Ah, only a week until the ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING EXPERIENCE! BLACK FRIDAY! YEAH!
I’ve been doing this since I was a teen-ager and I just love it. The turkey hangover, the lack of sleep, the traffic, the crowds, the hot stores, the items you wish were on sale but aren’t….it’s all good. Really.
And the biggest shock this year came with last week’s release of Wally World’s BF ad! What is the world coming to? A Walmart BF ad released TO THE PUBLIC before November 21? STOP THE PRESSES! Not that there was anything too exciting in the ad anyway. Shit for toys (but the ride-on cars for $100.00 is a steal). History repeats itself every year with Walmart. I can always count on them for $9.00 mens jeans, towels for a little more than a buck, umpteenth count thread sheets for twenty bucks…same old, same old.
But what I like best is the EXPERIENCE. There’s nothing like standing in the freezing cold for a few hours waiting for the store to open while you innocently overhear people standing near you discuss their shoplifting strategy, or pretend that you’re actually paying attention to the old lady in front of you who is rambling on about her ten grandkids and how she can only afford to get one of them a gift, or roll your eyes at the woman who is stupid enough to drag her three kids (all under age five) out into the cold to go Black Friday shopping. There’s nothing like entering Walmart at 4:00 a.m. to see a stumpy, bedraggled employee desperately standing on a table in the snack bar shouting “FURBIES ARE GONE!”. And you thank your lucky stars that you weren’t there for a Furby anyway…
Ah, good ol’ Black Friday… BRING IT!
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