Black Friday fever spreads across the world: Carnage breaks out in stores as shoppers clamber over each other to get a bargain
Response (from Reader Old Texan):
“If you get up early and go out to spend money you don’t have, on crap
you don’t need, just because it is marked down oh so low, you’re an idiot.”
This bullshit started in the United States because the Friday after Thanksgiving supposedly marks the beginning of the Christmas* shopping season. Now even countries who don’t celebrate Thanksgiving (i.e. every country not the United States) are in thrall to this hysteria. What a bloody shambles.
*and yes, it’s Christmas, not the fucking “holidays”.
When asked whether or not we were heading out for any particular doorbuster items this year:
“No, because my AZ CWP doesn’t allow me to carry here in CA, and I’m not going anywhere even remotely retail in nature on Friday unarmed.”
It’s my favorite day to stay home and read, cup of tea by my side and a cat on my lap.
My missus went out shopping in the morning and did well buying stuff we would buy anyway. She bought a brick of 9mm and got Christmas shopping off to a great start. Other than that, definitely stay home. Avoid Walmart and Target like the plague because, well, there was a horde of folks there.
JQ