Wal-Mart - a huge Valentine's Day cliche

On Thursday I joined the throngs of people who had to make a list-minute dash to Wal-Mart on Valentine's Day, and really it was hilarious. I was picking up ingredients for dinner, so the aisles I needed really weren't that crowded, which was nice. But while looking at the cards I saw a man and woman standing there as well, and the man was holding a bright red teddie. Yeah, gross. Guys were everywhere, trying to find a good bouquet from the already picked-over flowers. Some of the guys had balloons, and this kind of cracks me up. A balloon in and of itself - why is this considered a gift? Then as I was walking to my car in the parking lot, I saw the final cliche: a guy literally running through the parking lot towards the store, obviously in a huge hurry to pick up something, anything, that would count as an acceptable gift. At this point I started laughing.