Black Friday

The day before Black Friday, I printed out our Black Friday Shhooooppiing-g-g-g-g list. Luke originally didn’t want to go at 5:00AM to hit Circuit City. He just wanted to sleep in. By golly, you can sleep any but getting up at 5:00AM to go to a store! . . That’s something you don’t do every day. We managed to rope him into going a few minutes before going to bed. Our plan is to go to Circuit City first (since it opens at five) and then go to Staples after that (Staples opens at six) and finally OfficeMax which opens at seven. We’d have an hour at each store

I woke up at 4:00AM and fell asleep every ten minutes. At 5:07, I woke up and got prepped. We eventually left at 5:15. There wasn’t any traffic. When we got to CC (circuit city), we noticed that there wasn’t a single parking spot. We parked at a CLOSED blues club and walked to CC. Sweet Fancy Moses! I’ve never seen a store that crowded. On the news, I always see them (mostly women) pouring through the doors but I’ve never seen ‘em inside. CC’s credit card systems were down so it was just packed! We decided that we weren’t gonna spend another minute there ’cause . . . well, do I need to give a reason? We decided to come back in a few hours.

Let me take a break from the story to address something. It’s interesting how these Creativists say how we aren’t related to animals. Well obviously, they’ve never been Black Friday shopping. They don’t know how all the shoppers chaosly rush in the store and how the shoppers who trip actually get trampled by other shoppers. If they knew all that, they would realize that we share a direct connection to buffalo. Ok, back to the story.

We were originally thinking to go to CC at 4:45AM so we’d be able to get there in time for the “opening” but since we weren’t gonna stay inside that mad house, we would’ve had to wait a whole hour before Staples would open. It’s a good thing we got there at 5:25 ’cause when we left, Staples was almost open. We quickly (but not too quickly) rushed home to get the camera and we got back to Staples with time to spare. The crowds there were soooooo much better than at CC. They had a nice single file line going in and it wasn’t hectic inside. We managed to get a 19″ LCD monitor, a $10 512MB QuickDrive and a $20 DVD player.

So, so far, the Crowd Scale ranks Circuit City as the Most Crowded. Staples is right below them in the scale.

We went to OfficeMax. Boy! You wouldn’t even think it was Black Frday. There was hardly any people. Even the parking lot was baren. Last year, there was plenty of people since there was a lot of free stuff but today, whoo! Nobody! We got a cheap hard drive there and a $60 digital camera for Ma (’cause she wants one that’s easy to use). The store was a nice change from the other stores. It was nice and quiet.

We came home for an hour and then went back to Circuit City. The crowds were much smaller but it was still plenty crowded. I bumped into somebody and said “whoops! Sorry ’bout that” but she didn’t even notice me ’cause she was arguing with the cashier. We took a look around and left.

I think most of the early Black Friday shoppers are people who didn’t eat that much the day before. At 5:00 when the comfortably full people were shopping, the people who stuffed themselves silly on Thanksgiving were on the couch with moaning from a overloaded stomach pleading to die. (we all know that feeling from those holidays like Chistmas or Thanksgiving where eating ’till you puke is tradition) By 8:00, the stuffed people’s stomachs feel better and then they go shopping only to pick up the scraps of what the 5:00 shoppers left behind.