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Black Friday?

I chose to skip, but looking at the circulars...boy, there were some mighty fine deals out there for Black Friday. On the other hand, during my choosing-to-skippage, I've read at least a dozen articles online about fights breaking out on lines at stores. Hilarious. Anyone get out there today? Post your experiences, and purchases!

Posted by Matt on 11/25/2005. E-mail me!

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FIRST!

I never go on black friday, waaaay too crowded. Did you hear about the macy’s day parade? A baloon went out of control and injured 2 people. Crazy stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Fetus @ 11/25/2005 7:33 PM

I had to work…but thank goodness I work at a grocery store, which was steady but not incredibly crowded. Food is probably the last thing most people want to shop for today.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 11/25/2005 7:48 PM

I stayed in today too. I’m watching Christmas specials and cleaning the house so it will be doubly sparkly when I put my decorations up this weekend.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 11/25/2005 7:53 PM

Every time I go to the Black Friday festivities, my parents swear about 789,536 times about how stupid they were for going to the store. Odd, eh?

Chestnuts roasted by Warx @ 11/25/2005 8:16 PM

They turned me loose early from work and I seriously considered hitting the stores but I decided to come home and take a nap instead.
What are people fighting over? I thought 360s were the hot ticket item, and it seems everybody knows those are impossible to get until like foreva so are people just fighting for freebies and goodies and whatnot?

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 11/25/2005 8:23 PM

I didn’t go out but my mom did. There’s an Nintendo DS in my house and it’s not mine =\…. It’s only been an hour since I discovered this and I’m already contemplating resorting to murder.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 11/25/2005 8:33 PM

I hit target, gamestop, and best buy today just for the sake of "people watching"… and am now thoroughly convinced that there is more than just one species of human being. Also! I saw a video on the news tonight of a wal-mart opening up and when all the raving customers poured in some guy got knocked down and literally TRAMPLED. People are nuts!

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 11/25/2005 8:39 PM

I hit the Toys R Us at 5ish to meet a friend-still pretty psycho there. Let Christmas COMMENCE!!

(PS-So Matt, when are we getting the Xmas theme wallpaper again? )

Chestnuts roasted by Terror Claws Cole @ 11/25/2005 9:14 PM

I had to work (I’m a pharmacist), so no shopping for me. I kind of wish I could have gone out since I never have before. I’d kind of like to experience the crazy on the moment.

Chestnuts roasted by Dane E. Coffey @ 11/25/2005 10:00 PM

I stayed in and did homework most of the day, but I did venture out to Hobby Lobby at about 4pm. It was pretty crowded, but they actually had enough people working the registers for once. I got six 8.5×11 frames for about 12.00 bucks, which was great deal….I’ve been printing pictures like mad since I got a photo printer a while back.

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 11/25/2005 10:15 PM

I said this about the first half of my Black Friday experience in the last thread, so I’ll post it here:

Ryane: Everyone kept saying "OH this line is ridiculous!" Umm, hello? It’s BLACK FRIDAY IN A TOY STORE! Idiots…

The exact thing happened in my KB Toys store earlier today (worked from 4:30-9am and I have to go back at 5pm and work till 9:30ish), and the store was smaller than yours to boot. The real line went down the first aisle while everyone else was wrapping around the front of the other 3 aisles, and when I told them they had to move, they didn’t move for 5 minutes and then they did move, they all bitched. At 6am, this was the funniest thing ever. And when I got home at 9:30, I slept till 2:30. Nothing like a power nap.

And if Jeff is out there, I missed getting your package and it’s at the post office now…at a town that I don’t live near.

And now for Part II: I went back at 5, was a cashier. It wasn’t that busy, but it was still crowded. There was more bitchiness in Part I. And I got a Supreme Starscream for $40.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 11/25/2005 10:24 PM

I never go, not worth it. We did hit Barnes & Noble a little while ago, but it was the same as always.
I can’t help but feel bad that while there are people dying of starvation, there are people dying of trampl-ation.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 11/25/2005 10:24 PM

Matt, you might be interested in this http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=21897">news about Rome season two, but only if you want to kick off holiday depression with a bang. First Carnivale, then Arrested, now this? Why hast thou forsaken me, TV gods?
(Actually I still have faith it’s returning, I think this is just a ploy to drum buzz, but it’s disheartening none the less.)

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 11/25/2005 10:49 PM

I went to the Family Dollar and bought 3 pair of gloves for $2 and a gallon of skim milk. My kids are going to be so thrilled Christmas morn. Can’t wait!

Chestnuts roasted by Pastor Dave @ 11/25/2005 11:03 PM

I used to force my parents to take my siblings and I out on Black Friday just so we could witness the carnage first hand. Instead of waiting forever in long lines, we’d go through stores and give each other hints for presents. It was my parents’ opportunity to burn off all the excess turkey from the night before, and a chance for us kids to watch people act like absolute idiots.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Boligarky @ 11/25/2005 11:06 PM

You know what sucks? When other people online use the same name as you. It messes with my head when people start talking to other "Jeff"s.

Can’t even get mad at the other Jeff. It’s not like he’s impersonating me, he just happens to have parents with the same taste in names as mine.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff @ 11/25/2005 11:09 PM

Squee, that sucks, but if Rome doesn’t make it to S2, it’s not like there weren’t any warning signs…

1) Several recurring characters offed, including a few major characters.
2) History dictates characters that are not ready to carry the weight of the show to carry the weight of the show.
3) Returning viewers first have to get over #1, and then somehow remember that they watched Rome when it airs again in 2026.
4) Perilious situation: Some actors will be too young, other actors will be getting too old.
5) NO BLOOD

Hindsight being 20/20, they should’ve spread S1 out over two seasons.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 11/25/2005 11:15 PM

I work in the freakin’ mall. Just got home. Want to punch something. It was bad, not incredibly bad, but enough to piss me off.

Chestnuts roasted by Larry @ 11/25/2005 11:21 PM

I’m in Canada, so no big shopping mania for us today. I work in retail though, so I am dreading the steady increse in traffic at the mall. I hate customers (unfortunately being a full time student doesn’t leave many choices for employment that don’t involve customer service) and people start to get extra demanding and rude this time of year. I’m the fastest cashier my store has, and I know our return policy VERY well, but people this time of year are always telling me how to do my job. Drives me nuts. Yet I still love Christmas, so I guess it balances out in the end.

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 11/25/2005 11:22 PM

Nope, we skipped today. Decided to stay in, put up the decorations and watch Christmas movies. Tho most everything will be gone tomorrow, we’re goin out tomorrow. One funny thing tho was my brother swung by my place and was like, I just came from Best Buy and they have PS2′s for 15.99! I was like, damn! grab me one! So he left right away and when he gets there he calls me up and is like.. "I messed up a mundane detail… I saw the decimal point in the wrong place" So he gets a smack for thinking 159.99 is 15.99, but redeems himself for fitting an Office Space reference in his screw up. Thats all from Victory Blvd.

Chestnuts roasted by Double G @ 11/25/2005 11:41 PM

I dig Octavian (and I think Max Pirkis does an awesome job) so #2 and #4 don’t get to me too much, at least as they relate to him. My biggest question is how they would work those dictated historical events into the continuity that they’ve set up. It does seem as if they’ve fudged the facts/left out too many important bits to have a great position to continue if they want to try and preserve the accuracy they do have. I really want it to go at least one more season, but I totally agree that they should have extended this one into two seasons and just include more of the bits they excluded (more Egypt, Octavian’s military career and most of all more of the Salad Man himself).

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 11/26/2005 12:10 PM

I didn’t see any fights today, sadly. But I had to wait in line for like 40 minutes to put my $80 DVDR on layaway. I had a lot of people bumping into my ass with their carts. Then they tried to circle around me without looking around to see that there’s people coming from the other fucking direction. But I spent less than $40 and got Tumble Time Tigger, a Hot Wheels set, Guess Who, Connect Four, and Cheer Bear with DVD to ship off to Toys for Tots.

I live near Reading, which is like the easiest place to get welfare in the state and in the top 5 of highest crime rate for cities of it’s size in the US. But it’s also the outlet shopping capital of the world (so I’m told) so there’s always cheap goods to be had and plenty of Christmas Crunch all year long. Ooh, and there’s a Stauffers Cookie Outlet right down the road. Mmm… irregular animal crackers.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 11/26/2005 12:26 PM

I stayed at home in my nice warm house today. After being up over 36 hours by Thanksgiving night, I had to get some sleep. Also the transmision in my car is starting to make more and more "evil" noises, hence no driving unless need be.

Thanks Discovery for having marathons of Mythbusters and Ditry Jobs on. If only Showtime was rerunning season 2 of Dead Like Me I’d be in heaven.

Atleast I have time to bitch slap the rubberband AI in NFS:MW, climb the last few colossus in Shadow Of The Colossus, and hold down Triple H in Smackdown vs Raw 06.

Chestnuts roasted by Punisher Bass @ 11/26/2005 12:34 PM

I didn’t go shopping today–just spent an hour or so at the local library, and ate yet another Thanksgiving meal. I did hear some horror stories, though, about late-night lines and battle royals in aisles for XBOX 360.

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 11/26/2005 12:42 PM

I went to get groceries, still too tired to remember it was Black Friday. It wasn’t until after getting groceries, lunch, and going to the bank that I realized it was Black Friday. Huh, didn’t notice much traffic… no more than usual, at least.

$4.20 for three tacos and a drink. Taco Bell holiday cheer, yay.

Chestnuts roasted by TKB @ 11/26/2005 1:11 AM

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