http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56049 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Thu, 23 May 2013 11:48:09 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56049#post-161873 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:25:27 +0000 Paddy Berzinski 161873@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Uncanny! I feel like I've been there. Stars. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56049#post-161871 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:15:33 +0000 Dick Everyman 161871@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Awww - give me <strike>your</strike>, er, her address and I'll send her something cute ;o) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56049#post-161866 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 16:56:42 +0000 roybland 161866@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Scunthorpe teen Tracey Gray (16) says she's adopting a stoical attitude to Valentine's Day as the only way to cope with the deluge of endearments and gifts she routinely expects on that day.</p> <p>'People think you're showing off if you go on about it,' said Tracey, who has thrice entered beauty contests without success, 'so I can't be bothered. It's a pain having a lot of attention from boys, but I just accept it, like.'</p> <p>Last year her Valentine's Day was ruined by the Royal Mail failing to deliver her cards and M&amp;S failing to deliver the flowers, chocolates, red roses and champagne she stayed in all day waiting for.</p> <p>The year before it was Parcelforce who badly let her down.</p> <p>Tracey, who thinks herself 'sort of pretty going-on beautiful', (she doesn't any longer have a mirror in her bedroom), is this year sending a few cards to herself, 'just to check out the postman knows what he's doing this time round'.</p> <p>She's also bought some chocolates and roses to send to 'a mate or whatever', but thinks she might not bother and instead give them to herself as a Valentine's Day surprise.</p> <p>'Come Valentine's Day, our Tracey will put a brave face on it,' said Tracey's mum. </p>