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Thursday, November 23, 2017

BLACK and BLUE FRIDAY


"Only in America do people trample others
 for sales 
exactly one day after being thankful 
for what they already have."
 ~ ghost of Mark Twain



I got off from work last night at 8 P.M. and visited Best Buy 

to pick up a Blu Ray of THE EQUALIZER in a steel book.

The metal railings demarcating where the shoppers would eagerly wait for Black Friday 

were already up ...

and a woman in a thick coat was already siting in her fold-out chair, book in hand.

I had to admire her bladder control if nothing else.


I wondered, among other things,
 if she would be trampled 
by the hoards behind her.



 What turns ordinary shoppers 
vicious and dangerous?




Adults hit children in their way.  

People snatch items from the carts 
or arms of others.  

Innocent bystanders are injured.


Store-engineered scarcity breeds an urgency and drive to snatch the "treasure" while it is still there.

City lights no longer have to go out for many to become animals.  

Just low prices, limited supply, and time shortage is all that is necessary.

Is a cheap flat-screen TV worth 
gouging out the eye of a child?



 We have lost sight 
of what makes 
this season special.  


It is not the possessions we love in our lives 

but the people in them who love us and we love in return.

Whether you believe in the Christ child or not, 

most of us know that it is better to give than to grieve.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF 
THE BLACK FRIDAY 
MADNESS?

6 comments:

  1. I only got on the road long enough to get to my friend's apartment for a day of using the computer, and TV-watching. I avoid all the crazies out there.

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  2. Well said. I don't participate in the purchasing frenzy. The world can do without all the stress, bullying and humiliation of gift buying. Why can't we all just buy a gift because we want to please someone.

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    1. I usually buy my Christmas gifts all year round to avoid the madness. You're right: just give because we want to make a person we care for smile.

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  3. I have never, ever gone shopping (well, grocery shopping maybe) on black Friday. And all I did online was buy some moisturizing skin cream I love that was half price. In all honesty, I have a very materialistic side, but I keep it under control and the older I get, the less I want because (obviously) I can't take anything with me!

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    1. I had a store in the middle of the local mall for 12 years and would marvel at the meanness I saw in the shoppers all about me. Sigh.

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