Black Friday

I had the opportunity to participate in the “Black Friday” ritual this year. My friend Maggie's family is very dedicated to "Black Friday" shopping and as their Thanksgiving guest I was allowed to join in the festivities. I woke up at 3 a.m. Friday to line up outside the doors of J.C. Penney’s for the opening at 4 a.m. We were on a mission. Our target was a record player that converts records into mp3 files. As the doors opened we rushed in each heading to a different direction of the store scouring the shelves for the record player. Success! Matt took the first player off the mountain of boxes. I was in a daze, still wondering how I was functioning on such little sleep. I snapped out of it quickly when I saw the cutest little green top.

Next was Belk at 5 a.m. They gave away gift cards to the first 250 customers. Thanks to Matt’s cunning shopping senses we found an entrance to Belk with an extremely short line where we each were given $5 gift cards to the store. After Belk it was off to Target, my favorite store, which opened at 6 a.m. Target was an absolute madhouse. People were lunging everywhere grabbing for all the low priced merchandise. I’ve never seen grown people act in such a manner. Then we went on to Circuit City and Dick’s Sporting Goods. Finally our shopping day was finished. It was 8 a.m. and time for breakfast.