Seriously. I hate Black Friday. It brings out the worst of the worst in human nature.
On no other day of the year, and in no public bathroom, is it possible to find a greater number of assholes! They all come out to shop for Christmas–you know, that day that is supposed to be about peace on earth and goodwill toward your fellow man. Evidently the real meaning behind Christmas is about saying “fuck you” to your fellow man as you bite and claw your way to the latest toy for Junior–only to have him break it the very next day.
For some reason, in our consumerist culture, rude behavior that is ordinarily not tolerated (pushing and shoving people out of the way, yelling at old ladies, stealing candy from babies) is suddenly seen as normal and acceptable.
So to all you rude (and I know, not everyone who shops on Black Friday is a rude asshole, just the majority of them) Black Friday shoppers: Merry Christmas Assholes!
I hear you. I’d actually consider shopping on Black Friday, if it weren’t for this kind of behavior. As it is, I’ll be having Thanksgiving dinner with the family a day late that day, watching TV with them, and maybe websurfing or playing video games afterward.
I might be willing to wait in line all night for great deals if I lived in south Florida or some other warm place, but…I live in the mountains of damn Virginia. FUCK shivering all night.
I have to work on Black Friday. My route to work requires me to navigate a road separating the parking lots of two big-box discount stores, which shall remain nameless. I am not looking forward to it.
Slight nitpick, but shouldn’t this be a pitting for Black THURSDAY since several retailers (Yes, Wal-Mart, I’m giving you the stink eye!) have decided to start their cash grab while people are still stuffed and drowsy from their Thanksgiving Day turkey?
I’ve never shopped on Black Thursday/Friday/Saturday or Sunday, but after reading all the outraged articles and letters to the editor in the local press I have to wonder if I’m missing something. Surely, these retailers aren’t sending jackbooted thugs out and marching folks from their homes at gunpoint to spend money they don’t have, on cheap “Made-In-China” crap they and their families don’t really need.
Personally, I decided last year that I was done with the whole “Commercialized Christmas” and bought nothing for no one!
But it wasn’t until last week when I watched the movie “What Would Jesus Buy?” that I was able to understand and articulate just what it was I felt about this “holiday”, which has been hijacked by retailers. Fuck 'em all!
I find it sort of amusing and slightly appalling, but if that is how people want to spend their holiday time, whatever. Me, I intend to still be in my pajamas until sometime Friday afternoon.
A few people are already lined up at one of the local Best Buy’s out here. If time is money, that is a hell of an expensive gadget they hope to buy cheap.
My sister used to like shopping on Black Friday. She enjoyed the energy and the shared experience. The majority of people were really nice and the shared common goal made people more personable.
Now with the money grab that has all the big retailers opening on Thanksgiving, all the energy is gone. A lot of people, my sister included, refuse to shop on Thanksgiving and that splits the amount of shoppers. Fewer shoppers mean less energy, also, there is no reason to wake up early when people have been pawing through the sales for the past 12 hours. I can see this early Black Friday stuff backfiring in a big way. The problem is that the retailers will just blame the internet or something rather than realize their own greed killed the golden goose.
I refuse to accept that the day after Thanksgiving is called anything other than “the day after Thanksgiving”. That’s what we called it when I was a kid.
We always make sure our stores are plentiful. Our apartment complex is wedged between a major shopping strip, several smaller strips, and stand-alone Big Box. We don’t even attempt to go out after The Burger Disaster of 2006.
We made the mistake of going out for fast food that year. The place in question is maybe a five-minute drive away under normal conditions. We ended up in a sludge of traffic so awful, it took us about forty minutes to get there, another hour to get our food, and another slow, awful crawl back. I’ve never seen such idiocy. It looked like one of those escape scenes from a natural disaster movie crossed with a tempers-high row on the interstate. People honking, cutting each other off, rolling their cars in hyperactive thrusts.
My co-worker LOVES it. She specifically comes to our area because it’s so terrible. She apparently feeds off the frenzy.
I honestly don’t understand the appeal of it. Online shopping has gotten so convenient and trustworthy, I don’t know why anyone would mess with the lines. You get better discounts online and nobody gets hurt. Amazon was even kind enough to tell me that my Prime shipping will still work just the same. YES!
Eat it, you slovenly, credit-card maxing, bovine-brained Facebookin’ jerks.
Another thing: I have never received a “hot item” gift in all the years I’ve received presents. I have never purchased one such item. I have never known anyone to receive the most popular gift of the year. I wonder who really buys these things.
I support this pitting, and I definitely won’t be anywhere near a mall (or hopefully any other retail outlet) on Friday. However, I don’t think pushing and shoving is ever viewed as normal and acceptable. Now, yelling at old ladies might be OK if their hearing aids aren’t competing well with the crowd noise, and stealing candy from babies is totally OK, but only if it’s dark chocolate, which they can’t properly appreciate anyway.
Black Friday: Where people stampede, riot, and sometimes kill for consumer goods the day (and now, night) after they celebrate everything they’re thankful for.
Very often, those Black Friday people aren’t even Christmas shopping. The one time I did it, I wasn’t; I was getting a cheap computer for myself and it seemed like most of those other folks were doing the same thing.
No stampede though, it was an orderly line. I’m not exaggerating when I say that the first probably 100 people in line were ALL Asian. And they’re not like us stampeding American savages.
(I don’t care what anyone says about that. You weren’t there.)
I don’t care if they’re offering free 65" iPads that cook pizzas and give blowjobs. There is literally NOTHING I want badly enough to motivate me to endure all THAT.
Thank you.