A Timeline of Today’s Black Friday Mayhem – National – The Atlantic Wire.
I’m laughing so hard my eyes are tearing up. But it’s not funny, it’s sad and it’s sick.
First fight at Walmart 12:01 am in NY. It took until 1:13 am for the first gunfire to erupt, in Myrtle Beach. Amazing restraint and peacefulness this year I guess.
We did no go to Walmart, or any big box store to fight or to shoot or be shot to save a dollar on crappy Chinese imports. I walked the dogs, later I went to a local video rental shop and got Atlas Shrugged then to a grocery store for some dairy and produce items. I did buy a few items on sale that were not on my list. Gary did not even leave our property today. Guess we are just not keeping up with the trends in our society, or what’s left of it.
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Ric Frost said:
The whole Black Friday nonsense looks to me like some form of mass psychosis. I’m sure the new DSM has a code for it….
kayjulia said:
Much safer to shop on line for the trinkets one desires. The whole holiday madness is out of control. It is just stuff folks! By next summer it will be in somebody’s yard sale! Of course I missed the whole thing as I am in Mexico having a cup of coffee under my palapa this morning watching the boats go by the beach 😀 I would rather be doing this than being in some shopping crowd competing to get some as you refer to it China crap, and crap it is-I don’t need much and I’ve got it.
Dagny Gromer said:
It does seem to be a US thing. Kay says this does not happen in Mexico and a friend who lives in Brazil emailed me that shopping is much calmer there as well. The unravelling / decivilization process continues, I guess.