Black Friday Blues

I woke up at 2:30am after going to bed around 11pm. I figured I would just get up and go since I was awake anyway. I got to Wal-Mart at 3am just to find out they had "sold out" of the laptop by 11pm the night before! It seems as though they gave out tickets for however many items they had in stock last night. So while you could not purchase until 5am, you basically reserved the item the night before! Yes, I was mad.




I went into town, drove by the Palmer Park Wal-Mart and the parking lot was FULL, so I drove on by. Went to Best Buy, at 3:30am the line was wrapped around to the back of the building. I went up to Target and Joann's. There was no one at Joann's yet, but the line into Target was starting to curve around the building. I drove by Kohl’s and the line was all the way down to Michaels. I went and got some gas and ran into Starbucks for coffee and a muffin. I went back to Joann's and was the second car there. Pretty soon more people pulled up, and then at 4:30 this girl maybe 17 or 18 and her 10 year old sister go up and sit in front of the door! DAMN!!! The adults were really hoping to sit in the car at least another half hour since the store did not open until 6. So of course we all had to get out of our cars and get in line and freeze our butts off!



By 6am the line for Joann's was to the end of the building. I was the 6th person in line. The doors opened I made a bee line for the 1.49 fabric, picked out 3 patterns I liked and went to the cutting table (YEA, The only thing that went right!) I was the first one there, got my fabric cut and went to look for the other door buster things I came for. Everything was GONE!!!! Just like that!



I went to look for a sewing table and by the time I found it, the line to check out was wrapped around to the back of the store. I continued to shop figuring the line would die down...Nope! Finally I was so tired from all of this; I gave up and got in line. Surprisingly, the line moved very quickly, maybe a 20 minute wait! And the cutting table...it was backed up for about an hour wait!



I had to do it, I had to experience it, now I can say “Been there, done that, NEVER AGAIN!!!” I will stick to waiting until I wake up in the morning and head to the stores then. The few door buster items that are available are just not worth the hassle. Nope, no more black Friday shopping for me, sorry retailers, as far as I'm concerned you blew it with all your hype and then failure to deliver anymore than a handful of goods. Definitely not worth it!