Black Friday Maddness

This past Friday I partook in the lovely ritual that is Black Friday. This year was a bit different beacuse instead of going super early in the morning, sales started at midnight at the Sawgrass Outlet mall near my sister in laws house. My wife convinced her family to go in order to avoid having to wake up super early on Friday. I was all about that because I really didn't want to wake up early on Friday anyway.

Little did I know how crazy it was going to be. We had to take I-75 just to get to the mall and man was it busy! I even decided to skip the normal exit because it was so crowded for a different one off of the toll road. Once there it was a mad house just to get parking. I haven't seen the parking lot this busy in a long time, probably not since last Christmas and certainly not at night. We decided to park near the outdoor shops just in case we could go there but that wasn't such a hot idea. There was a HUGE line just to get to the Coach store so we all decided it was best not to go there. We headed inside and proceeded to shop around, holy cow there were people everywhere looking for bargains. It didn't look like there was an economic crisis to me.

I would say that the deals were pretty decent but I didn't find anything there that I wanted to buy personally. My wife and her sisters ended up buying a ton of stuff and I think they got a good amount of their shopping done. I think we finally left there at 3AM or something like that I was too tired to even really notice.

Not only did I go to the mall that night, I even went out on Black Friday itself to get more stuff! I know I'm crazy but I did get at least 5 hours worth of sleep. There was some crazy woman that I over heard talking to the cashier that said she was up since midnight and was still going strong buying stuff. To me thats just plain crazy. I was quickly running out of steam by the afternoon but we didn't buy that much more stuff. Now its all a matter of wrapping everything up and playing Santa to each other. If I need more Christmas gifts, I'm just buying that stuff online and having it delivered. It should make my life much easier.