Valentines Day and Target

I stopped in at my local Target this afternoon to pick a few things up.  When I walked in the store, it was Valentines Day mayhem! Hearts, pink, and red everywhere, not to mention the shoppers on some kind of mission to find the perfect Valentines Day gift or card there.  I must admit that there were a few Valentines Day things on my list too, but it was different.  The people in the store had that "look" in their eyes, like it was black Friday or something!  I'm not a debbie downer, I love every holiday as much or even more than most people, but Target shoppers today were silly.  I started in the card isle, bad idea.  There were 5 men standing back as far as possible from the cards, trying to find the perfect card.  Let me just tell you, it wasn't there!  The cards were awful!  As I stood there, surrounded by men, whose hands were all on their chins, as if contemplating which card would be alright for their person, I laughed when reading the cards.  Some of them were so long, I got bored reading them!  Others were so dumb, I don't even know how they made it into production. AND they way the care are categorized, please.  An example of a romantic card was, "not even all the heart shaped chocolates in the world could measure up to your sweetness."  I'm sorry, but I don't find that romantic in the least bit.  After finally finding a card that was not completely ridiculous, I picked up a few other items I needed, and ended up in THE Valentines Day section of the store.  It was crawling with people and their children shopping for the all important Valentines Day parties at school on Monday.  While looking at candy, a little girl about 10 and her mother walked up and she PROCLAIMED---"We're only giving everyone 1!  Look at this pack it comes in 8's, what kids really want is 8!" Her mother then reminded her that they were also including cupcakes and other candy.  When hearing that, the girl sighed and said, "Well I think we should still give 8!"  I just had to tell someone, since my hubby is playing xbox.  Well I guess I didn't tell anyone, at least I wrote it down.  After my adventure all over Target, I finally reached the checkout and there were shopping carts EVERYWHERE!  People had not been putting them back, ok not a big deal to me, but then there were Target employees standing around the bathroom talking to each other looking at the carts.  I'm not positive, but I think it's their job to put them back in a somewhat orderly manner.  I love Target, and have been quite happy with how friendly and helpful our Target employees here in KC are, but it was a MESS in there today!  On a side note, there is a guy who works at a Target we go to every once in a while (because it's not across the street from us like OUR Target is) and his name is FRIEND.  Weird right?  When we first saw it, we thought it was not his name, but they were paging him and he said, "My name is Friend, can I help you find something?"  So there you have it, Friend works at a Target near me :)