And yet you did! What nerve.

Clearly you hate when someone tells you what to do. Nobody puts baby in a corner. That's basically how I used to feel on Valentine's Day. The restaurants are completely booked, so it's off limits to those of us who didn't plan at least 4 months in advance. Should a person decide to buy flowers, as I so often do on a daily and even hourly basis, they are suddenly 3 times what they would normally cost.

Singles Day opens the door for 125,000,000 individuals who have been slighted by an exclusive holiday that underscores what they don't have. Yes, Valentine's Day is a celebration of love. But shouldn't every day be a celebration of love? In truth, it's more an excuse for the many who don't regularly recognize their love to veinly make up for it in one ultra-commercialized day.

Don't get me wrong. Money makes the business world go round, so there's nothing inherently wrong with making a little gold coin on Valentine's Day. Even pots full of gold. But the feeling one gets of exclusion, the dread that precedes Februrary 14th, may finally be erased. There is now a huge welcome sign blinking for those who had always been outside looking in. And that, in a funshell, is Singles Day.