#FirstWorldProblems
Had to replenish my supplies of Diet Coke and went to drug store.
Drove by Wally World and parking was packed. In fact, cars parked across the street, at COSTCO, with people walking back and forth from Walmart.
Was surprised “Ultra” Beauty supplies had a line that probably 100 people deep.
Nutz.
Classic reference books, durable tools, and consumables make for the best Christmas gifts. The rest is junk that accumulates, breaks, causes anxiety, and disappoints.
Why not just claim to be protesting the grand jury verdict in Ferguson, bust out the windows and doors and take what they want.
They don’t call it black Friday for nothing.
One of these days stores will get the hint and stop this madness. In the long run they must be losing money.
I could see the sense of it if it was crates of .22LR ammo!
I have never wanted anything that badly.
To give up my culture, my traditions and my family for an item?
To stand for hours in line to pay less?
To behave badly, unethically, and perhaps even in a vulgar manner?
To put things above anything else.
We are lost.
Trade family love and a greatful heart for more stuff. A serious statement on a serious spiritual sickness that pervades this country. Greed or Love, it is a choice that speaks volumes about you.
What is more important, what you are greatful for, or who you are greatful to for it?
It’s gotten so bad this year that fights are breaking out in the checkout pages at Amazon!
I remember when I was a kid, my grandma took me shopping (to help her open doors and carry her purchases for her)
she, like most women in LA, liked to go to the May Company Bargain Basement....
where the store (they were like Macy’s...big department stores...all over LA)....
where MayCo brought all their unsold merchandise, lowered the prices, and sold it all to bargain hunters
or rather, they sold almost all of it there
one dress i know...they didn’t sell...
there were about 40 women all mobbing one big sale table full of stuff
grandma grabbed a dress from the pile
unfortunately, at exactly the same moment, another old gal grabbed the other end of the same dress
neither one would yield (like cars on the highway)...
they both yanked and yanked harder and harder and harder...
until you heard this giant RIP and the damned dress was torn right in half!
both old gals tossed their halves back onto the counter, and
the dress died there
unsold,..
ha!
at least I didn’t have to carry it home for her
all 40 women just kept right on with their melee...gotta get those bargains!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obviously, none of these people made a 10+ dish traditional Thanksgiving dinner. I’m exhausted from the day which started early. To think of doing this crazy cr@p is unreal.
My family and my time is much more valuable. No price tags, no discounts, just good memories. Priceless!
LOL! Looks like football players digging for the fumble as the refs are trying to pull each player off the pile...
Personally, I hate shopping for most things (it must be the "Y" chromosome thing mentioned), but I do like looking around new - to me - gun shops, and brick-and-mortar book stores. Niteowl77 has learned that it is often more fun to go shopping without me than to take me along, so I get fewer requests to go along than in the old days. This suits me fine.
Mr. niteowl77
I did Sam’s Club this AM. Arrived at the opening bell with 100 or so ahead of me. 3 min. to get inside and another 10 to find my purchase and get out via self check.
Smooth with no problems.
Think about it;this crazy. If you have to fight a crowd for a bargain,& decide in the interest of unselfishness to relinquish something....what was the point of being there in the first place? Being at a point rather far back in a long line is equally stupid as the bargains are gone by the time you get there. Through it all,tho,I doubt that the store loses any money even with the “bargains” that may be offered,because they got a lot of people into the store in a shopping mood. They may lose the undying contempt of some of the crowd at the back of the line or of some of the employees who have to work through this insanity,though.