Interesting Tidibts: White Day

Happy White Day, everybody!

 Oh, where you unaware? You don't know what White Day is, you say?

I don't think this quite gets my good side.

  Everyone knows White Day is the second part to Valentine's Day, of course. At least, here in Japan it is. Allow me to explain how it all works in this country.
 You see, on Valentine's Day, in Japan, women give chocolate to men. That's just the way it is. Hell, women even give chocolate to men they don't even like, labeled as giri choko, or obligation chocolate. It's a trend that's seen in most workplaces. Even I received chocolate from the kids during my otherwise not very eventful Valentine's Day.
 But you see, it goes a step deeper than that, even. One month after Valentine's, on the 14th of March, comes White Day, where men are expected to return gifts two to three times more valuable than what was given to them. Cruel, how things work, isn't it. Especially considering that White Day, unlike Valentine's, has no religious or historical significance whatsoever. It was made up and commercialized by sweets companies. And the people gobbled it up.

 No pun intended.