Life Threatening

Amy decided that we needed to make black friday a tradition. Cause what's Thanksgiving without waking up the next day before the butt crack of dawn?

So I set my alarm for 2:30 am. Yup, that's right. We were on our way to Wal-mart at 2:45am and arrived promptly at 3am. Our Walmart is opened 24hrs and they didn't shut their doors. We scouted out the store, found out where all our purchases were placed throughout. Each pallet was gaurded by a worker, I pity those poor fools. Most of the items that I desired I was able to place in my cart. Score. There was one item that I really wanted. It was on a palat in front of the electronics department. A woman had been there since 3 am with her hand ontop, it did not move for 2 hours. I decided that I had better position myself so I could get one of these coveted items. I just wanted one, is that too much to ask? The woman with the guarding hand was announcing that she needed 17. What ev lady. Meanwhile over the innercom a worker would firmly tell us, the customers, to please not touch the items on the pallets, the Sale does not begin until 5am, it is now only 4:30am. Well at about that time the guy on the corner started conspicuously ripping the heavy duty plastic. At about 4:45pm the woman in front of me poked a hole in the plastic. From there every few minutes began to tear away at it. By 4:50 there was a huge hole in which the items could be scene, but not touched. This whole time more and more people begin to fill up the ailes and several people have lined up behind me. At 4:55 the guy next to me, opposite the other dude, says "it's close enough, just take one." I was so tired of waiting and it was 4:56 so when the woman in front of me grabbed at one, the atmosphere was so intense I just couldn't help myself and grabbed for one as well. That's when all hell broke loose. The item that I had in my hand was ripped from me, people were barging in on top of me. I quickly grabbed for another, raised my hand above the crowd, lost my footing and was quickly thrown out of the way by the mob behind me and further pushed out of the way. It was complete and utter mayhem!!!!!! Later I found out that a friend of mine, 7 months pregnant, was literaly thrown to the ground.

I've decided that people lose all sense of humaness when it comes to a great deal, in limited quantities, for a limited time. Really, is an MP3 player more important then human life? I guess to some people it is.

I will, from now on, try at all costs, to avoid the Walmart on black friday.