Happy Mistress Day!
If your husband or boyfriend has to work late tonight, or has plans with a friend, or suddenly needs to attend to a sick relative, we hope you realize that what he's really doing is cheating on you—or so say florists and restaurateurs for whom business is just as brisk on February the 13th as the 14th, since men placate their mistresses by seeing them the night before Valentine's Day. "I guess probably in 10 years Hallmark will make a card for it," as the cynical manager of DUMBO's River Cafe puts it.
The most depressing part of this story, though, is not the idea that today is "Mistress Day," but the fact that typically, a man will make two dinner reservations at the same place and then, according to the manager of One if by Land, Two if by Sea in the West Village, ask the staff not to say anything. We're not exactly sure what it says about men that they have the energy to conduct two concurrent relationships but lack the brain power to choose two restaurants, but it really doesn't bode well for the future of our species.
