Hands in the air - who all participated in the Black Friday
shopping the day after Thanksgiving? Did you start at 6pm on Thanksgiving Day,
when many of the stores opened their doors? Or did you start at midnight,
crashing through lines of people to get to the biggest sales on earth – first?
How many of you have trampled/scratched-up heels, bruised
elbows and toes from all the pushing and shoving from the other half-crazed,
eyes-glazed-over folks?
How many of you had folks at home sitting on stand-by with
bail money; just in case situations over the newest Play Station got out of
control in Toys R Us, because somebodies mom thought they had
their hands on the last one first?! Not that I would know anything about stuff
like that.
And how many of you are now sitting at home with a pile of
stuff (pretty much anything you could get your hands on) that you bought at 75%
off, plus your additional $15 coupon to boot – that you have absolutely no use
for now in the light of day? But HEY! Dang what a deal it was in that
half-crazed minute when it was between you and three other same-crazed-looking
folks and you dived-in on top of that rack and made the catch of the day first
by golly!! Those victories cannot be denied people – as they were all for the
sake of THE WIN.
And let me tell you, the yard sale re-sells of all that
unwanted/needed merchandise will be for sure at least the dollar value you
spent or maybe if you’re lucky, even some profit. Unless of course you’re that
“hoarder” that stashes stuff like that away, because some day you or someone else
might need it, but in reality, it will most likely stay until one day your
children are cleaning out your house, because you have gone on to bigger and
greater places.
Lawd, the talk about me when that day comes will be
tremendously funny, and I hope that my spirit is allowed to hang around for a
while. My children are absolute comedians and that show will not be one that I would want to miss out on. They
will leave nothing unsaid and no feelings will be spared as they discuss all my
saved treasures, memories of past conversations and prior words from my mouth
that will never die, even though I am now gone.
At any rate, hopefully that’s a long time away, and my
original discussion was about Black Friday. Well, I’ll tell you folks – I did participate
– oh yes indeedy I did! But I did all of MINE, from right here in the comfort
of my own home, in my recliner, with no other knees and elbows in my face, and
no one was grabbing anything but me and my fingers on the enter button of my
laptop! Plus I did not seclude my shopping to Friday only, oh no, I blew the
doors off Cyber Monday as well!
If you all did it right, hopefully your Christmas shopping
is about over, and that’s the brightest Christmas light of all!
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