Valentines Day buffoonery

Which heart are you?
Valentines Day is days away so the stores have been filled with the usual red, pink and white cards, candies, bags and bears. What is a little new (to me at least) is the abundance of the color black. What is not surprising is that the selection of masculine Valentines Day items are in major demand and sell out way faster than the pinkest of the pink items. Now that of course is because of two main reasons: The women gifts come in a much heavier shipment and men buy gifts at the very last minute. That is the few men who don't dump their girlfriends before the "holiday."

Bet you didn't know this my faithful Chicago friends, Sweetest Day (or Sweeties Day as I call it) is not known outside of the midwest. Yep, me and all my Chicago friends were at work saying Happy Sweetest Day and these Georgian's had no clue what we were talking about.

Sweetest Day was founded October 8, 1921 in Cleveland, Ohio by Herbert Birch Kingston who was a local candy company employee. His purpose was to bring cheer and some happiness to the lives of those who were often forgotten.Celebrated on the third Saturday in October, we were raised on the basis that is was a Hallmark holiday, the male version of Valentines Day when in actuality it was a day solely created by a candy company employee to increase sales of sweets.

So ladies, instead of bombarding your local Walmart for black bags to conceal a gift for your boy, try whispering sweet nothing into your state's ear about Sweetest Day so we can have Valentines Day all to ourselves again. 

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