Evil Greeting Card Companies

I was shopping for a greeting card today, and stumbled across this sign

The greeting card companies have realized – ha, Valentine’s Day worked, lets just do the SAME THING in October! I know, this will never catch on right? This is probably exactly how people felt about Valentine’s Day. Then one or two guys cave, and those girls tell their friends what their boy did, and then more guys have to do it in order to not look bad, and then we end up with another V-day. Just an excuse for more profit for the candy and greeting card companies.

Think I’m crazy check out this quote from the Wikipedia entry about the “hallmark holiday”

The origin of Sweetest Day is frequently attributed to candy company employee Herbert Birch Kingston as an act of philanthropy.

A candy company employee made it up. Genius.