Black Friday!

Okay . . . I don't consider myself a non-social person . . . but I have decided that me and crowds. .. well they just don't mix! I'm already NOT a morning person so you won't see me standing in line at 4:00 A.M. waiting for a store to open . . . but after today you may not see me in a store again on Black Friday! We didn't get to our first store until around 9:00 A.M. It wasn't as crazy busy as I thought it would be. . .but just enough to give me that claustrophic feeling . .. so we got our stuff. . . and got in line . . . well to try and speed things up the nice helpers at the store came and scanned our items in our cart and then gave us this nifty card to give to our cashier so we could pay without her having to scan everything . .. well all would be fine and dandy with this little process if the prices were right to begin with . .. and of course if anyone is going to have a jinx to the process. . . it would be me. So you guessed it . . . something wasn't scanning at the "Doorbuster" price and s they had to make an adjustment to my transaction. .. so much for speeding up the process!

We then make it to Walmart. .. well I really just don't like that place to begin with . .. and I quickly realized why I try to avoid it so badly . . . I went in there for ONE item basically . .. so I buzz over to the toy aisle . . . and hunt around amidst the hundreds of other toy shoppers. . . and cannot find the advertised item . .. There happens to be an employee in that aisle so I ask her where the item is . . . she said . .. oh that item isn't available . .. we never got it . . . can you sense my frustration yet. . . so at this point I move on to my "Mom's List" of doorbuster specials . .. I find them and we head to the check out. . . as we are leaving we see this white stuff floating in the air . . . I think they call it Snow . . . Geez that's all we need. . . and talk about killing what little motivation I had left to stay and do any shopping . ..

We did stay and trekked to Target next hoping to find the item that Walmart didn't get. . . well we thought we hit the jackpot . ..only to discover that it wasn't the item we thought it was. .. so we left there empty handed and headed to the JCPenney's. . . one step inside that store and I realized very quickly that I wouldn't be there long . .. we headed to the shoes only to be told that the sizes we needed were not available . .. so we left there empty handed as well and headed to the next store. ..

By this time the snow is trying to let up and we can smell the aroma of freshly baked bread in the air as we are passing by Subway . . . we take a break for lunch and decide what to do next. By the time we are done the snow had quit so we headed to Sears. . . Not much to be found there either and we left with a small purchase as the snow had started back up again . ..

Our last stop found us shopping from my "mom's list" again . . . by the point all I want to do is come home and my shopping mood had completely disintegrated. . . So I head into the store with my "list" and "pictures" only to be told that one of the items was not on sale until TOMORROW! So I get the other item and head to the checkout . .. And as I try to pay . .. the credit card machine phone lines are down causing yet another delay in the checkout process. . . Finally . .. things went through and I was on my way out the door and ready to make the trip home!

Yes . .. I have decided. .. that Black Friday and me just do not fit. . .