PRINTStreetside Chatter: Valentine's Day Massacres
Vox asks Columbians about love lost on Cupid’s biggest day of the year
February 14, 2008 | 12:00 a.m. CST
“I used to work in a jewelry store, so I always had to work on Valentine’s Day. For 12 years, my wife and I never got to do anything for Valentine’s Day.”
— John Garrett
“In seventh grade, this creepy boy I didn’t even know gave me a tennis bracelet.”
— Meaghan Gunn
“You asked the wrong person. I don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day. I don’t believe in it.”
— Tracy Borengasser
“When I was in middle school, you could buy flowers for a dollar and send them to somebody. I guess nobody liked me, so I sent them to myself.”
— Kaitlyn O’neill
“I want something like clothing or a sexy negligee, or take me out to eat or something, but hell no, don’t give me flowers! For future boyfriends, do not give me flowers!”
— Terri Thompson
