Speaker 1: It is Valentine's Day, and we do love love, and
Speaker 1: we love hearing all the love stories. But there's a
Speaker 1: bunch of people out there that don't want to hear that.
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of people out there that are not
Speaker 1: loved up that want to hear Valentine's Day Gone wrong
Speaker 1: thirteen yeah, thirty one, oh sixty five. If you have
Speaker 1: a story about a Valentine's Day present that was horrific
Speaker 1: or Valentine's Day gone wrong, let me know. Last year,
Speaker 1: for me, I was in a very new relationship with
Speaker 1: my partner Ben. We probably only like six weeks deep,
Speaker 1: and he lives over in Scotland, so we're long distance
Speaker 1: and it's new, right, honeymoon phase, obsessive phase, you know,
Speaker 1: like want to do the best impression. So Valentine's Day comes.
Speaker 1: Last year, it's the day before it's Valentine's Day Eve,
Speaker 1: and I'm driving to work in the car with my
Speaker 1: friend and we're talking to Ben on the phone and
Speaker 1: we're just having a fun conversation. I'm like, Ben, have
Speaker 1: you ever gotten like a bad Valentine's Day present? And
Speaker 1: He's like, not really, I don't really get a present,
Speaker 1: have you? And I said, Oh, not a bad one,
Speaker 1: I said, but there are those presents that just give
Speaker 1: you the ick. You know, those presents that you're like,
Speaker 1: why do they exist? Why do people send them? I
Speaker 1: don't get it. He's like, what do you mean? It's
Speaker 1: like Teddy Bears? Dumb? Why do people send adults teddy Bears?
Speaker 1: They're juvenile, they're for children. No adults put in a
Speaker 1: collection of Teddy Bears on their bed, right, Laura.
Speaker 2: I mean some people like Teddy Bears, but they're not
Speaker 2: for me. Okay, I feel like it's any The problem
Speaker 2: is it's any traditional Valentine's Day gift, like as in
Speaker 2: and I'm talking like the real stock standard stuff like
Speaker 2: the little weird Teddy Bears you get from service stations.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I'm like Teddy Bears dumb. Uh. Flowers
Speaker 1: in a box dumb who sends a flow? And I
Speaker 1: don't thank flowers like roses that are put in a
Speaker 1: box to have protection. I'm talking about those little flowers
Speaker 1: that come in a box that's like five centimes high
Speaker 1: and the flowers just are stuck in.
Speaker 3: There that's full of water.
Speaker 2: Because you can't try out.
Speaker 1: It's very practical, not really cute flowers belong in a
Speaker 1: beautiful vase. So I just don't think those little, short,
Speaker 1: stubby flowers in a box, I don't ube them.
Speaker 3: Okay, So you're on a ranch in the car and.
Speaker 1: Then the topp I was and I was like, look,
Speaker 1: because I love flowers, I do love them, but I'm
Speaker 1: like roses. They still triggered me a little bit. I
Speaker 1: was on the Bachelor, I got dumped, you know, first
Speaker 1: person to not get picked ever, Yeah, the history of
Speaker 1: ever trigger. So I'm going on and on about this
Speaker 1: to the band. I'm like flowers in a box Teddy
Speaker 1: bears roses. He's quiet, he's quite quiet, and he's like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: think nothing of it. Valentine's Day comes the next day
Speaker 1: and I get a delivery of literally flowers in a
Speaker 1: box of roses in the shape of a giant Teddy Bear.
Speaker 1: I meet a high everything I said to Ben and
Speaker 1: I felt I've never felt worse. And I called him
Speaker 1: and I said, oh my god, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: He's like, no, you don't, I know you hate it.
Speaker 1: And I said no, no, no, no, it's actually beautiful.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna put it in my lunge room.
Speaker 1: So I had it there. Okay, I mean I witnessed
Speaker 1: this first hand. It was hideous, But also I think
Speaker 1: it's a satire. N Yeah, look, it's you don't want
Speaker 1: to criticize because like, it's so nice to get something,
Speaker 1: but if you get something that you're like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: probably gonna throw it on a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Well what do you do with it? I reckon this
Speaker 2: was satire. I think he knew and he was like,
Speaker 2: giant sized novelty teddy Bear.
Speaker 3: Flowers not in the country, so you can just dump
Speaker 3: it because he lives overseas.
Speaker 1: Okay, right, that's what I thought. So I had it
Speaker 1: up for a week because Laura came over.
Speaker 3: And she's like, what is that.
Speaker 2: I'm like, that is a monstrousity. It took out the
Speaker 2: whole middle of her dining table, like it was so
Speaker 2: over the top.
Speaker 3: But that's beautiful to grand gesture.
Speaker 2: It was a very.
Speaker 1: Grand It was beautiful gesture. Yes, and I loved the gesture.
Speaker 1: I don't want anyone to think I'm ungrateful. But after
Speaker 1: I left it, I left it for a week, then
Speaker 1: I threw it out. Then Ben calls me one day
Speaker 1: and he's like, show me how the flowers are going,
Speaker 1: and I said, oh, babe, I'm so sorry. I literally
Speaker 1: just threw them out today. They'll probably be in the
Speaker 1: ben days ago.
Speaker 3: He said they died.
Speaker 1: I said they died. I had to turn it out.
Speaker 1: And he's like, oh, but but they said that they
Speaker 1: were preserved and they last up to three months. That's
Speaker 1: why I got them for you, so you could have
Speaker 1: them long term.
Speaker 3: They were ever last day? Were there ever last chemically
Speaker 3: treated roses? I've said that, So I just.
Speaker 1: Burnt the whole thing, threw it out and he's like,
Speaker 1: he's like, you hated it?
Speaker 2: You hold on?
Speaker 3: People are calling Natalie. I'm thirteen one six five. Did
Speaker 3: this happen to you? Did you have a V Day
Speaker 3: go wrong? Oh?
Speaker 1: V Day went terribly wrong.
Speaker 3: My husband I said that I needed a new washing machine,
Speaker 3: so he gets one delivered on Valentine's.
Speaker 2: DAYE that's not kid, I love that, No, Sane.
Speaker 1: I guess you have to stay home because I'm getting
Speaker 1: the washing machine delivered.
Speaker 3: Getting something delivered with small washing machines.
Speaker 1: Oh so you even have to stay home? Nothing last ye.
Speaker 2: Nothing says love like that weekend weekend you go are
Speaker 2: you guys still married now.
Speaker 3: I love him. Happy V Day Australia, no matter what
Speaker 3: you're doing, maybe a single and actually I actually hate that.
Speaker 3: Like V Days sometimes can get you down, you know.
Speaker 1: That's why one of people's worst moments. It's like you're
Speaker 1: people at home that are like, stop being lovey dovey.
Speaker 1: You don't want to hear it if you're single.
Speaker 2: Yeah, won't there be people who were like, I'll take anything.
Speaker 2: Think about all the people who got nothing for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1: They'll be people that hate me right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like, you've got a massive thing of flowers
Speaker 2: in the shape of a teddy Bear. I would have
Speaker 2: taken a washing same