Black Friday

So how was your black friday? I went from a doctor's apt to the ER and a treatment from my Ear Nose and Throat Specialist. They lanced the peritonsillar abscess I have and sent me home in a cab. The two people I know that are still in town that I can contact were working. With the narcotic they gave me, I'm not supposed to drive. And then I slept for the next 4 hours.

So, anybody go out and get some Christmas shopping done?

Oh you poor thing, that sounds painful!

I'm not crazy about shopping in crowds of crazy folks so I never shop on Black Friday even for milk and bread. Some of those people are nuts, acting all stupid just to get a few bucks off some Xmas gift or other (some Xmas spirit they have! LOL).

Working on getting my name changed, so went to change it at the bank. Got it changed, but their ATM card printer was broken and they refuse to mail out ATM cards for name changes (wtf?). Anywho, "go the Highland branch, it's the closest and they can do it for you."

Fine, whatever.

Drove to the Highland branch but the power was out in like a 6 block radius, so no power to print the card. And oh yeah, the Highland branch called my local branch earlier in the day and told them they were out of power. I love credit union customer service. Grrr.

Drove to the main branch, downtown San Bernardino, a city which makes Baghdad look like a pleasant place to live. Got the card and then drove through EVIL freeway traffic to get home. Meh.

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I shop on Black Friday - online.

So far its totally dead at my store. 2 weeks before Christmas is when we get more business.

I worked, hitting goal finally in the first time since I started there a year ago.. good stuff. Then took a cart of horse manure out into the back pasture.. then, ate soup on the computer. :)

I drove for 3 hours to drop some rats off, and only purchase is a dishwasher. We've needed one for 1.5 years, less and less time to clean lately so picked up a portable one.

Probably the only item in the store that wasn't on sale :)

sorry to hear about your day Schlyne

I slept in this morning.

When Randy got home from work we went to the bank and came back home.

I took a nap for a couple of house and we just ordered pizza.

It was a nice day off :)

I will never, never, never, NEVER work another Black Friday in retail. I feel half dead... and I ony worked eight hours. I feel so bad for Frank... he started at 8:00 AM this morning and is still going (he's in retail, too). You thought shopping was bad... try the other side!

Got up at 6AM to go to work.. Petsmart opens at 9AM, but the entire parking lot was full 2 hours before opening.. and I had to park in the waaay far corner of Blockbuster's parking lot. Throngs of crazy shoppers.. and very irritable customers all day. I'm tired!

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Originally Posted by ladywhipple02

I will never, never, never, NEVER work another Black Friday in retail. I feel half dead... and I ony worked eight hours. I feel so bad for Frank... he started at 8:00 AM this morning and is still going (he's in retail, too). You thought shopping was bad... try the other side!

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Yeah I worked retail at KB Toys ... That was hell during Christmas. Never again will I do that.

Ick... I didn't run into too many irritable customers, thank goodness. Most everyone was in pretty good spirits. But my managers really irritated me... me and another girl were working the front for eight hours straight. Then I was told to do photo lab as well as run the register, while the manager that told me this went and sat on her butt in the office. Wanted to shoot someone at that point.

I did a little Christmas shopping, took the kids to the park and had pizza for dinner. Overall, it was a very wonderful day. My husband was just soooo sure we'd hit horrible lines, but we didn't. Not even a single person in front of us. I usually wait in line for at least 5-10 minutes on a regular day. The only problems I've had is my silly brother pegging me with acorns. I think he's still getting back at my sister and I for using him as a life size doll when we were little. :giggle: I liked it better when he was much smaller, since now he's like 5 inches taller than I am. :rolleyes:

what's black friday?

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Originally Posted by recycling goddess

what's black friday?

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The shopping day after Thanksgiving when most retailers have sales out the wazoo for the early birds. Called Black Friday, because it's one of the best "in the black" days for retailers (as opposed to "in the red").

I had a pretty good day, got up, took Diamond and Sigma (the Canine Assistant with us this weekend) to the dog park to play for about an hour, stopped at the bank, came home, then got Sigma "dressed" to go out (with her pack that identifies her as a working service dog), and she and I went to Weight Watchers, the grocery store to pick up some kitty litter, and then the convenience store. After that, I've been home reading and catching up on some shows that I've taped and haven't had a chance to watch yet.

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Originally Posted by cassandra

Working on getting my name changed.

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To Cue like you always promised??

:clap: :hug: :clap:

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Originally Posted by tigerlily

The only problems I've had is my silly brother pegging me with acorns.:rolleyes:

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Buuuuuuuuuahahaha!! :8:

What else are they good for though...really??? :P

I worked all night at the vet ER, crazy busy with a lot of patients hospitalized since we'd been open all day T-day too (during a normal week, we're just open nights and weekends).

Finally got all of the patients checked out and transferred to their regular vets; during the 7am checkout time to closing at 8am, the phone rang nearly continously, as due to the holiday number of local vets are closed until Monday and referring emergency calls to us.

Called a courier to pick up a rabies head and take it to the state testing lab, but the courier was not able to make it by before our expected departure time, and the veterinary specialists who share the facility with us, and who normally take care of releasing the head to the courier, were also closed today. So I arranged to drop the head off at another location on my way home and let the courier know to pick it up there.

Started closing the books, and found multiple accounting errors by the receptionist, plus we had a huge number of receipts to tally, since we'd been open through the holiday. Finally got those sorted out, and got a call from the courier that they'd been by the alternate location and of course since I hadn't taken the head there yet, they'd been unable to pick it up. They also asked if the testing facility was open today, so I called the state lab and got a recording that they were closed until Monday. Unpacked the head and put it back in the fridge for someone else to worry about.

Finally left work just before 10am, stopped by the store and got feeders, came home and fed and unwound, went to bed, got up at 4pm and went in to my other job to cover for a kennel tech who'd called in sick during our peak holiday boarding rush. Got home just before 7 and now watching Who Killed the Electric Car which is depressing and frustrating.

I'm -really- looking forward to having tomorrow off. :-)

Jess, that's a hella day...=P

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I worked at JCPenney's during college, in "unmentionables" department. Black Friday sucked...

My work week this week was bad tho...and next week will be worse. I work as a software tech support analyst on the phones and the company released a new version of the software the week before Thanksgiving.

In a normal week, I close between 35-50 calls. This week, in 3 days, I closed over 100. It was INSANE. On top of that, our team is down 3 people that they haven't found new hires for and one guy was sick...so instead of 9 people, we had 5. Ooh and the department just got reorganized and we're living through the "adjustment". :sabduel: :mad: :taz:

Needless to say, I was READY for a couple days off.

i went to south coast plaza, it was crowded. my grandma bought a purse or something but that's it. i wish i had a job, best buy had some good deals, cds for 6 bucks and the xbox for 300 dollars!

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Originally Posted by slartibartfast

Called a courier to pick up a rabies head

Unpacked the head and put it back in the fridge for someone else to worry about.

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hmm... does he know you have his head? :rofl:

My wife went shopping with a friend (all day!!), leaving me with our 3 kids. I took them to a local pet store and bought 1000 crickets for our Bearded Dragons. Dropped the crickets off at home and went to Home Depot. No lines, no waiting!!!! Then I took the little urchins to lunch. Our last stop was to Petco to laugh at their ridiculous prices. We're going to the White Plains NY Herp show on Sunday to get a Brazilian Rainbow Boa (my Christmas present) and some supplies. It's nice to know how much you're saving and how much Petco is screwing people!!!

Last year I got up at 4:30am to get to Wal-Mart before 5am to buy a digital camera (5am-11am sale) for my wife ($199). I stood in line for 50 minutes and almost got involved in a brawl for a laptop. We went to Wal-Mart at 5pm and I saw the camera still at the same price. Two weeks later they're STILL selling it at the same price!! 4 months later it's obsolete and they're selling it for $137!!!! ARGH!!!!!!!!!

I'll never get sucked in to one of those Black Friday sales again!!

I had been thinking about maybe hitting one of the office supply stores just to see the deals or do some online shopping, but that never happened.

I ended up buying toothpaste, shampoo and my prescriptions on black friday :P

I can tell you I feel a thousand times better now that they lanced the abscess.

Love antique shopping, so we hit the thrift stores looking for hidden treasures, Found a beautiful old chalk lady and a borzoi, not the run of the mill, but a very rare find just sitting there.:D This is the same one I passed on ,on e-bay for 50 dollars. She's in great shape and only 3 dollars!! A couple of other treasures.


We never go to the mall in search of new things on black friday. No matter how big the sale, my sanity is worth more. Just too many people.

Being that this was my first Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., I wanted to experience Black Friday - just a bit. I went to Sears at 5:00 am. when it opened. Got a great deal on 2 pairs of boots (one 75% off because it was mistagged and one for 50% off) and a winter coat for 60% off - stuff I really needed. I was back home by 6:15 before it got insane.

I picked up X-box 360 on friday ,I got a good deal the mall was jam packed.

My finace went and cashed his paycheck and then went and bought him a ps2(I know ancient now lol) and then came home to pick me and the kids up. It was 10:30am and we figured all the sales would be ending so we headed to Walmart for basic stuff and I will never do that again. Pushing a double stroller is bad enough but add in everyone and their mother leaving carts and walking away or cutting in front with out a warning is insane. Never again.

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Originally Posted by cueball

Buuuuuuuuuahahaha!! :8:

What else are they good for though...really??? :P

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He also was having too much fun tell the kids to 'pull his finger' and to tell me to get in the kitchen and make them some pie. Paybacks are going to be hell. :evileye:

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Originally Posted by rabernet

The shopping day after Thanksgiving when most retailers have sales out the wazoo for the early birds. Called Black Friday, because it's one of the best "in the black" days for retailers (as opposed to "in the red").

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Interesting factoid:

The first use of the term "Black Friday" was actually implying that the stress (and chaotic atmosphere) was the equivalent to the Black Tuesday, which was the stock market crash in the 20s.

It has only later that the Black was attributed to the financial aspect of the day, which was used to infer the first day of the year that businesses start making money.

And I start my shopping on Cyber Monday (the Monday following Black Friday) when the online retailers start their holiday specials. I'm not going to fistfight for a Gameboy Micro at Walmart at 5:00am.