I wasn’t crazy enough to go to any store the morning of Black Friday. I just don’t have the fortitude necessary to wake up that early and buy something. It’s dark for a reason. Of course, the lack of sunlight didn’t stop some people. I’ve read about people fighting over Timberland shoes and even people getting punched in the face trying to get INTO the stores, but this video really takes the cake. I’ve had the luck to have only been awake early enough for one Black Friday (last year when I was looking for a Wii) and even it wasn’t like this, I mean, come on people! Opening a door and walking into the mall civilized-like isn’t rocket science, there’s no need to act like cattle to get inside the mall and find your favorite store. The deals are there all morning and if you can’t find it between the hours of 6AM and 11AM then you can probably find it online somewhere just as cheap. Well, at least JCPenney gave away free Disney Snow Globes even though my mother-in-law didn’t get one because she got there 2 hours late.
Mrs Fireshaper is a bit peeved at me today. She’s been wanting a Christmas tree since we moved in to the apartment and I’ve been putting it off because we haven’t had the money and I didn’t think we had the room to put it anywhere. Well today we went to Home Depot and they had a nice looking tree for $130, so after getting all the trimmings we made it out of the store and got home. I love to open boxes so when we got home I opened the tree and Mrs Fireshaper said she couldn’t believe how I always say we can’t do anything then we do it and I’m the first to start messing with whatever it is. I can’t help it, I’m a geek.
[image is a still from the video, courtesy of the-consumerist]
