I only I have 3 more hours to wait in line at wal-mart. (Yay) But their wifi sucks. Anyway, I still don't know why that call it black Friday when alot of the sales start on Thursday.
...Later an alternative explanation was made: that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss ("in the red") from January through November, and "Black Friday" indicates the point at which retailers begin to turn a profit, or "in the black"... More from... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)
You're telling me. Target opens at 8PM on Thanksgiving and goes all the way through Friday. Remind me again where the patience and sanity went in this world? Oh yeah, down the drain with most common sense
And then suddenly everything makes sense now. And It's Philadelphia's fault for the name, and now we know. Also my mom left me in line. If she want so scary I would just leave.
They must call it Black Friday from all the black eyes one gets when scrambling for marked-down prices.
Stores on Black Friday -----------------------------------------------------------> Me I don't do the idiotic rush like most do. It's completely barbaric. We're in the 21st century, sit your ass at home and order online.
It's pretty odd that it seems most retailers are trying to do their best to get rid of black friday destruction, like Home Depot and RadioShack (sort of...) making their deals last all week. Anyway, Black Friday is killing a lot of things- like Thanksgiving. It's not TG anymore, it's the fest before the battle day. :/
One of my friends today had their Thanksgiving "dinner" at 2 PM so her parents could line up tonight at 5 PM. I fear for the future of mankind.
They fear the term 'shut-in' so they do there best to fit in. I have no problem being locked away in a dark room with no contact to the outside world except a computer terminal. Don't fear it ... become it. That was just a joke of course. I don't like going out on holidays for one thing and I don't like (too many) people for another. Ordering online seems like the best course of action to me.
Three hours in line ? Jesus christ ! You' d have to pay me a pretty penny to endure this. Anyway, I don' t even pay attention to the French equivalent of Black Friday, even though it' s not nearly as agitated and doesn' t overlap with any familial holyday. See, the fact that it' s black might be the reason the rest of the year is red. Local little shop owners don' t sprout those price cuts out of their ass. I' d rather allow them to make a decent margin, sort of an economy karma thing I got going.
