Black Friday Madness

Guess what... I went shopping on Black Friday. I have only done that once in my life before this past Friday and I swore I would never do it again. Well, I proved myself wrong when I was up at 5:30, still later than what I had told my mom. I told her I would be at Walmart to meet her, unless it rained, at 5:00 Friday morning. Well... that didn't happen, the good thing is she knew that it wouldn't happen, bad thing is I still wasn't there when I said I would be. The other bad thing was, the gift I was planning on getting her was gone by the time I got there at 6:00, good thing is she is taken care of now. Also, I have all of my Christmas shopping done, but one now and I'm so thankful for that. I didn't really have to go through much to get them either. I actually had a good time with my mom and mamaw on Black Friday and there were only two confrontations with people. The ones when I'm still IN the car don't count because they couldn't hear me and I couldn't hear them. It does amaze me that 1. people get so crazy over bargains while shopping and 2. women allow their husbands to go with them on such a crazy day of shopping. Come on ladies, we all know men do not like shopping especially when it starts early in the morning and doesn't end until late in the afternoon. One of the situations where words were passed involved a man, but I totally understood that he was tired and didn't want to be there, however I was tired too and was doing nothing wrong when he opened his mouth at the WRONG time. I was standing in the Cookie Store line waiting to buy a cookie and Dr. P at the end of my day when this man, his wife, and kid (in a stroller) come by. I am turned looking at something else while waiting in line and from behind me I hear, "well, I can't get by", loudly, mind you there is plenty of space to go around the long line that I am at the end of. So I turn around in time to hear the wife say, "it's not her fault" but I didn't wait a minute before I open my big mouth to say, "excuse me would have been more polite" and then his sweet wife (apparently trying to avoid any unneccesary drama) looks at me and says again, "it's not your fault". I felt bad after I got in my car and re-thought the situation, but then I also remembered that she shouldn't have made her husband come along with her. Even if he wanted to come along, she should have asked him to stay home or come along but keep his mouth closed when approaching women who had been awake since early that morning.
That's my Black Friday story, and I probably will not do that again any time soon unless there are some outstanding deals like there was this year.