Yes, kiddies, it's that time of year again...time to close the shutters, lock the doors, and hope the draw of the maddening crown doesn't get to you.
It's BLACK FRIDAY
Working the stores yesterday, and seeing them this morning, the contrast between how relatively empty some of them are on Thanksgiving day compared to gathering crowds pawing at the doors, trying to get a glimpse at the fresh meat inside, until those doors open, and the horde attacks, certainly gives credence to George Romero's take on consumerism in his zombie movies.
The zombies are gathering at some stores, others they've already taken over.
Are you one of the zombies, or a survivor trying to avoid the zombies?
The store I worked this morning was already backed up in the checklanes; they started their sales, some of them, at midnight.
People are camped out in the aisles, waiting for that 5am rush, so they can beat the other zombies to the fresh meat.
The service desk is already filled with shopping carts, overflowing with floor clutter. Zombies are messy eaters; they grab anything that interests them, then lose interest and toss it aside anywhere.
Have you survived the zombie chaos this morning?
Or did the zombies get you and now you stroll the aisles as one of them?
What are you doing this Black Friday?
Quote from: Menard on November 26, 2010, 04:28:00 AM
The zombies are gathering at some stores, others they've already taken over.
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QuotePeople are camped out in the aisles, waiting for that 5am rush, so they can beat the other zombies to the fresh meat. The service desk is already filled with shopping carts, overflowing with floor clutter. Zombies are messy eaters; they grab anything that interests them, then lose interest and toss it aside anywhere.
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QuoteOr did the zombies get you and now you stroll the aisles as one of them?
Whoops: I be busted. :buggedout: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
I wish I could give you karma for this thread. :teddyr: :teddyr:
I may have to stop at Walgreens today but I'll bring a shotgun and a shovel just in case..
Quote from: Paquita on November 26, 2010, 10:04:25 AM
I may have to stop at Walgreens today but I'll bring a shotgun and a shovel just in case..
Well that should certainly get you a discount. :teddyr:
Batten down the hatches...they're coming through the doors, windows, any way they can get in.
Shotguns ready!!!
Damn...out of ammo.
Hey...maybe they have a sale on ammo.
:twirl:
BBBRRRAAAAAAIIIINNNNSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"They're coming around the corner!"
"You distract them....I'll get them with a baseball bat."
::BAM::
"Hey...that was my wife! Couldn't you tell? She was talking!"
"Why the hell do you think I hit her?!"
Quote from: Paquita on November 26, 2010, 10:04:25 AM
I may have to stop at Walgreens today but I'll bring a shotgun and a shovel just in case..
:teddyr: :teddyr:
Quote from: Menard on November 26, 2010, 11:04:51 AM
"They're coming around the corner!"
"You distract them....I'll get them with a baseball bat."
::BAM::
"Hey...that was my wife! Couldn't you tell? She was talking!"
"Why the hell do you think I hit her?!"
:buggedout: :buggedout: + :teddyr: :teddyr: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
There is a huge shopping mall in Pretoria East www.menlynpark.co.za (http://www.menlynpark.co.za) where Dr Menard and I can go hide out and wait for any zombies to come along. Don't do this on a Sunday morning, because then you'd have to hit everyone there on the head. :buggedout: :buggedout: :wink:
Working thankfully though I am off to Walmart after work to brave the masses. Luckily its to pick up an item which is fortunately paid for. Perhaps I'll luck out on the parking.
Quote from: Menard on November 26, 2010, 04:28:00 AM
...It's BLACK FRIDAY...
What are you doing this Black Friday?
Shopping? No.
Had 2 slices of pizza at TJ's with a birch beer, then walked Asbury Park's boardwalk...very nice. Going back to the car, inland just a block, was like hitting an arctic wind! I hate walking in the wind. :drink:
No such thing here. The biggest traditional sale is the boxing day sales, but half the time people are too fat on christmas feasts that only the super keen go. Come to our country, where the fridays are only black if there's been a severe bush-fire.
who needs a shot gun as a PRIME? Use lighter fluid and light a match, then watch'em burn!
Quote from: dean on November 27, 2010, 09:48:18 AM
No such thing here. The biggest traditional sale is the boxing day sales, but half the time people are too fat on christmas feasts that only the super keen go. Come to our country, where the fridays are only black if there's been a severe bush-fire.
Actually, Black Friday is something we've only been hearing about in Canada in the last couple of years, and I don't know that it's much more than a gimmick here, a name stores stick on their ordinary sales. It's really an American phenomenon. With Thanksgiving on a Thursday about a month before Christmas, a big Friday sale is ideal. In Canada, we have Thanksgiving on a Monday in October, so we don't have a perfectly-placed pre-Christmas holiday, we don't have that sudden kick-off to the Christmas shopping season, and we don't have a lot of people taking a four-day weekend, leaving Friday free to shop.
But Black Friday is catching on here, for the same reason Canadians adopt a lot of American things that don't particularly work here. We see it on American TV and want to do it too. :lookingup:
I worked a 12 hour shift without a lunch break in a toy store on Black Friday.
Nothing can kill me.
Quote from: Chainsaw midget on November 28, 2010, 12:58:12 PM
I worked a 12 hour shift without a lunch break in a toy store on Black Friday.
Nothing can kill me.
you didn't see me, If you did, you would've died right there and then. :teddyr: