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Black friday ---uvulas--- - totally local
ChadTower:
I live about 1.2 miles from here. It is now 11:24pm Thanksgiving night. I took these pics about 5 minutes ago... people were beeping at me while I took them and I could hear women bitching out the people in their cars through open windows. I had a beer in my hand and I laughed at them.
EDIT: ah crap digital camera not working... have video, will get up when I can...
BobbyG66:
That midnight sale shut down traffic for four hours in both directions on the highway.
I was asleep in my toasty bed...
XyloSesame:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on November 23, 2007, 10:43:27 am ---I really don't get all this whining and finger pointing about Black Friday... I'm seeing it on every message board or whatever I visit.
Hasn't it occurred to some people that there are some folks out there that enjoy shopping? More so than regular people. Perhaps it's even a HOBBY for them?
--- End quote ---
My wife, myself, and quite a few of our friends observe Buy Nothing Day in an attempt to set an example / raise awareness of the United States' extreme consumerism. Without getting into PnR territory, I think the quote below, from this years' campaign, sums it up pretty well:
--- Quote ---Driving hybrid cars and limiting industrial emissions is great‚ but they are band–aid solutions if we don’t address the core problem: we have to consume less. This is the message of Buy Nothing Day.
--- End quote ---
A classic Buy Nothing Day video:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uK0_jwyh_0[/youtube]
Now I shut up.
saint:
My buddy and I got up at 11:15 PM Thursday night, drove to Best Buy and got in line at 12:15. We were about 150th or 200th or so in line. Froze our butts off. Met several nice folks in line, I growled at and made a line cutter get in the back of the line, we started a shopping frenzy at 5 AM, hit 4 stores before we went to the mall. Merged with the masses and shopped the entire mall, then met my wife and mother-in-law at Ruby Tuesday's in the mall for cocktails and lunch. Got home about 2:30 PM Friday.
Had a fricking blast of a time. Gonna do it again next year.
;D
RTSDaddy2:
Then there are those of us who just like to be in the crowd. Though unsuccessful, went to Best Buy at 2:30 AM (way too late). Froze my behind off waiting for computer offer - was going to get one of the $199 deals for my Mom whose still using a dinosaur to do her office work at home. Met some really cool (no pun intended) people; have been doing the black Friday thing since my early teens, so for 20 plus years and will continue doing so.
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