Going to major extremes to get out of Valentine's Day

I am not a big fan of Valentine's Day. Any made up holiday with the sole purpose of making guys spend excessive amounts of money is not cool with me. Either some genius woman, Hallmark, a chocolate company, or a rose farm came up with it. I am convinced. I know plenty of dudes that try to come up with any excuse possible to avoid the dreaded Valentine's Day date. But some people in India are taking getting out of Valentine's Day to a major extreme.



Hardline Hindu activists protested against celebrations of St Valentine's Day in the Indian capital on Wednesday, calling them immoral and a corruption of the country's ancient civilisation.

Shiv Sena gathered in New Delhi, shouting "Down with Western culture!" and "Death to Valentine's Day!" as they waved saffron-coloured flags.

"Valentine's Day promotes obscene cards and nudity and encourages our youngsters to be publicly affectionate in parks and other places -- this is against our ancient civilisation," said Jai Bhagwan Goyal, head of Shiv Sena in the capital.

Wow... Way to go dudes... Sort of. Well, actually not really. I always thought the best way out of a Valentine's Day date was to just go radio silent, avoid all calls for a few days, and then hit the singles scene at night. Best night to meet girls- they are all super jealous of their friends getting taken out and want a man of their own. And you KNOW if they are out at the bars on Valentine's Day they are definitely single. You reduce the chance of getting the dreaded "Oh, I have a boyfriend" line at the end of the night after buying 5 drinks for her and talking to her for 2 hours to almost zero. Helloooo ladies. Jesus is single and ready to mingle.

But a full on protest, including burning Valentine's Day cards is a bit extreme. Looks like they found a new way to get out of Valentine's Day, I guess. It is not the way I would go about it, but you gotta appreciate their creativity. However, protestor dudes, I don't think that this is the best way to get yourself laid on Valentine's. You might want to reconsider this, calm down a bit and shell out the money next year. Unless your girl is really into protests and burning shit. Then you are IN!