Well, tomorrow is the day before Black Friday. Notice I didn't say it is Thanksgiving because now it is just about Black Friday and the silly sales. In the (fairly recent) past, department stores opened on Friday with sales. Then it was Big Sales. Then, they started opening at 6:00 am. Later as stores competed to one-up each other, it became 5:00 am, then 3:00 am, then 1:00, and then last year it was midnight. So this year Wal-Mart announces that it will open at 8:00 pm on THANKSGIVING. (That's tomorrow...) Ughhhhh!! My boss informed us that she would be one of the people in line for Wal-Mart to open to get her husband an iPad. They are selling old ones, I think she said $399? But whatever. Last year at the Wal-Mart in the small town I work in, there was a fist fight when a guy took something out of the hands of a woman, and her husband stepped in. It got ugly.
Ridiculous.
Whatever happened to family getting together for turkey, football, catching up on family updates and lying around "full as a tick" (as my grandmother used to say) after Thanksgiving dinner?? Have we sunk so low that we have been reduced to this?? Don't answer that. I'm guessing it will be 98% Obama voters in these lines in the middle of the night. And those of us who choose NOT to wait in line for $20 off will provide the sanity in this country.
Or what's left of it...
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