Valentine's Day (Intro + part I)

VALENTINE'S DAY (Intro + part I) 

Originally by Sinclair Nicholas, adapted by Mr. Milan Šácha.

Valentine's day is the holiday for romantic love. It has been for a very long time. What happens on Valentine's day is that everyone sends cards to each other. The cards say, "Happy Valentine's Day," or "Will you be my valentine?" People also buy heart-shaped candy that says stuff like, "You're Sweet," or "True Love," and they give it to the people they love.

For some reason, guys are supposed to give flowers to their girlfriends or/and wives, but a lot of them are too busy making money to remember, so a lot of them are made to feel guilty on Valentine's day. A lot of lovers end up having fights. Girls cry and yell at their boyfriends as if the poor guys' failure to remember a silly holiday somehow proved that they didn't care about their girlfriends any more.

                      the cards say = na těch přáních je napsáno
                      heart-shaped = ve tvaru srdce
                      stuff like = věci jako / něco jako
                      feel guilty = cítit se provinile
                      yell at sb. = křičet na někoho
                      as if = jako by
                      failure = neúspěch

I don't like the holiday at all, but the reason I don't is not because I have had fights with past lovers on that day. My dislike goes much further back, into childhood. I've been thinking back to this memory every Valentine's day since I was nine. I did something that I wish I hadn't.

In elementary school the children all must give each other Valentine's day cards. You're supposed to write something nice and then sign your name.

There was this one girl in our class named Esther Benson whom everyone teased because she was stupid and ugly. Her teeth were big and kind of green, she had trouble reading, and kids wouldn't sit next to her because she smelled like pee. In fact, one time she peed right there in the classroom, peed all over like a poorly trained dog.

But I am getting away from my story. The night before Valentine's day me and my friends Donny and Mike decided that we would write horrible things on our cards to Esther and not sign our names. 

I wrote "Brush your ugly teeth," and I didn't sign it.