h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

One of my utmost problems with the holiday is not the fact that I consistently seem to have no one on Valentine's day, but everyone else's expectations for others (and myself) on that day. You're supposed to be all lovey-dovey, and sometimes you just want to fight that.
That is why my college freinds and I have made a new tradition: Goth Valentine's day. Anyone who's either single or cannot see their Love on valentine's day (almost as hard to endure as not having anybody at all) is invited to participate in the celebratory alternative. Making a spectacle of one's self by wearing downright bleak and frightening attire makes the holiday eaisier to come to terms with. Firstly, it brings the focus from romantic tendedcies to your own silliness and the silliness of others' perceptions (everyone might know that you're not really Goth, but it still freaks them out to see you dressed in that manner, especially if you're fairly conservative the rest of the year). And secondly, never underestimate the power of pure shock value to distract you. In essence, you get to play a conscious role rather than sit and watch all the romantics out there play out theirs. It gives one something to do, anyway.

That sounds cool. How clever.