Black Friday WTF

I’ve never tried that.

One year though, I was playing Jack and Daxter, and in the middle of my game my playstation2 fried! I had to rush out and get a new one…I wanted to play my game…but since my family has never done holiday shopping, I was completely un-aware of it being…Black Friday…until I arived and my local Best Buy. I got my playstation2…and then stood in line for almost 3 hours!!!! NEVER doing that again.

I hate shopping at this time. I get panic attacks walking down the isles and have a constant fear of being run over by a shopping cart.

At 4 am, I’m fast asleep. Every day.

We don’t really have Black Friday here, but I find the entire idea of people tearing each other to pieces for an object on sale to be nuts. Bleh! I’m sorry you have to deal with that, Drag0n!

I’ve gone out early the last few years, but I stand in line (only 40 minutes -1 hour) for a single, non-chain store. They sell a lot of neat stuff and the first hour they open (6am), everything except for artist prints of photos of racehorses and I think one or two other items is 50%. This includes Breyer horses, so to walk out with an armful of Breyer models you have been looking for an not paying $100 is awesome. This year though, there was nothing that I really needed that was a new model this year and anything I wanted to get for anyone was on sale for the holidays, but nothing spectacular enough to rush out at the crack of dawn for maybe $2 savings. I also didn’t get paid until noon on Friday this year, but it didn’t matter. So, I slept until 11:30am 😀 (fantastic.. considering sleep has been very little with some family crisis stuff the past week). I did go out, but I didn’t leave until 1:30pm, got a few things for me, did some poking around just for the heck of it, and still got the one item I needed, but didn’t want to wake up for (spindles of blank cds and dvds at Staples for uber cheap… dad, coworker and I needed them). Went out on Saturday to order 1 item and pick up some things for mom (I’m helping be her feet a bit this year) and headed home. Spent 20-30 minutes trying to order the item (the computer system was acting up – poor coding, no manager coming, but the item was ordered and I wasn’t in a hurry and didn’t make a fuss… they appreciated it! 🙂 ). I used to work retail and total understand working Black Friday! Exciting, but yuck at the same time!

I avoid Walmart and Best Buy on those days, until at least 10 am. I’ll never understand fist fights over a silly electronic device or toy, no matter how cool or tempting. :shrug:

This year, the stores seemed open much earlier. Toys R Us was open at midnight! 😮 WTF?!?

SO tell me… are you one of those crazy, wake up at 4am to go shopping on Black Friday people??? … you know, the type who beast up an 80 year old lady for the last Zuzu Pet in WalMart?

Or are you one of the poor souls who have to work on that day like me? 🙄

Nope! I stay home – especially since it takes about an hour and 15 min. to get to where the shopping is (and i hate the nastyness)

twindragonsmum 😀

I have to work, so no sales shopping for me even if I wanted to. 😡

My pastor called it ‘Black and Blue Friday’ today at church, and I think he nailed it! 😆

I feel bad for the folks in retail with those awful after-Thanksgiving hours. I wish I could sleep in the day after Thanksgiving, and I’m guessing a few of them feel the same way… 🙄

Reading this stuff, I’m glad there a law against stores being open 24/7 here in Switzerland.
Drag0n, you should submit your traumatizing experiences to http://www.notalwaysright.com. They’d fit right in. I feel very sorry for you.