the kid’s a romantic without any romance

Roses, chocolates, cards, anything in the shape of a heart and pretty much any way to transform your love into a bit more lust. It’s an absolute dream day for florists and other retailers who can bump up prices to sell products that the majority of people look past on any other given day.

Why people can’t show their love and affection on any day without having to be reminded or told I do not understand however to skip out on acknowledging this day and not conforming to its procedures if you’re in a relationship can often end badly.

For anybody who is not in a relationship, Valentine’s Day is a twenty-four hour reminder of the love they don’t have and therefore refer to it as Single’s Awareness Day or as I’ve decided to term it this year Friendzone Day. To be in the ‘friendzone’, one has to have been placed there by a female (or male, although more rare than getting through a session of reading without having to scoot back a few pages to reread from where you stopped concentrating) and have acted in a manner that makes them say let’s just be friends. I know of only a few people who have ever been able to get out of the friendzone and when they do it’s bloody astonishing and well-worth a pat on the shoulder and head nod of acknowledgment. 

a really old lady made these roses out of napkins for the wedding tonight

For the third year in a row, my manager has assumed I have no plans by rostering me on to do a wedding tonight which in itself is so bloody cliché. Love the vote of confidence from him even though he presumed correctly. At least I’ll get a few dollars in the pocket but hopefully not these dollars as the old saying goes ‘money talks’.

This year I am again taking on the role of Cupid, except a slightly more lean version that has experienced puberty, delivering flowers for mates that aren’t in the country. Rocking up to a girls house with a bunch of flowers, knowing she isn’t single, and knocking on the door to be greeted by somebody else in the family (because the person you intend to speak to is never the one to answer the door) can be quite awkward. Until the situation is understood by everybody it feels as though I’m cutting my mate’s grass.

Happy Friendzone Day x