Black Friday. The crowds were insane!!!

[Dr.Phool]

At the golf course. It took 6 and a half hours to play 15 holes. Then we had to quit because of darkness.

Anybody else have Black Friday horror stories?

[stepnw1f]

1. Gee... How Disparaging

Oh my... and I have no heat!

[NJCher]

2. yeah!

I made a couple purchases at eBay last week and tried to go on to complete the payment and I sat there literally for almost a minute waiting for Comcast to connect!




Cher

[xultar]

3. I was exhausted from watching the Bond Marathon all day. Whew!

[ohio_liberal]

4. I called my local Staples to try to locate a computer cable

They told me they couldn't help anyone over the phone because they were too busy with customers in the store. The whole point of the call was the make sure it was there before I had to brave the crowds at the mall. And their stupid website doesn't describe how many pins half of their cables have. Fuck 'em. I bought it from cablestogo.com for half of what I would've paid retail.

The local gas stations were filled to the brim all day. People were crazy trying to buy gas.

Other than that, I didn't even attempt to go out yesterday.

[f-bush]

10. Yesterday was national buy nothing day

I'm tempted to keep it that way during the whole season and exchange gifts on January 6th The 12th day of Christmas which is the Feast of Epiphany. This is the way some Eastern Rite Churches do it!

[niyad]

20. besides, at that point, you can shop all the after-xmas sales for really

good bargains.

[tularetom]

5. You're a better man than I am

I wouldn't go near the fucking golf course on a holiday. I typically get up 1/2 hour before the crack o'dawn in order to get ahead of everybody. I can play a round in about 2-1/2 hours if I'm hitting fairways but it drives me fucking nuts to stand there and watch guys taking ten minutes to line up their putt so they can bogey or double bogey a hole.

[Dr.Phool]

8. You must have been watching the group in front of us.

[SW FL Dem]

6. I didn't even leave my house.

Spent the day pressure washing the front of the house and sidewalk to get ready to put up my holiday decorations.

[xchrom]

7. i shopped at sur la table on line

and got ALL my holiday shopping done.
:hi:

[Beausoir]

12. Oooh! Did you find any good deals?

I love that site.

[xchrom]

22. lol -- not this time.

everybody wanted stuff that wasn't on sale.

one friend got a two quart copper sauce pan. oohh lala!
tres cher!

[leftofthedial]

9. I had to buy storage containers to freeze three gallons of turkey broth

and the grocery store wa OUT of the good kind.

(I had planned ahead for once and bought some good plastic containers, but my BIL and sister used the ones I had bought for leftover turkey and dressing.)

It was horrible! Horrible! I had to run my shopping cart into a little old lady's midsection and then beat her senseless with her own walker to make sure I got the last package of quart containers. Serves her right for getting in my way.

[Solon]

11. Layed around the house, then took a nap at like 3 pm...

It was horrible I tell ya, I couldn't even completely read the book I was reading!

[Jara sang]

13. The lines at my local video store were horrendous.

There must have been... two people ahead of me!

[bvar22]

14. Stayed Inside

honoring "Buy Nothing Day".
Watched a neat snowfall through the front room windows.

[lizerdbits]

15. I waited almost 5 minutes to donate blood!

I didn't go anywhere near any stores except the sparsely populated grocery store for some salad ingredients and lima beans.

[Bluzmann57]

16. Had to work

and it was a cold day yesterday. Horrible enough? Nah I guess not, as it paid quite well to be there. As far as shopping, why get up in the middle of the night to get something that will get stored away in the closet soon when one can sleep in?

[madrchsod]

17. stayed home-no money

watched law and order all day and sat at the keyboard...going shopping for a few things tomorrow if the wifes tips are good tonight.

[Catherine Vincent]

19. broke, busted, disgusted and can't be trusted eh?

I know how you feel. :)

[tridim]

18. None here.. I flew my RC planes all day.

It's absolutely beautiful here in Denver, 60's, windless and sunny. Perfect flying weather. Not for long though, we're supposed to get snow on Sunday.

[ComerPerro]

21. I visited three or four friends at their respective stores

One of whom was a store owner and two were store managers, and they all said their sales had been pretty slow.

[Raine]

23. Slept till 2:00 in the afternnoon

than spend the rest of the day on the internet, I'm exhausted.;-)

[Arugula Latte]

24. Ew. Golf.

(Sorry)