11.27.06
Black Friday
This year I ventured out on Black Friday. I always said i would never do it but this year I did. I wanted an LCD TV ever since I got the new house so i told myself to wait for the Thanksgiving day Sales. So i did. I decided to pull an all nighter and stayed up and got to circuit city around 4:15am. They opened at 5. The line was unbelievably long. I almost left once i saw it. I got in line and waited and waited, the line grew longer and longer and ended up going into the neighboring business parking lot. One funny thing was that McDonalds sent a few people over to the store and was trying to sell breakfast food to people waiting in line. I thought that was a pretty smart idea.
Anyway the doors finally opened. Everybody rushed in. There were people at the door trying to cut in front of the line and the people waiting in line almost kicked some arse(which they should have). The circuit city employee just let them cut. I got in pretty quickly and decided to head to the left, cause everyone was going right. I ended up being like the 4th person in line at the TV stands(which i was very surprised). I guess people didn’t know which way to get to the TV’s. I got to the front and I said i wanted the 40 Inch Sony LCD that was on sale on their website (it was called an unadvertised sale, which i dont get because it was advertised on their website???). Anyway this kid brought up the TV and it was listed for like $700 more than what it was online and i told him about the sale. He said i would have to go talk to the store manager. So that meant me waiting in line for another good 45 minutes just to talk to the manager. While waiting in this line there was a huge lady who was behind me in line. She started throwing a fit and yelling at the employees and manager about why she wasnt getting waited on yet. I seriously thought she was going to get into a fist fight with the workers. The manager told the lady that i was in line first and that he will take care of her after me. She couldnt stand it, she said she had been there since yesterday. This lady was in a rage and i was glad to finally get out of there. I brought my Jeep with me to haul the TV back. This was not a good idea. I had didnt even think about the TV being so big that it wouldnt fit in my Jeep. They put those TV’s in these huge boxes. We had to cram it in there and i drove all the way home with my knees in the dashboard. The TV ended up being great and i love it.
To make a long story short this will most likely be my last Black Friday. I never really knew that it was that crazy.