Black Friday

The problem with Thanksgiving is that it is on a Thursday. This means that most places of business that do not sell "gifts" are closed. This made it especially difficult in trying to track down the bottle I ordered for Maxwell. FedEx has no record of a shipment that is supposed to come to us and the company I bought it from was closed today. I am hoping to get this thing before I leave to Canada.

I joined the throngs of people who went out today. Perhaps I decided that it wasn't worth staying home since I foolishly signed up to do a secret shop on this day. It actaully wasn't bad. I suppose this is because I did not go out before 8am and was not in need of the popular items. I found a few good deals but really didn't get much and to my surprise had to wait in line no more than 2 minutes. Not bad for Black Friday. Shopping on this day has made me a statistic though and i bacame one of so many million people who go out to shop the day after Thanksgiving. Thank goodness I was not inclined to go stand in line at the Toys R Us in New York City and wait in a line, which I heard was quite long, for a Nintendo Wii, which, by the way, was not in the store at that and didn't expect a shipment of it until later in the day. So, for the throng of people who waited and wasted I do not feel sorry and am grateful I was not them.