Posted on 11/26/2016 3:09:20 PM PST by kevcol
A grabbing frenzy erupts at a superstore with scores of Black Friday shoppers fighting tooth and nail for TOWELS.
The mainly female crowd of bargain-hunters whoops, hollers and cries out with excitement over the reduced fabric and other household wares.
Most squabbles over Black Friday bargains have tended to be over higher value items, such as TVs and games consoles.
Chaos descended at the Walmart in Bainbridge, Georgia, with one getting so over-excited
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“Gimme dat towel!”
Black Friday: it’s the next best thing to looting.
Black Friday: Where Capitalists stand in line, like Communists.
LMAO!! Good one!
Black “Black Friday” shoppers.
There’s a scene in the novel Ninteen Eighty-four where the lead character Winston hears a clamor, like a riot.
He thinks to himself, “Finally! The proles are rebelling.”
But it turns out to be a bunch of haus fraus fighting over cheap cooking pots.
not..missing..the...shopping...one...bit....
It’s gotten so rough this year, fights are breaking out at Amazon.
I ordered some deck screws and fatwood online today. :)
A towel is just about the most massively useful thing any interstellar Hitchhiker can carry. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course you can dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
One of the fancier utility towels that some hitchhikers choose to have.
A proud salute to the all-mighty Douglas Adams.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: nonhitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have “lost.” What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
Hence a phrase which has passed into hitch hiking slang, as in “Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There’s a frood who really knows where his towel is.”
Why? WHY do people do this?
At least 15 years ago, I went to some of these sales with Sisters-In-Law, when the kids were little (they stayed with Grandma) so we could get good deals on toys for the Kiddies.
It wasn’t insane like it is today. You couldn’t get me in a Mall this time of year for love nor money.
Shop Local!
Why did they get all upset over some towels?It’s not like they had to pick the cotton that they were made from.
I haven’t been to a Black Friday sale in about 15 years. That time, I didn’t want to fight for a space in the parking lot, so I bicycled over (also ensured that I wouldn’t burden myself with ‘special bargains’, got the item I wanted, checked out in electronics instead of the front of the store, and bicycled home.
I may go again next year for entertainment value. Although the parking lots didn’t look too bad yesterday when I drove past.
Went to our local shopping mall today to get my hair cut. Had expected a real mess but was really surprised at the lack of traffic and shoppers. Lots of empty parking spots in front of the stores. Gals in the beauty shop said traffic and shoppers on Friday was much lighter than the center expected. Every store had lots of signs about bargains and a number of them had buy one item, get one free.
May have been since it wasn’t quite Noon yet but wonder if the brick and mortar overall sales aren’t down for November.
“Black Friday: it’s the next best thing to looting.” LOL
I’m 45 and proud to say I’ve never gone shopping the day after Thanksgiving (not sure when the term “Black Friday” was pushed on us)
Ditto here.
And I need to get some veggies too.
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