The Anti-Valentine’s Day

On the Friday a few days before Valentine’s Day, I had the following conversation with a few of my students.

Kid: You know, why do we have to have Valentine’s Day? Shouldn’t people just love each other all the time?

Other kid: Yeah! Shouldn’t we just have like a day instead where everyone is really mean to each other and then everyone would be nice to each other the other 364 days of the year?

Kid: Yeah, then people could get it out of their system or something.

Me: But what if you were born on that day? Wouldn’t it be terrible because everyone would be really mean to you on your birthday?

Kid: Hmm, yeah, I guess that’s true…

Other kid: Yeah, but you could be really mean back! It could be really fun, you know!