A Friday Chat About—You Guessed It—Valentine’s Day
Nicole Dieker
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So in a shocking turn of events I’m not a Valentine’s day person but my favorite Vday was probably 2008ish? I was single as hell, and in Boston with a fellow grad student for a AAAS conference. I want to say I didn’t even realize it was Valentine’s day, but I can’t swear to that detail. Anyway we had some huge per-diem and we were like “let’s go out somewhere fancy for dinner” and asked the front desk where we should go. My friend from college also met us, so there was 3 girls super not dressed up in this restaurant that ended up being totally fancy and of course full of dressed up couples. So we already had a huge case of the giggles like for feeling super out of place? And then at some point a dude in a tux came around and gave every woman in the place a long stem red rose. Which only lead to further uncomfortable giggles. We went out drinking after that and at some point lost the roses but thinking about it makes me want to uncomfortably giggle in a good way. Or really go out with two ladies and carry long stem roses around?