Black Equals Laugh

We approached the mall, pulling slowly in to the parking lot as we noticed the line of people waiting out in front of the door. It was slightly below 40 degrees and I couldn't help but smirk at the crazy people willing to wait for the mid-night black-Friday opening. We drove all the way around the mall and found one other door with another line and security guards checking their watches. What was more was the juggler on stilts entertaining the crowd. We decided to just sit patiently in the warm truck and figured we'd mozy on in when the line of people had made their way into the mall.

As 12AM hit the clock and the sliding doors open, people RAN into the mall as if door buster deals were gone yesterday! We laughed, walked up and made a beeline for the restrooms. Not a single department store was open, but almost all of the mall-shops were. Starbucks sat at the center ready to take on the nut-jobs who needed their coffee. And the stilts guy was joined by two buddies for more amateur juggling.

Ironically, as suspected, none of the stores had limited supply of their big-black-Friday sales. From 12AM to 10AM would be buy one, get one frees, 50% to 70% off and perky high school- college kids ready to take on the next 12 hours.

We took our time, went to all the stores without any dramatic gift in mind. We picked out Wall-E figurines, a few stocking stuffers and even a couple t-shirts for ourselves, drank a cup of coffee, cheered for the stilts guy and left a couple hours later when frankly, we were over it.

On our way home, we drove by Best Buy and I got a good laugh. Why? Oh, you can imagine: tents, lawn chairs, blankets, and insane people waiting for the big opening of Black Friday in all it's glory. What was the item this year? HA. Cyber Monday came soon enough for me.

It's Christmas Time!

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