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Old 11-24-2006, 12:36 PM
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Black Friday INSANITY

My wife decides to get up at 2:30 AM to get in line at Best Buy for the 5 AM deals. She gets there before 4 AM and the line wraps completely around the store and makes several loops and ends up by carpetland. She estimated 1000 people in line. So she gives up there and gets in line at Shopko. Shopko is similar to Target for those that don't have one. She is actually near the front door there, should be a piece of cake. As five AM approaches people start sliding along the wall to skip to the front of the line. At 5 they just open the doors and people just explode into the place pushing and shoving. It's every man or woman for themselves. She gets to the 7" DVD player stack and gets one from the bottom layer. People were taking armloads of these and the 15 dollar DVD players next to them. The mad rush of people pushing and shoving made her give up her shopping expedition and she made for the checkouts like a Salmon trying to swim upstream. She came home and collapsed on the sofa. Is this what christmas has come too?
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