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Black Friday:

Day of Doooooom

It all started with a wonderful birthday surprise from my family.  Funds to buy a brand new TV!  We have been making do with Bobby's TV from 1994 but it was about time to retire the thing and get something from the 21st century.  We realized that this was a perfect time to buy a TV.  Black Friday was just days away and we could be the brand new owners of a amazingly discounted 3D-LCD-LED 80" TV! 

We stayed up all Thanksgiving night waiting for the stores to open.  We meandered to the car around 11:30 thinking that we would make it to the store just as the doors were opening.  How clever were we!  We got out on the road and to our horror there was more traffic then during rush hour.  I turned to Bobby and asked him why he thought all of these people were out so late.  Surely they weren't all heading to the mall at 12am.  WRONG.  We were so wrong.  They were ALL going to the mall.

Naive is a perfect word to describe our attitude towards this worshiped commercial holiday. When we pulled into the parking lot (well more like waited for 10 minutes to get into the parking lot) we saw the mile long line out Best Buy.  There were cops and orange cones and barricades.  People were standing inches from each other to make sure that No One would be able to cut them in line.  Those who had just parked their cars were dashing towards the line!  Sleepy children were being dragged by the arm by crazy moms.  Shouting. It was pure CHAOS.

We looked at each other and drove towards the exit.  Next year I will be enjoying Black Friday in my pajamas.  In bed.  Asleep.  

Bobby and I did venture out again and 4 Targets and two fist fights later (only kidding!) found our perfect TV!