A GRAND PUBLIC PILLOW FIGHT MELEE…
(…not quite what St. Valentine had in mind…but it could lead to great pillow talk…later)

Nothing should surprise us about San Francisco’s expertise at coming up with zany ideas. The latest one being to use St. Valentine’s Day as an excuse to conduct a grand public pillow fight melee…right there at the Embarcadero Plaza by the Ferry Building…and with utter strangers besides.

We’ve all had our fun moments with our friends and kinfolk with this kind of thing, an enjoyable way to work off surplus energies or latent discords without fear of either physical injury or emotional trauma. But to willingly engage in such an exercise in a wide open public venue, with complete strangers, that’s really taking things right to the limits.

Well, perhaps not. So far nothing more serious than a few bumps and bruises from falling down onto solid concrete after getting smacked in the head with a soft bag of ersatz pillow feathers has happened. Considering such a melee involves perhaps as much as a thousand people going at it with absolute abandon and glee, it’s a gratifying testimony that folks in these parts can still do nutty stuff without going berserk about it (unless of course if they’re stuck in any of the Bay Area’s traffic snarls where, sadly, road rage, still seems to prevail).

Yep, Fog City by the Bay has it all. This public pillow fight melee may become the best thing yet for the young at heart since it could be the best way to lead them to some great pillow talk…later.

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