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mistymasseyToday in 1867, Alfred Nobel was granted the patent for dynamite. Boom.
All the radio and television commercials lately have been devoted to the yearly shopping crusade known as Black Friday. Target opens at 5 am! Kohl's opening at 4! Carolina Place Mall will start selling at 1!! Come out and buy BUY BUY!!! Almost makes me miss the campaign ads. You see, I don't do crowds well. The press of so many people, most of whom are taller than me and blocking out the sun, sends me into a private panic. I don't understand the allure of Black Friday. There's a sale price? Big deal. I don't think there's a price low enough to make me want to roll out of bed at three in the morning to stand shoulder to shoulder with seven hundred complete strangers in the hope that I can grab one of the fifty flat-screen TVs the store has in stock, wrestle it to the checkout and then to the car, hoping no one slugs me in the parking lot to steal it. I hate feeling like I'm being played, and Black Friday is the ultimate manipulation.
*sigh* Those of you who do enjoy the crush, I hope you have a great time Friday and that you get everything you're going out to buy. I'll be hiding in my house, perhaps shopping online a bit, and reveling in the peace.
All the radio and television commercials lately have been devoted to the yearly shopping crusade known as Black Friday. Target opens at 5 am! Kohl's opening at 4! Carolina Place Mall will start selling at 1!! Come out and buy BUY BUY!!! Almost makes me miss the campaign ads. You see, I don't do crowds well. The press of so many people, most of whom are taller than me and blocking out the sun, sends me into a private panic. I don't understand the allure of Black Friday. There's a sale price? Big deal. I don't think there's a price low enough to make me want to roll out of bed at three in the morning to stand shoulder to shoulder with seven hundred complete strangers in the hope that I can grab one of the fifty flat-screen TVs the store has in stock, wrestle it to the checkout and then to the car, hoping no one slugs me in the parking lot to steal it. I hate feeling like I'm being played, and Black Friday is the ultimate manipulation.
*sigh* Those of you who do enjoy the crush, I hope you have a great time Friday and that you get everything you're going out to buy. I'll be hiding in my house, perhaps shopping online a bit, and reveling in the peace.
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Date: 2008-11-26 02:05 am (UTC)No shopping for me. R, R and I will be happily parked on the couch, watching movies.
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Date: 2008-11-26 05:16 am (UTC)Work at Macy's and we have to be there at 4:45 am.
And stupid me forgot to change time that I could work at my second job(video store) closing shift Thursday night. So will get home approx midnight and up at 3:45 to get to work...
WILL NEED COFFEE. :)
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Date: 2008-11-26 01:55 pm (UTC)I'm extra grateful for my option, knowing this.
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Date: 2008-11-26 06:34 am (UTC)(Still, I do like playing with the online sales to see if there's anything good.)
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Date: 2008-11-26 12:02 pm (UTC)Would much rather work it - those people are scarey!
Who came up with Black?
Date: 2008-11-26 01:55 pm (UTC)Black Tuesday is one of the worst days in our country's history? Who came up with calling the shopping day "Black"? Shouldn't they have called it "Red and Green Friday"? Or "Turkey Friday"?
Re: Who came up with Black?
Date: 2008-11-26 01:59 pm (UTC)I think the term came from the hope that a merchant's books would be "in the black" after the sales of that day. Even though analysts have determined the busiest shopping day of the year is really the Saturday before Christmas.
Re: Who came up with Black?
Date: 2008-11-26 06:00 pm (UTC)Ah! That I believe!
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Date: 2008-11-26 04:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-26 06:33 pm (UTC)Seriously, I know a lot of people who would wholeheartedly agree with you. The husband of a friend of mine buys nothing until Black Friday, then somehow manages to get all his shopping done on the day. Wow.
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Date: 2008-11-26 04:59 pm (UTC)My mother is a cruel woman who always made me go out with her on the Friday after Thanksgiving, though. Until I moved out, and got old enough to put my foot down.
"If I'm getting in a car the day after Thanksgiving, I'll be driving home not to the mall," stopped her pressuring me pretty quick!