I think she could have had some sense that being in front of a Walmart, pregnant, at the opening of “Black Friday” (all of our Fridays will be black until at least 2013) was not the place to be: still, it was not her fault that there were those who were selfish and dangerous in their behavior. Hope the mother and “viable tissue mass” are doing well. Maybe next time: go online.
Standing around in the cold for hours while pregnant is not my idea of a good time, no matter what the purpose. I’m still wondering what all those people wanted so badly. Maybe it’s just a ritual, to wait in line for a store to open, and they don’t really calculate whether they’re actually going to buy anything at a terrific discount.
I went to my Wal-mart at 10:00 a.m. for groceries, and there weren’t a lot of people there.