When are romantic tokens the most meaningful to you - when you receive them in front of other people, or in privacy?
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I may be strange, but I hate to get gifts (especially on Valentine's day) in public because I feel like they're more for other people to see than for me to enjoy - even when I genuinely enjoy them! This is particularly true of flowers.
Once, I had to cancel a date because I was sick as a dog (a high fever and nausea) and my date decided that it would be a good idea to call my roommate and come over anyway to cheer me up with a bouquet of flowers. Despite the periodic vomiting. (Honestly, what was he thinking?
) There I was on the couch in my nasty sweats, covered in sick germs, trying to do some reading but really just falling asleep and waiting for it to be 8pm so that I wouldn't feel like a total wuss for going to bed... then there was a mysterious phone call in the other room that took an unusually long time for a "wrong number." Next thing I know, the dope is standing in the doorway with a bunch of flowers in hand putting on a show for my roommates. What a great guy. It got even better when he decided to sit on the couch with me to keep me company (read: awake and away from my porcelain friend) until well past midnight. I was so sick and tired that I wanted to die... and take him with me.