Do you know anyone who's already lined up for Friday's

[pscot]

big sales? Our local faux news affiliate said people are pitching tents and canopies. It's like Occupy, only stupid. It's pouring down rain out there.

[Flaxbee]

1. NFW

No no no no no.

I know some people need to take advantage of these sales to buy things they really need, and I hope they can wade through all the crazies.

I don't really enjoy shopping, and I sure as heck don't want to do it with a store jammed full of frenzied buyers.

[annabanana]

2. This is right at the very top of the list of things

I will never do. It's a new thing that makes absolutely NO sense to me

[MrsBrady]

3. I'll be at work...

and I wouldn't go shopping on Friday even if I could afford it.

[HopeHoops]

4. I hide in the house on Black Friday. People are fucking nuts.

[Chan790]

5. It used to make me hate working retail.

"Excuse me, does this espresso machine come in pink?"
Me: "What?"
"Come in pink? All my appliances are breast-cancer awareness pink."
Me: "No. It's steel though, so you can take it to any auto-body shop and have it painted to match."
"Yes, but then who's going to donate to {breast cancer awareness charity}? That's why I get pink appliances."
Me: "You are."
<storms off in a huff.>
Me (turning to work-peer): "See, that's why I'm glad I don't work on commission."

Black Friday shoppers are crazy.

[HopeHoops]

6. Like I said. I just hide.

[LWolf]

7. No.

Nobody in my family shops that way, and I don't know about anyone else; shopping is never a topic of conversation among friends or colleagues.