I met this lady who said "are you going to be celebrating valentines day?" and i said "not particularly, no" and she said "but its a hallmark holiday!!" and i thought "what the ..??"

i mean, if a commercial playing-on-emotions card producer corporation endorses a holiday, it becomes special?? or maybe hallmark means something else, and im just such a bloody consumer that i dont know what exactly it means..

anyways, yeah so that just really bugged me. Those people working at hallmark have no clue whats going on in individual consumers' lives and somehow these very consumers call their special day a "hallmark holiday"?! mind you, valentines day has become every retail store owners dream come true what with all the emphases on "get her/him chocolates/card/jewellery/something!"
sigh...