A couple days before Valentines ABC was showing “A Charlie Brown Valentine” and since Alex has always enjoyed the Peanuts specials and Andrew is a big fan of “Noopie” we manged to get home from soccer practice and get them fed and showered in time to watch it. In this special CB spends the entire episode agonizing over the “little red hair girl” and trying to figure out if she even knows he exists, if she’s going to be sending him a valentine, and trying to muster up the courage ask her to the Valentines dance.

About half way though the episode CB is at school sitting on a bench all by himself waving a sandwich around that he’s not eating and he is going on an on about the “little red hair girl.” This particular scene happens twice. After finishing his rant the first time CB takes the sandwich he appears to have maybe taken a bite out of, stuffs into his lunch bag, walks over to the trash, and tosses it away. It really looked like he just threw away a perfectly good lunch without eating it. The second time this scene plays out CB is again sitting on the bench waving his sandwich around talking about the “little red hair girl.” I wish I had the exact speech but it was something like,

“Look at the “little red hair girl” over there. I wondering if she sees me? What heroic thing could I do to make her notice me? I want to ask her to the dance but I don’t think she evens knows who I am and I don’t even have her number.” Just like the time before he stuffs the uneaten sandwich back in the lunch bag and as he’s walking away from the bench still pouring out his soul to the audience Alex cuts him off mid sentence and says,

“If I were him I’d just finish that sandwich.”

Ahh, romance.