my funny valentine | 2002-02-15 - 9:25 p.m.


Did you observe Valentine's Day ayer? Yo, tambien. Es decir, I observed it like you might observe a Britney Spears video, with equal parts bewilderment, rancor, and longing.

All around me, por todas partes, were reminders of what a complete outsider I am to the baffling yet alluring mundo de amor. Gente de ambos sexos walking las calles with pink carnations in their hands. Canciones like "Feel Like Makin' Love" and "Sometimes When We Touch" on the oldies estation. Excepcionalmente high traffic at the liquor store across the street from Curly's.

So, did I take the day off to commemorate el d�a de San Valent�n? �Hombre, que no! It is a sad fact that Lotfi, el due�o of Curly's Pie Hole, doesn't observe medio-holidays like cumplea�os o Valentine's Day. Whether you're scheduled to work the day of your daughter's quincea�era or the day of our Lord's crucifixion, you show up or you're history, unless you can convencer some other lameass to work your shift for you.

Working Curly's on Valentine's Day evening wasn't especialmente rom�ntico, as you may have surmised, although one of the bus boys did try to hit on me. In retrospect, I think he was pretty high on algo, because he kept giggling and muttering something about glue. De todos modos, I did my best to discourage him from his reckless advances; he is nearly half my height and probablemente half my age, and the thought of us together was -- and still is -- as biologically disturbing as that of a chihuahua doing a greyhound.

(I am the greyhound!)

Besides, who needs a man when life affords so many other avenidas of satisfaction? For mi placer, it appears I need look no further than las revistas in the 'Lectric Washouse.

I find �sta foto, culled from "Parent" magazine, especialmente apetitosa, �don't you?

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