Black Friday!

What a joke! Who knows how many people attend black Friday every year, but one thing for certain is that Danielle and I will not continue to be among them. Danielle and I decided this year to try and brave the storm that is black Friday. Who would have realized that not only is it as chaotic as we had anticipated, but it was just as big of a joke as well.
Of all the places we could have chosen, we chose the treacherous terrain that is one of our local big box retailers. In the past we have done what any sane blooded Americans do, show up in the late morning and grab the slim pickings of left overs from the mad rush. Last night we experienced a whole new world, we were at our store for 12 hours straight waiting for one item each.
It all begins at 6 pm Thanksgiving day. We bundle ourselves up, grab the lawn chairs, the portable video games, our little bit of dignity and drove to our local retailer. We began by scoping out the lay of the land trying to get a feel for our plan of attack and expecting to spend a long evening out in the cold. Quickly however, all our plans were dashed by the new store protocol. You see, as we understand it, sometimein the past, a store employee met an untimely and unfortunate demise during this horific day (Our prayers go out to this family as should yours). So this year, the store opted to place their patrons in direct danger as opposed to the employees. The theory was simple, create a line at each item and in a nice orderely fashion each person would get their items in the order that they had waited. By all purposes, in a perfect world this was a great scenario. People on the other hand are very unpredictable and instead began mad rushing and crushing those to the inner sanctum of the product reception. What should have been a nice simple, long (let me stress the long part) wait for your preferred item of choice, quickly tunred into an all out free for all that would and could have rivaled many a martial arts matches.
Never before in our lives life have we witnessed the lows and depths of human depravitey more than we did today. Who knew that saving $30 on a $100 item was worth beating each other senseless. Maybe we should start MMA for coupon cutters.