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Sam postcard
Dec. 1st, 2008 12:42 aminspired by tahirire's postcard and a screen cap from someone unknown (but appreciated), I made a postcard for samgotmail:
Dec. 1st, 2008
Black Friday
Dec. 1st, 2008 12:50 amMy husband, Dave, usually spends the night camping out at Best Buy or Circuit City for a deal (we both got our laptops that way). Me, I'd never do it, not in a million years, but Dave...LIKES it. This year he's been sick, but he did find the Guitar Hero package at Target for $59.00 rather than the $99.00 I've seen it sell for regularly. Rachel has Guitar Hero on her wish list for Christmas, see. So he figures to go out that morning at around 4 am for the 6 am door opening. Long story short, he was really taken aback, and he didn't get what he wanted.
At Best Buy and other places he's been to, they're very organized. They hand out tickets. There's no rushing the door, no stampedes. He called me on his cell at 6 am - he was so stunned and really? Sounded kind of...shocked. Apparently at Target and Walmart, they open the doors and you rush in, right. But he'd never SEEN this stampeding herd thing. He said OLD PEOPLE were running as hard as they could. He walked, walked fast, but Guitar Hero was gone (at least the one he wanted).
He gets this outrage in his voice when anyone talks about it: "I'll NEVER go to Target or Walmart for Black Friday again." This from the guy who camped out last year starting at 8 pm the night before. But the people at these places act crazy, as we've seen from the news.
At Best Buy and other places he's been to, they're very organized. They hand out tickets. There's no rushing the door, no stampedes. He called me on his cell at 6 am - he was so stunned and really? Sounded kind of...shocked. Apparently at Target and Walmart, they open the doors and you rush in, right. But he'd never SEEN this stampeding herd thing. He said OLD PEOPLE were running as hard as they could. He walked, walked fast, but Guitar Hero was gone (at least the one he wanted).
He gets this outrage in his voice when anyone talks about it: "I'll NEVER go to Target or Walmart for Black Friday again." This from the guy who camped out last year starting at 8 pm the night before. But the people at these places act crazy, as we've seen from the news.