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50 Times People’s Valentine’s Day Plans Went Tragically Wrong
Roses are red
Violets are blue
If you despise V-Day
We’ve got the perfect post for you…
As exciting as holidays can be, it’s always wise to avoid putting too much pressure on any particular days. Just because the calendar says it’s February 14th doesn’t mean you need to be madly in love or plan the world’s most extravagant date. Unfortunately, Cupid can’t stop bad luck from striking any day of the year, so we’re just as prone to experiencing fails on Valentine’s Day as we are year round.
Below, we’ve gathered photos of some of the most tragic (and frankly, some hilarious) V-Day fails to remind you that this day doesn’t have to be perfect. In fact, it’s completely out of our control whether or not the day will go well, so sometimes, we just have to admit defeat! From being dumped on February 14th to receiving a box full of moldy chocolates, there are countless ways this “day of love” can quickly go awry, so be sure to upvote the pics that make you want to skip the occasion altogether.
Regardless of how you choose to celebrate, or actively avoid celebrating, we hope you pandas all have a wonderful day! And don’t forget, all of that chocolate will go on sale February 15th, so if your sweetheart doesn’t get you what you wanted, there’s no shame in picking it out yourself. And if you’re interested in viewing even more painfully tragic V-Day fails, you can find Bored Panda’s last article on the same topic right here!
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#1
She Left Me For Another Woman On Valentine's Day
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#2
You Know It's Valentine's Day When All The Ladies' Razors Are Sold Out
#3
My Nephew Drawing Valentine's "Hearts" On The Patio
#4
My Pup Decided To Help Me Get Extra Sexy For My Wife For Valentine's Day
#5
The Ice Cream Cake I Ordered For Valentine’s Day Said “I Love You” But Some Of The Letters Fell Off During Transit
#6
Not So Happy Valentine's Day
#7
Girlfriend Called Dominos To Send Me A Surprise Heart-Shape Valentine's Day Pizza While I'm On A Business Trip
#8
So, I Got My Wife A Balloon For Valentine's Day
#9
What I Found The Day After Valentine's Day
3 Trash Pandas in a Trenchcoat 3 years ago
Well... look on the bright side! Free giant teddy bear!
#10
My Cat Took My Brother's Valentine's Day Sucker
Veronica Michelle 3 years ago
You mean, “my toddler stuck his lollipop on the cat and is now mad about it”
#11
Went To Panda Express With My Girlfriend For Valentine's Day
#12
Parcel Thief Has Ruined My Valentine’s Day
Will Cable 3 years ago
To the person who posted the other day about finding a dildo on your Jeep, now you know where it came from.
#13
My Friend Owns A Florist Shop, And She Posted Her And Her Employees' Hands From The Week Of Valentine's Day
#14
Our Valentine’s Day In China: Corona Beer, Coronation Chicken, Pandemic Board Game, Contagion Movie
LoneTomato 3 years ago
I mean at least they're making the most of it and keeping their sense of humor
#15
Happy Valentine’s Day. When Your Sweet Husband Thinks He Should Hide Flowers Overnight In The Car. Guess Whose Roses Froze And Are Sitting In An Ice Block
Thankful for my silly man.
#16
Valentine's Day Peti From My Daughter. Bloody Massacre
#17
Coworkers Made Each Other Paper Hearts For Valentine's Day And I’m Literally The Only One In My 12-Person Office That Didn’t Have One Made For Them
Some people even have multiple… Awkward.
#18
Beautiful Flowers I Got My Wife From Pro Flowers For Valentine's Day
#19
For Valentine's Day, My Wife Gave Me A Bath Bomb Called Luna. Pretty Sure They Should Have Called It Water Birth
#20
Went To The Grand Canyon For Valentine's Day. It Was Awesome
Soph the Loaf 3 years ago
Funny, I once had a dream in which I hiked in the Grand Canyon, but it was snowy and very overcast like this picture. I've been to the canyon before, but never in inclement weather...
#21
My Partner And I Both Got Food Poisoning On Valentine's Day. I Had Bad Sushi, And My Girlfriend Accidentally Had Gluten. We're Taking Turns In The Hotel's Bathroom
#22
My Kid Got This In A Valentine's Day Goodie Bag At School. It's A Crayon
#23
Well, That Was A Quick Valentine's Day
#24
So 1800 Flowers Forgot To Include Flowers In My Order. Now They Refuse To Refund Me My Money
Soph the Loaf 3 years ago
1-800 VasesandPackaging.com - your prime destination for only the finest styrofoam nuggets, with a free flower food packet included!
#25
Where Are You Tammy?
#26
The Valet Driver For The Hotel I Stayed At With My Girlfriend For Valentine’s Day Decided To Take My Car For A Joy Ride
After tipping him he specifically said, “don’t worry, I got your baby”. Then he proceed to run my car up a curb later that day.
3 Trash Pandas in a Trenchcoat 3 years ago (edited)
He did not in fact, have your baby. (Edit: that sounded wrong)
#27
Just Got My Valentine’s Day Gift. Thank You Shari’s Berries And UPS
#28
A Failed Confession On Valentine's Day
#29
For Our Valentine's Tea, My Little Girls Wanted Chicken Nuggets. I Made These From Scratch. They Were Supposed To Be Love Hearts
Amanda Fondaumiere 3 years ago
Still cute, and im sure they dont care about the shape too much.
#30
This Is What I Walked Into On Valentine's Day
Yes, robbed. I left for dinner and came back to this. Everything was taken out and thrown on the floor. I also carried stuff from my small family business, so the estimated loss was over $6000+. I also can't find my used underwear and some of my clothes.
AbsintheMinded 3 years ago (edited)
Used underwear?? Gross! Maybe it was a stalker that staged a robbery just to get to your intimates? If you can afford too, get cameras installed so you can see who’s lurking around. The fact that it happened during your little dinner outing, implies someone was probably watching you. Please Stay safe!
#31
My Cat Waking Me Up In The Middle Of The Night For Me To Discover He Ate The Rose Buds Off My Valentine's Plant I Got Myself
#32
Happy Valentine's Day Weekend From The Restaurant Industry
RavenTheCat 3 years ago
Yeah , be sure to thank your cleaning staff people we're the ones who literally deal with this stuff And I say thank you to everyone who does any form of work on any holiday
#33
Happy Valentine's Day Pizza Pack
#34
Bought My Wife This Valentine's Day Basket From A Local Homeschooled Kid, Completely Forgetting That She Started The Keto Diet The Day Before
#35
Girlfriend Bought A Valentine's Day Gift Box For Me And Was Not Too Happy
#36
I Made This Cake For Valentine's Day, And My Boyfriend Hasn't Showed Up. If He Keeps Saying He'll Come The Next Day And Then Cancel, I'm Gonna Have To Throw It Away
#37
It's The Thought That Counts, Right?
3 Trash Pandas in a Trenchcoat 3 years ago
We've learned from this post that heartshaped pizzas seem to be difficult to make.
#38
Got A Hotel For SO, With A Valentine's Special Package, And They Had The TV Frozen On Biden Staring At You
#39
My Friend, One Of The Nicest People I Know, Waited On A Couple On Valentine's. They Left Him This
Crazy Cookie 3 years ago
Am I wrong or did the people who left the note really jump to conclusions and make it a racial thing for no reason?
#40
Getting Plowed On Valentine's Day
Joolee 3 years ago (edited)
Wow that looks challenging! Valentines Day is during the height of summer here. I reckon summer is the correct season for romance. Strawberries are in season, flowers are blooming and beach picnics with your beloved while watching the sunset late in the evening are perfect.
#41
There Was An Attempt To Make A Romantic Valentine's Dinner
#42
My Valentine's-Themed School Lunch
#43
Copying A Supermarket Best Seller To Impress Your Husband On Valentine's Day
#44
Expectation: Cute Red Handprint Valentine From The Baby. Reality: Accidental Horror Valentine I Probably Won't Be Sent To The Grandparents
#45
The Canvas For My Partner's Valentine's Day Gift Arrived Today
Soph the Loaf 3 years ago
Yikes... what a waste of a perfectly fine, and probably not cheap, canvas.
#46
Casually Cooking Valentine's Day Dinner
#47
I'm Working Late Tomorrow And Thursday So Putting In Some Early Work For Valentine's Day. Top-Notch Effort On The Heart-Shaped Balloons ASDA
#48
Hired A House Cleaner To Surprise The Wife For Valentine’s Day. Cleaner “Cleaned” My Cast Iron
#49
Bought A Single $4 Rose To Brighten Up My Desk For Valentine's Day, And Tried To Remove The Inexplicable Tag
#50
Valentine's Day Flowers. Reality vs. Product Photo
#51
These Valentine’s Day Chocolates
#52
Valentine’s Day Value
#53
Valentine's Day Pizza Heart. I Ended Up Eating It Alone
#54
Father Ghosts Girlfriend Of 7 Years And His 2-Year-Old Son One Day Before Valentine’s Day
#55
Valentine's Day Surprise
The main drain taking water and waste out of our house clogged and came up through the floor drain in our laundry room. All flooring, some cabinets and parts of walls must go.
AbsintheMinded 3 years ago
Aw that sucks so much. I’ve been there, & feel for you. Hope the renos go okay.
#56
Spending Valentine's Day In The Hospital
I have a bone condition in which my bones are weak. I'll need an IV to pump medicine for a day so nothing too major. It just sucks that it's on Valentine's day.
#57
My Wife Had To Return The Flowers I Had Delivered For Her For Valentine's Day
#58
The Valentine's Day Strawberries I Bought For My Wife. They Had Leaked Berry Juice Everywhere And Destroyed The Box They Came In Due To Improper Packaging
Smelled like rotting fruit…
#59
My Boyfriend Ordered Me Flowers For Valentine’s Day
#60
Well, Someone’s Having A Bad Valentine's Day
#61
What My Dog Did To My Mum's Valentine's Gift
#62
Ordered The Heart-Shaped Pizza For Valentine's Day
Joshua David 3 years ago
So you basically get a full price pizza sans on piece? Great profit marketing right there. Shady af tho.
#63
Notice The Little Burnt Piece Of Bacon. My Valentine Is Sweet Enough To Tell Me It's Great. It's The Thought That Counts Anyways
#64
I Started My First Valentine's Day Single In 7 Years With 53 Stitches On The Sole Of My Foot
#65
Valentine's Day Breakfast Was Ruined By Accidentally Leaving The Jug On A Hot Hob. It Melted The Bottom And Exploded
#66
All The Valentine's Day Cakes Expire Before Valentine's Day
#67
Valentine's Flowers From Bouqs
#68
Happy Valentine's Day
#69
Happy Valentine's Day. My Girlfriend Still Loved Them. She's A Keeper
#70
Valentine’s Day Was Fun
Sliced my finger open while cutting bread for dinner. One hour later at the VA ER and three stitches later I am all good. Ended the night with the fiancé at Wendy’s, cause ya know you gotta make them feel special.
Doctor Strange 3 years ago
At least you had someone with you in the ER. Last time I ended up in the ICU, not a single one of my friends visited me. And I have no loved one, so no girlfriend and certainly no fiance to be there with me when I was literally dying in the hospital. (The ER staff honestly didn't expect me to make it. They said if I had waited even an hour more I Definitely would not have made it).
#71
Someone Hit And Run With My Parked Car Tonight. Happy Valentine’s Day
#72
Broke My Leg On The First Day Of Work After Cny, My House Is On Top Of A 200 Steps Hill. Planned To Celebrate Valentine's Day With My Girlfriend Tomorrow
#73
For Valentine's Day This Year, My House Got Laid By A Tree
#74
My School Trying To Push Me To Do Things While I Sit Alone At The Lunch Table On Valentine's Day
The lesbian knitting panda 3 years ago
my school used to make valentine's day chocolate things with marshmallows chocolate and sweetened pizza dough. It was... interesting.
#75
That Is Not A Heart And That Is Not A Pepperoni Pizza
ISeeWendiGo 3 years ago
Put the heart pizza on top of the pepperoni pizza and have a backdrop for the heart. Plus you now have more pepperoni pizza than if the heart shaped one was correct. I see no problem!
#76
My Roommate’s Family Sent Her A Valentine’s Day Gift From Across The Country
#77
Wife Combined Valentine's And Easter Candy (M&M's, Choc Eggs, Skittles, Jelly Beans, Gummies, Hearts)
#78
Happy Valentine's Day. I'm Single, And I Have Food Poisoning
#80
My Dad Bought Roses For My Mom For Valentine’s Day And When He Got Home And Took Off The Wrapper All The Leaves And Petals Just Fell Off. Luckily, He Got His Money Back
#81
My Girlfriend's Beautiful $67 Valentine's Bouquet From FTD
#82
Happy Valentine’s Day
Rena 3 years ago
We started our relationship 22 years ago - we have loads of memories together. One we remember fondly and that always makes us laugh is the evening something similar happend to us and we figuered out how to open a wine bottle without a corkscrew (no youtube available in good old times). It is a miracle that nobody was harmed and even the appartment stayed clean.
#83
When You're In The Middle Of The Valentine's Dinner Rush
#84
My Neighbor Masoud Is Having A Cracking Valentine's Day
#85
I Bought A “Heart-Shaped Cake” For Valentine’s Day And When We Went To Cut Into It We Found 3 Cupcakes With The Wrappers Still On Smothered In Icing
#86
Ruined Valentine's Dinner, Already Added It To The Dish
#88
While Snuffing Out The Last Candle I Bumped It And Splattered Hot Wax Everywhere. Happy Valentine's Day, Honey
#89
Valentine's Day Mix-Up
#90
"Heart-Shaped" Valentine's Day Pizza
#91
Our "Heart-Shaped" Pizza From The Pizza Hotline (I Don't Know What I Expected)
#92
Husband Tried To Order Flowers For Valentine’s Day Via Instacart. This Is What We Got
#93
Hit A Pothole Pulling Into A Parking Spot For My Valentine's Date. Curb Ripped My Bumper Right Off
#94
Posted 2 Days Before Valentine's Day On The Local Marketplace
#95
I Baked Some Valentine's Day Muffins For My Husband Today
#96
This Would’ve Been $10 Before Valentine's Day
#97
Well, I Tried To Be Romantic For Valentine's Day
#98
Valentine's Sweetest Love
#99
Tried To Make A Cake For Valentine’s Day With The Kissy Emoji Face. It Melted And Ended Up Looking Like It Was Crying And Spitting
#100
So Much For My Valentine's Dinner Leftovers
#101
Empty Candy Bag On Valentine's Day
#102
Wife's Wheelchair Broke At 5 Pm The Friday Before Valentine's Day
#103
Knew I Wasn’t Getting Any Chocolate For Valentine's Day So I Bought Myself A Candy Bar On My Way Out Of The Grocery Store Today. Someone Had Squished The Whole Thing
#104
My Mom Wrote On My Dad's Red Valentine's Card Envelope With A Red Pen
#105
One Of The Valentine's Candies I Bought My Wife. She Just Opened That One Today
Sonja 3 years ago
The next time people complain about people trying to save the environment: the European laws against wasteful packaging also reduced scams like this! So while they can argue that the net weight is on the package and it's ultimately your own fault for expecting more inside, there's no escaping the argument that this is wasteful packaging and bad for the environment! And as soon as regulations on packaging are enforced, this nonsense comes to an end too.
#106
The Water Is Being Shut Off All Night In My Building. On Valentine's Day
#107
Valentine’s Day Didn’t Work Out For Someone
Stardust she/her 3 years ago
Or maybe they got distracted talking with their partner and forgot it when they were going somewhere away from there?
#108
So We Bought This Cake For Valentine’s Day. My Dad Had To Be A Jerk And Cut It Like This... Let’s Just Say People Were Pretty Mad
#109
To Make Heart-Shaped Cookies
#110
Part Of The Flowers I Ordered Online. Happy Valentine's Day
#111
Spent $70 For Valentine's Flowers For My Wife, Received A Far Inferior Product Than The Advertisement
Verena 3 years ago (edited)
They will look fine within a day or two. Tulips always look sad when freshly cut. If not, they are too far in the blooming and will be dead within days. Special attention for tulips: Cut the stems horizontal and put them in lots of cold water, they are binge drinkers. Cheers from Holland. PS: They need the space to be able to fully open. PPS: Of course the pictures on the websites show flowers in bloom ... and send flowers which are not blooming yet. Anybody can guess why?
#112
Happy Valentine’s Day. My Bulletin Board Fell Over And Broke My Glasses Which I’m Blind Without In The Middle Of The Night
#113
Someone's Valentine's Didn't Go Well
#114
To Do A Cute Activity For Valentine’s Day
#115
How My Valentine's Gift Came Out. Tried Using A Spoon It Was Glued To The Side, Couldn't Get It Off In One Piece
#116
Papa John's Valentine's Day Special "Heart"-Shaped Pizza
#117
Wanted To Get Into The Valentine's Day Spirit
#118
So Some Valentine's Cupcakes Got Spilt On Me
#119
When Valentine’s Day Comes Around
#120
The Bottom Light Bulb Went Out. On Valentine’s Day
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What do you think ?
The crushinator 3 years ago (edited)
Most of these make me sad because it's just a bunch more balloons and plastic glitter rubbish added to the environment for nothing. I feel bad for the spilled meal people though ':)
𝖊𝖆 3 years ago
Think the moral of this is not to buy into the valentines hype. Save your money, the mark-up is ridiculous. Show your partner you love them with little things every now and then when it’s not expected, rather than one showy gesture. Also there’s too much pressure to have a perfect valentines and it seems things rarely go to plan. OR pick a totally random day to celebrate valentines so you can get flowers or cakes or go for a nice meal without the expectations or expensive prices. That being said, I don’t know why I clicked this post. I am nearly 30 and have never not been single on valentines :(
Tomato Smudge 3 years ago
Usually I get raspberries and different varieties of chocolate chips (dark, milk, white, gluten-free, etc...) to put into the raspberry pits for minimal mistakes when it comes to sweets 😱
The crushinator 3 years ago (edited)
Most of these make me sad because it's just a bunch more balloons and plastic glitter rubbish added to the environment for nothing. I feel bad for the spilled meal people though ':)
𝖊𝖆 3 years ago
Think the moral of this is not to buy into the valentines hype. Save your money, the mark-up is ridiculous. Show your partner you love them with little things every now and then when it’s not expected, rather than one showy gesture. Also there’s too much pressure to have a perfect valentines and it seems things rarely go to plan. OR pick a totally random day to celebrate valentines so you can get flowers or cakes or go for a nice meal without the expectations or expensive prices. That being said, I don’t know why I clicked this post. I am nearly 30 and have never not been single on valentines :(
Tomato Smudge 3 years ago
Usually I get raspberries and different varieties of chocolate chips (dark, milk, white, gluten-free, etc...) to put into the raspberry pits for minimal mistakes when it comes to sweets 😱
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