While this has happened, I never really felt bad about it, because "Well, they should have just made it obvious." In retrospect I think that attitude has come from just not understanding what they were feeling.
Worst: Mild confusion, followed by "Right, so what i'm hearing is you don't want to date Pikachu." (I used the Jaiden video to help explain what it was.) Honestly mildly amusing all in all.
Best: Oh, that makes so much sense.
You litterally write posts and talk to people about valentines day in abstract, and at no point do you actually realise its valentines day, and theres a reason people are talking about it.
It took me like 5 attempts to read college not collegue. But I agree on the institution being preferable.
Is it me or is it weird how commercialised valentines is? Like, even if I wasnt Aro, I dont think I would welcome random places sending me valentines.