Black Friday
Qbert and I are crashing Jon’s for Thanksgiving this year since our break is too short to go home. I had no intentions on going out this Black Friday but since Connie was going out, we decided to go with them. We grabbed a bunch of Abel peeps and headed out. We drove around cuz Robin had no idea where he was going and eventually past a Best Buy with a mob out front. Then we went to Circuit City which had probably 100 people. I was just going along for fun. The only thing I really wanted was more Wii Remotes and Nunchucks. Thursday night we were looking through ads trying to figure out what we wanted to get. Since I already dropped a bunch of money on the Wii and need to drop another 150 on more controllers, I wasn’t looking to buy anything else. We figured we weren’t gonna get anything anywhere so we just went to Best Buy to check it out. When they opened the doors, there was probably no reason for a line b/c it turned into a mob scene. Finding anything at Best Buy was crazy. The lines were so long. We decided it wasn’t worth it so we went to Circuit City w/ the rest of the people. Sarah got me a 1gig SD card for 2.99 after rebate, and Fight Club which was $6 which I’ve been looking to buy for such a long time. But we waited in line for like 1.5 Hours because this guy bought a ticket for a cheap TV for $50, but the ticket had already been used so they weren’t going to honor it. He was arguing for like 30 or 45 minutes. Ridiculous. And the guy manning the cashier was new or something and didn’t know how to do it.
Anyways, it was amazing see the foundation of our country at work. Capitalism and Greed. People had been lining up since 10pm on Thursday night. They probably rushed through Thanksgiving dinner (if they even had one) to get in line at BestBuy. The lengths that people will go to buy things. Stores fueled this greed and it seemed like people just turned into animals grabbing, running, and all sorts of other behaviors to get what they wanted. Of course I observed all this from waking up at 1am to get in line myself. It’s sad to see our country degenerate into this consumeristic hysteria that takes anything and everything they can simply because it’s a good deal and they don’t really need it. Ah . . . the joys of living in a first world country with too much money to burn (or debt to go into) that emphasizes satisfying one’s own desires.