Well, I had a pretty uneventful Thanksgiving, which means no fires. Now I get to enjoy the long weekend in peace.
I made the mistake one year to actually try to shop on "Black Friday". Poor naive me had no idea that people were crazy and greedy and just overall bastards when it came to Christmas shopping for good deals. After that experience, I decided there was nothing worth going through all that for.
MSNBC.com had an article this morning on the shoppers (no surprise there. They have the same damn story every year.)
This particular bunch of paragraphs just made me all warm and fuzzy inside:
Even those who arrived early Friday and waited in line for the doors to open at 5 a.m. were not guaranteed success. Brian Clark, 27, of Bristol left empty-handed after the televisions and computers he’d eyed as Christmas gifts were snatched by earlier shoppers.Alarmed by a recent shooting of a customer waiting outside a Connecticut Wal-Mart store for Sony’s PlayStation 3, which are almost impossible to find, Clark had tucked his Glock pistol in a holster under his jacket and put extra ammunition in his pocket before heading out early Friday.
*sigh* Nothing says "Tis the season" like a Glock.