Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving \u2014 we did. All our kids and grandkids were here and there were no meltdowns and everyone seemed to have a good time.<\/p>\n
So today is the day after Thanksgiving, also known a Black Friday. I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s still true, but until very recently Black Friday was the biggest shopping day of the year and generally considered the official start of the holiday buying season. I said until recently\u2026 lately I\u2019ve been hearing about \u201cBlack Friday\u201d sales since about mid September. The stores used to open on Friday morning, but retailers pushed their opening times into Thanksgiving night and even earlier.<\/p>\n
I saw on TV this morning that there have already been a couple of deaths and lots of injuries from people arguing over Black Friday \u201cdeals\u201d and being crushed by crowds of shoppers. I have to wonder if we (obviously I\u2019m talking about \u201cother\u201d people here) have become so greedy and uncaring that we just step over the bodies of dead or injured people as we rush to get the cheap xbox, computer, TV, or whatever. How pathetic is that?<\/p>\n
I have never gone shopping on Black Friday \u2014 I like a good bargain as well as anyone, but to be honest I hate the crowds of people. The last thing I want is to be stuck in a mob of people fighting over trinkets. And\u00a0 besides that, I\u2019ve noticed that liquor stores never seem to have Black Friday sales. Only in America do people trample others for sales exactly one day after being thankful for what they already have\u2026.
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Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving \u2014 we did. All our kids and grandkids were here and there were no meltdowns and everyone seemed to have a good time. So today is the day after Thanksgiving, also known a Black … Continue reading