Black Friday
For those of you not from the US this week sports two rather bizarre American Traditions.
The first is Thanksgiving Day, a day when otherwise happily dispersed American families come together in dysfunctional glee to stuff themselves with turkey and the trimmings, re-enact childhood traumas, and fight about football.
The second is Black Friday.
There have already been reports of rioting at a few US Walmarts this morning, and hospitals are reporting increased emergency room visits as horrific hordes of US shoppers descend in desperate droves on the nation’s retail outlets to scarf up those kiddie Christmas List must-haves.
Thank the Big Kahuna for Ebay . . . I’m safe at home, and plan to stay that way.
November 26th, 2005 at 1:28 pm
Ayup. Moi aussi…. I’ve never yet shopped on Thanksgiving weekend - except online! Online is perfect….
December 3rd, 2005 at 5:57 am
Rumor has it that much of the talk of massive crowds on Black Friday was the latest round of propaganda dreamt up by tne current administration, Bill Gates, and the heir of the late great Sam Walton in an attempt to entice the middle class poor to part with what is left of their meager income to further solidify the vast socio-economic chasm between the rich and the working-class poor.
Although you gotta give it to our man Bill, he sure does know how to create a demand for his product. xbox 360 is the biggest hit sinze Windows, maybe bigger.
Happy Holidays my friend.
S.