A Guide to Buying Valentine Gifts

Admittedly procure is too formal a word to use in a column that pretends to be funny and hilarious though so let us say to buy. Obviously this applies to hopeless romantics like me.

Please do not question the ‘hopeless romantic’ tag because I was given this adjective a while ago when my effort to win a street beauty queen went overboard. That tag stuck and at one point I actually believed it. Buying a gift, any type of gift, is never an easy process. Buying a Valentine’s gift is the most difficult thing ever. In terms of difficulty it is right there at the level of discovering a vaccine for HIV/AIDS which the world has been grappling with for close to four decades.