19.05.12

I must have had too much wine with my Thanksgiving meal because for some reason my mother-in-law and I decided that we were going to Wal-Mart at 10 p.m. to start our Black Friday shopping, on Thursday.  That should have given it away right there, we have all gone crazy, we can’t even wait until Friday to start Black Friday shopping. I almost didn’t go, I was dead dog tired after having Thanksgiving at our house, a lovely one I might add, and as stated above after more than one glass of wine combined with playing outside with the children and eating all of that yummy Thanksgiving food, I was down for the count.  That is until my wonderful mother-in-law started shoving sales papers at me and I got a glimpse of the one thing we HAD to have that was going on sale at 12 a.m. at our very own Wal-Mart.

The children were sleepily tucked in their beds, the husband dozing happily on the couch watching football with a nice fire in the fireplace and there we were like giggling schoolgirls gearing up with our winter coats, purses and sales papers ready to fight the crowds.  “Surely there will not be that many people there this time of night,” I stated, naively I might add for when we pulled up to the Wal-Mart at Chalkley and Rt.10 I was shocked.  There was not a parking space to be had and we had to park at the American Family Fitness across the street.  As we made our way over to the Super Center I was amazed. You see, I have only been Black Friday shopping once before and that was during daylight hours; this was an entirely different ballgame, folks.  There was security everywhere (for which I am thankful), gates set up for people to move through to get into the store (you could not just walk in) and the lawn and garden section where all of the large toys (riding toys and such) was a zoo (and not a nice zoo either).  I stood there mouth agape until of course I was rudely shoved from behind.  Let’s just say people check their manners at the door on Black Friday (or Thursday).

Source: Village News Online