Friday, November 28, 2008

Black Friday

It's that time of year again. The day that shoppers have been waiting for since last year's day-after-Thanksgiving. The day that true bargain hunters strap on their running shoes to brave the freezing temperatures, bustling crowd, and early-set alarm clocks. It's going to be mayhem in the stores today. Everyone and their uncle has gotta hit the sales.


My mom grabbed us a newspaper yesterday so we could look through the ads inside. It appears that most stores are opening at 4 AM this year. Seriously? I always considered ourselves a serious shoppers, but not THAT serious. We'll be sleeping in at least until the sun comes up. Geez.


I have always secretly wanted to go to a store on Black Friday where crazy shopper-people are stealing merchandise from each other's cart, pushing and shoving to grab the new hottest toy, and weeping in ecstasy over the biggest deals they found. Not that I want to BE one of those people, I just want to witness it. American consumerism at its finest.

3 comments:

  1. you know, I bet we would make a great shopping team. We would be ruthless. Dangerous. Unmerciful. All would cower behind us. And then we would fight over who spent the longest time in our respective stores.

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  2. Hahaha. Sooooo true.

    And P.S. It would be (and was) YOU in Harrods in London. If you spent any longer I probably would've needed a tent and sleeping bag to camp out in the store.

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  3. ha. yeah right. we spent wayyyy longer in H&M...my feet were getting so tired and hurting from waiting for you

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