Shocking Scene On Valentines Day
Posted on 3 February 2010 by Stenberg-Tendys W.L. in Humour, Society, Travel
On Valentine’s Day last year, at an exclusive restaurant in London, a couple started arguing, until the wife stood up, slapped the husband across the face and stormed off in a huff. The husband composed himself, took a few more gulps of his red wine and proceeded to call his mistress on his mobile. He spoke loud enough for everyone around to hear. Within 15 minutes an immaculately dressed young mistress turned up at the restaurant and sat down, delighted that her lover had arranged the restaurant meal especially for her on Valentine’s Day.
Just as the first course arrived the wife walked back into the restaurant. Heated words flew, culminating in the wife pouring the rest of the bottle of red wine over the husband’s head. The wife and the mistress then joined arms and left together, disgusted with the cad of a man in their lives.
The surrounding diners had sat quietly through all this, totally bewildered, but secretly impressed with how fabulously functional their own relationship was.
The twist which was reported in the newspapers a week later, is that the colourful threesome were actors hired by the restaurant, specifically to entertain the diners and make them feel grateful about the state of their own relationships.
The U.S Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentine cards are sent worldwide for February 14th. Men spending twice as much as women.
Sending a Valentine Day card is now the second-largest greeting card-sending holiday, particularly in the United States. Christmas being the largest.
St Valentine’s Day began way back in the Middle Ages as a pagan Roman holiday called Lupercalia, the hero-hunter of wolves. It is believed girls names were placed in a box and the boys drew a name out. The girl becoming their partner for the next year.
Others say that it was the murder of a Roman priest who was cruelly sentenced to death for secretly performing marriages, so that the young men would not have to join Emperor Claudius’ army.
All this may seem a million light years away from the values we hold in the 21st century, yet the idea is still the same. ‘Make a loved one feel special’.
This year you can avoid such scenes as described above, by slipping away to somewhere that has a truly romantic atmosphere. A place that will tell your loved one how much you really love him/her.
A special experience waits you at Seachange Lodge, on the tropical island of Vanuatu, in the South Pacific. (Just three hours off the east coast of Australia). Begin with VIP treatment from the airport, a bottle of chilled champagne on arrival, to luxuriating in your own private spa.
Remember you don’t have to celebrate on the 14th, you can do it later in the month. Just so long as you give the airline tickets to your lover on the Day, preferably with a card.
Waterside Chalet Seachange Lodge
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[...] The husband composed himself, took a few more gulps of his red wine and proceeded to call his mistress on his mobile. He spoke loud enough for everyone around to hear. Within 15 minutes an immaculately dressed young mistress turned up at the restaurant and sat down, delighted that her lover had arranged the restaurant meal especially for her on Valentine’s Day. Read what happens when the wife unexpectedly returns… [...]