Day after Thanksgiving Shopping---a cautionary tale...

[ScreamingMeemie]

Let me begin by saying, I am an idiot. What came over me to look at sale ads yesterday must have been some turkey induced semi-catatonic state. Heck, I had to get up with MrGrumpy anyway..so why not check out that sale where they are practically giving away cameras. It's 5 AM...no one will be out. Right.

I pulled up to the store, happily comtemplating how I can run in grab two of the practically free cameras, and be home in 15 minutes tops. It took 20 minutes tops to find a parking space. I was a bit early so I figured I would get out and walk up to the doors...only there was a line from the doors stretching all the way around the parking lot to the street entrance. So I turned around and got back in my car and went home. No wait, that's a different story, I actually stayed telling myself,"how many people are actually here for the cameras they are practically giving away?". Turns out a contingent from the state of Montana was there for the cameras. ;)


The doors opened and the orderly line becomes a mobbing teeming mass of people...kind of like after a Michigan/Ohio football game. Still I press onward. These people are freaks, and hey look, I am one of them...

After getting pinned in the toy department by two bicycles and an irate grandmother looking for the stuffed animals I made my way back to the camera department to grab the cameras...only I couldn't because there was a line there too. I entered the line, which was amazingly unhurried and I actually met some friendly people. We inched along, I could finally see the counter. I approach with a beaming,"look at me, I enjoy driving in a freezing rainstorm, to stand with a bunch of crazy people in order to get a practically free camera." She beams back,"Sorry, all sold out, no rainchecks." And my world collapsed. Here I had wasted 1 hour and 10 minutes of precious, quiet, sleeping child morning time, to battle the public in order to come home...empty handed. Okay, well not totally empty handed, I bought one of those really cool throwback video classic arcade joysticks that you plug into your t.v. and play old Atari games like Centipede and Pac Man. I got $5 off!

Moral of the story: My father was right when he told me that if it looked too good to be true, it actually was. That and it was an amazing odyssey of Christmas cheer on a cold, dark morning...no wait, that's another story...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone, I'm off to knit some Christmas gifts. ;)

[trof]

1. Always listen to your daddy.

From the old Maverick TV show:
"My daddy told me that if a stranger at the card table bet me ten dollars he could make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and pee cider into my left ear not to take him up or I'd be out ten bucks AND have a wet ear."

Funny story.
;-)

[Zomby Woof]

2. hahahaha

SUCKER!!!! :evilgrin:

I loathe the masses, and today I stay huddled indoors in a robe and slippers, posting rants on DU. Plus, you got up at 5!!! Since mornings are against my law, I will issue a warrant for your arrest.

Loved your last line in the post - I almost felt it was baiting me! ;-)

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. Me...bait you....

Never! ;)

[Zomby Woof]

4. knit me a pie!

And we'll call it a day! :D

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. I bet we will...

;)

[Lady Freedom]

6. Bah!

Give out coal. everone deserves it because they were bad at some point in time during the year.

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. I think they sold out of coal even quicker than cameras.

;)

[Zorra]

7. Great testimonial!

Thanks!

:toast:

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. I felt better after writing about it.

No sleep plus no camera could have been a very bad way to start the day. :)

[NaMeaHou]

8. I'll bet all the mall walkers

got the cameras. Damn the old folks and their dastardly ways.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. I think it was the lady who repeatedly shoved her cart into my

midsection...hoping somehow I would vaporize so she could move along. ;)

[LizW]

9. The mind boggles, but evidently

lots of people really love the challenge of day-after-Thanksgiving shopping. The hoards they showed on NBC news tonight looked like they were having fun as they stampeded over each other.

I'm sorry they were sold out of your camera, MrsG. That really stinks after you made the extraordinary effort to get there.

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. Thanks, I should have known better.

:)