Valentine's Day - funniest and least romantic gestures

Oh Elegran that comment about the helmet and gum shield made me laugh out loud!

I met my DH 44 years ago and we have been married for nearly 37 year. Never , in all that time has he acknowledged Valentines day. I've never minded as I think it is just another commercial date and I know he loves me every day. However today as he was leaving for work he came back and put a small heart shaped box of chocolates on the table in front of me , kissed the back of my head and said, 'see, I can still surprise you after all these years'.

We went to Paris on a February half term and ate in a lovely little restaurant on the Ile de France on Valentine's Day. DH was gazing intently across the table at me over pudding and I thought that after 35 years together he was finally going to get in touch with his romantic side. "What are you thinking?" I asked, raising the glass of fizz. He didn't even hesitate. "I just noticed how the candlelight makes your spots stand out."

Maggie
This morning my husband and I shared a kiss and a lovely warm hug in the kitchen and wished each other a happy Valentine's Day. It was enough. [contented ]

The first Valentines Day after I met my husband (in 1968) I waited expectantly for a card or maybe even flowers. What I did get was a short verse penned by him on the back of a beermat since he had been out celebrating with a pal who has his birthday on the same day. Kept it for ages until it fell to bits - the kids are always highly amused by their romantic Dad and I think that was the one and only acknowledgment of 14th Feb!

GS spent last night making chocolates (apparently there was a little set,, moulds, box,foil etc) on a new cookery mag few wks ago.....he kept saying all week that he didn't know which girl in his class to send valantines/chocolates so......... he made 15 chocs and decided to give ALL the girls in the class one although if he suddenly decided he wasn't brave enough to give them out they may still be in his bag ready to be eaten tonight!

I've posted about this before (I think)

One year when we were quite newly married, we were living in South Africa and having a barbecue on Valentine's Day for family and friends. As part of the preparations, husband had to mow the back lawn. He mowed a HUGE heart into it and I could see it from the kitchen window where I stood at the sink. And (drum roll) - he left it there for all to see, and endured the ribbing from his mates. Thinking about it now, some 30 years later, I still go weak at the knees.

My first husband came home very late one valentine's night after going straight to the pub from work. He apologised for being late and handed me a bunch of daffodils, I did wonder breifly where he got them from so late at night but went to bed thinking nothing more of it. The next morning I noticed one particularly nice daffodil that was a bit unusual and thought that I recognised it, sure enough, when I looked outside at the front garden, all my daffodils were gone! He had given me my own flowers, lol!

He Started Without Me!

On our wedding day, we had arranged to arrive separately but meet our guests before the ceremony, as it was both our second time around.

I arrived traditionally a few minutes late at the Register Office, only to find my husband to be was nowhere to be seen. The guests told me that as there was another wedding after ours, the Registrar had taken him into the ceremony room and shut the door to fill out the details, before I got there!

I knocked on the ceremony room door and walked in alone! I've never quite forgiven him for letting the registrar have her way, but don't think about it very often, thankfully. I felt a right fool and was so embarrassed and humiliated on what should have been a glorious moment.

At college in 1968 a friend asked ME to send a card to a chap SHE was keen on ! So I put my name and home address on and sent it to my mum to send on to him. He wrote back inviting me to his 21st birthday party in Corpus Christie cellars and offered to let me stay in the college. My friend was now a little worried and came clean to him so we were both invited to the party. We had to ask our hostel warden permission to go and her reply was 'No' and did we realise that Corpus Christie was AN ALL MALE COLLEGE !!!! Oh shock and horror ! We did go but had to stay at a B&B as we were such goody goodies and didn't even think of lying to the warden.
I can remember very little about it except I met a lad who was taking a degree in Arabic as he wanted to go to Cambridge and it was the course with the lowest entry requiements ! I don't think my friends budding romance went anywhere !
As for me - my ex had a job to remember my birthday so Valentines Day was not even on his radar !

Least romantic is DH stayed in bed all day and has not acknowledge it in any way. long gone are the days that Valentines Day was a day to remember why you were together, now its mostly a day of regret.

Oh, cathy (((hugs)))

DH gave me a box of nutty chocolates and some chocolate bombs to make 'real' hot chocolate. I think he understands me quite well.

My husband and are both in our 80s and have had a great day. We have our heart shaped lights everywhere,our cards to each other and had a light lunch today of boiled egg in our his and hers Valentine egg cups and matching spoons, all on our red heart shaped plates.
We tend to go all out with different things like heart shaped Valentine playing cards and this year we have added the Four in a Row game which has heart shaped slots.
In case you are wondering...yes I made a heart shaped cake this morning. We will be celebrating our59th wedding anniversary next month and send our best wishes to couples everywhere for Valentines day.

Every year I go to the supermarket the day after Valentines, and buy myself the cut price flowers! Not romantic, but I would let hubby pay the ridiculous prices they ask on the run up to the day.

I met my husband at a Valentines dance 49 years ago today. I fancied him because he looked like Billy J Kramer! Next year we will celebrate our golden anniversary.

It's not a romantic one, but a moment which made me smile. At Christmas I bought two little bare trees which had tiny lights fitted to the branches. They looked lovely on the window so I decided to leave them for a while. Wanted to make the conservatory look really special for our 'Contact the Elderly' afternoon tea party which took place exactly on Valentine's day. So - with garlands of little heart shapes draped around the bare branches, the trees looked beautiful and I was very proud of what I had achieved! Husband surveys my artwork before the event and remarks - quite thoughtfully - fancy that - I've never seen trees with red leaves.... ! It's Valentine's day - ever heard of it??? And that was that! I knew not to expect 24 red roses!

One valentines day I got an anniversary card. Our Anniversary was in September.
The excuse was he was abroad and had bought the wrong card before he left Britain without noticing.

On our 16th valentines day I got 16 long stemmed red roses. Within 2 days all the heads had fallen off. Maybe the florist did a cheap deal. hmm.

When dh and I first started seeing one another I met him at his house on Valentine's afternoon to cook a meal for us to have that night, he left me there and went back to work. After preparing the meal as far as I could and setting the table complete with small silver stars I left to pick my boys up from school and take them for a swimming lesson.

As soon as I shut the door I thought "did I turn the ring off", this thought persisted, as they do. I got the boys and then went back to the house.

It was full of smoke as I had not only left the ring on, but had left a pan with food in it on the ring. I had no key to get in so I went round to the back of the house, it was a terrace, i managed to get the back gate unlocked so i could see into the kitchen window. You couldn't see anything for the smoke, so I picked up a chair and smashed the window, climbed in, switched the ring off, climbed out again, rang him to tell him what I had done and went straight onto the swimming pool for the boys' lesson!

I have no idea why I didn't call the fire brigade

He had to scrub the walls, wash every curtain in the house and months later you could still smell the smoke.

Yesterday 14 years on, we had our meal last night with the same silver stars on the table that he rescued from the house that I nearly burned down.

When I asked DH why he did not buy me a card on Valentines,
he answered "I didn't buy anyone anything??

An aside - why are so many posters saying Valentines ? Are they in the States?

In the UK it is called Valentine's Day, and the first of January is New Year's Day, not New Years.

in 1976 Valentine's day was on a Saturday and DH and I were invited to a famous lovers fancy dress party at the house where we had first met about 5 years before. I was almost 9 months pregnant. My dad suggested we go as Mme Butterfly and Lt Pinkerton but it was too late to source the costumes so we went as 'childhood sweethearts' we were both at school when we met..I wore my maternity pinafore dress with a sash round my bump and wore a shirt and school tie plus my old battered school boater & put my hair in pigtails and DH wore my brothers school uniform with shorts and cap.

That was the last time we ever went out to celebrate Valentine's Day. DD1 was born 15 days later on Leap Year's Day!

Okay, we've opened our hearts, (and given you our embarrassing stories . Where are our prizes then, LaraGransnet?!

I received a message from GNHQ telling me that I had won a surprise book (romantic fiction) for my post on the valentine thread maggiemaybe. It arrived yesterday and is a lovely hardback by Susan Fletcher called The Silver Dark Sea.

Thank you very much Gransnet.

Well done gilly its lovely when you get something unexpected. I am using my Holiday voucher prize next week we are going away on Sunday until Wednesday.

It was worthy winner gilly ♥