Every year around the world on the fourteenth of February people exchange secret cards and chocolates and skimpy clothing with someone they love. Readers certainly will no doubt be aware that the origins of Valentine’s Day date back to the time when – after a debauched time at Christmas and New Year – both women and men would become aware that a child was about to enter their lives and behave in an entirely non-altruistic fashion and pledge their love to each other…
There is a little known antithesis to Valentine’s day, which is called Anti-Valentine’s day. It is always celebrated on the thirteenth day of February, usually a gift is not involved but a card with an insulting poem always is. It is the authors hope that this brilliant but otherwise ignored event becomes as big a marketing deal as Valentine’s day has become, with printed cards in the shops and messages in newspapers all sent between unhappy couples, spurned lovers, and the disaffected everywhere. As there is so much despondency in the world why not celebrate it?
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