Saudi lovebirds must circumvent the fearsome religious police to celebrate Valentine's Day. Imagine: jailed for a Hallmark holiday!
Everyone knows that as Feb. 14 gets closer, the chances of finding a Valentine's gift or any red-colored present decrease. It's not because stores cannot meet the demand; it's because that's when the religious police begin looking for anything suggesting the holiday.
To get around this, stores begin selling the gifts weeks in advance.
Gift arrangements include teddy bears with "Love" and "Me" respectively traced on each paw, clocks and frames decorated with hearts, huge "beating" hearts fitted with blinking lights and baskets of plastic red fruits: apples, strawberries and grapes. Most come with torrid messages of love expressed in poetry.
