With Valentine's Day on the way, I know you're all sitting around thinking, "I just love my girlfriend/boyfriend so much! I really wish I could take her/him on a vacation to the most romantic city in the country! But where is that? New York, maybe? Charleston? New Orleans?"
Wrong. Wrong. And wrong. You don't need to leave Knoxville.
Yes, our own city with its romantic UT campus and sprawl out west and mediocre, overpriced wine lists in every nice restaurant has been named the second-most romantic city in the country! Amazon.com has somehow decided that sales of "romance novels and relationship books (Kindle Books and print books), romantic comedy movies (digital movies and DVDs), Barry White albums (CDs and MP3s), along with sexual wellness products" determine how romantic a city is, and we're just behind Alexandria, Va.
Now it just might be because this staff writer happens to be single, but I have to question the veracity of this ranking. I would think large sales of romance novels, "Love Actually" DVDs, and vibrators imply the opposite of romance - maybe something more along the lines that Knoxville has the second-largest population of sad and lonely females in the country. The fact that Murfreesboro and Clarksville and 8th and 17th on the list lends some credence to this theory.
However, Amazon didn't actually provide the statistical breakdown of the sales in each category - or even what those euphemistically titled "sexual wellness products" are. So perhaps Knoxville is the second-most romantic city in the country, full of happy couples making love with fuzzy handcuffs on while listening to Barry White. But me? I'll still take Paris.
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Dave Prince writes:
God, nobody tell Cari how I proposed to my wife.
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