap movies, in which you get the movie ruined because there’s constantly people talking, babies crying, and people standing up to go to the toilet. And last of all, the schizophrenic hobo on the corner of your street from which you buy car radios and dead cats is certainly not the guy to buy quality chocolate from. And unfortunately, after being in all these places, they won’t let you come inside in the stores where you can actually buy some quality crystal meth. I mean chocolate.
- As it turned out, I had to be satisfied with having a purple teddybear missing and arm and two eyes, a best-of cd with Slayer and twenty-two glow sticks to give to my chosen one. It cost me 135 dollars. Don’t ask.
- Now that I at least had some sort of gift, it was finally time to find my chosen one. This wasn’t exactly an easy task either. As it turned out, I had a restraining order from no more than half the girls in the town. And that apparently included my own mom. Weird. But that didn’t stop me. Eagerly, yet anxiously, I did what only the most desperate souls do. I went speed-dating.
- Me: Hi there!
- Girl #1: Why are you holding 5 glow sticks in each hand?
- Me: They are for you. I got twelve more in my pants. Do you want them?
- Me: Oh, leaving already? We still have a whole minute of time left!
- Me: Do you like Slayer?
- Girl #2: No.
- Me: Oh, okay. You can go now then.
- Me: Has anybody told you how beautifully your eyes shine tonight?
- Girl #3: Has anybody told you there’s a deformed purple teddybear attached to your neck?
- Me: There has been a few who’s noticed that, yes. Would you be my girlfriend if I gave it to you?
- Girl #3: No.
- Me: Oh, okay. What if I told you it has cost me 50 dollars?
- Girl #3: Then I would call you the dumbest person in the world.
- Me: Okay, lucky it didn’t then. It cost me 70 dollars.
- Girl #3: Don’t make me call the cops.
- Okay, so speed-dating didn’t turn out to be that much a success. Seeing as all my efforts throughout the day would be for no use whatsoever, I was devastated. And even more than that, I was heartbroken now that I realized I had to spend Valentine’s Day alone. I needed a miracle. And I got one. Or, to be more precise, I got a 440 pound black woman named Boris, who I met in the park for sad, lonely persons needing a hug. She loved Slayer. And punching me for no reason whatsoever while eating butter with a spoon. Lucky me.