So finally I get around to writing a blog. It's a great way to keep a journal, a diary all can see, no more locks on this book. I was inspired to write because of my buddy Jordan, who also keeps a blog here, but all in all, I wanted to start blogging for a while now, plain and simple.
So, onto the post's subject. My buddies Jordan and Jake went to Wal-Mart with me to see the madness around 10:00pm, we decided to go get my camera and some food and returned around 11:50pm. All in all I must say I thought it would be a little more crazy than it was, but it was definitely not disappointing by any stretch. Between the fighting, cart stealing, and police officers, the night was truly entertaining. I swear for some people Black Friday shopping for them is like their last meal, they grab items as though they would never see them again in their life. Wal-Mart employees claimed they would open the wrapped packages at 12:01am, but that didn't happen, it was more around like 11:55pm to be honest, so we didn't get all the shots we wanted to but its alright, we had enough to sufficiently depict it. We saw my friends Charlie and Troy there, for about 30 seconds all in all after being either pushed away by the crowd or having to go somewhere else to get another shot. The night was filled with a few more enticing moments as we traveled to the drive through at Del Taco, Walgreen's, and Burger King for some pranks, which were filmed and will be uploaded to my Youtube and Facebook accounts shortly.
I don't know what brought people to wait by themselves for hours to get a five dollar movie, but hey, its Christmas time, gotta get those gifts right after Thanksgiving. I swear the only reason the radio stations don't play Christmas music in October is because of Halloween, oh wait, that's right, some do. I remember at my work, which is Best Buy as of now, they started putting up Christmas decorations and started playing Christmas music before Halloween, weeks before actually, on their radio station which plays through the whole store. It's the first thing you hear when you walk in, and the last thing you hear when you walk out. Nothing like a little Santa Clause is Coming to Town to get you pumped up to go home and dress up like a messenger of death himself and scare children senseless who come to your door asking for a piece of candy to further their childhood obesity.
Speaking of Best Buy, I had to work an eleven or twelve hour shift on Black Friday, not the opening one, the closing one. Let me tell ya how fun that was, dealing with the countless individuals coming in and asking if we have an item in stock. Guess what, you should have read the ad where it said "doors open at 5:00am", it didn't say 7:00pm, it said 5:00am, but no, your right, there might still be a chance that we have those half price nooks or external hard drives in stock fourteen hours after the opening. Ridiculous. The worst part is some get angry as though we owe them an item by gracing us with their presence, yes, next time we will just hold one for you because we know your more important than the people camped outside for nine hours. I even had a lady come in and ask me if there were any deals going on today at Best Buy. Really? Was she born in a shack? That is just one individual of the many like that, one's I had the opportunity to share the holidays with instead of being home with my family or with my friends. I did meet some really nice people though, out of the mass that came in. The amount of people that came in was crazy, you could barely walk around at some parts of it, but it wasn't as crowded as Wal-Mart.
Let me tell ya, the best part of it all was closing the store, waiting an hour and a half for a telxon scanner which we never got, or maybe manually having to enter the UPC's of the product to print price stickers for thirty minutes, man, Best Buy must know me well, because there is nothing that I would like to do more than screw around with closing duties for an hour and a half on a Friday night, me and my co-worker and friend J Fry didn't get out of there until about Midnight, but hey, at least we have a job and are receiving a pay check. I do like working there though, it isn't usually half-bad. Not to say names but some employees bother me a bit *cough Mac Fan Boys cough*, but most I get along with just fine and truly appreciate their company. All in all it was an eventful day, truly eventful.
