Black Friday

shopping was pretty crazy on friday.

I had some friends stay over at my house on thursday night... we stayed up pretty late, expecting to pull an all nighter (which didn't happen)... we went to bed and then woke up and left at 5 in the morning.

unfortunately, (or fortunately, whatever way you decide to look at it), best buy opened at 5 in the morning... we were about 30 min. late. We did run into one of our friends from high school though. he said he was in line at 4:15 (45 min before best buy opened) and the line was still 200 people deep. So there were a lot of people there at 5:30, just not as many people as we expected.. of course, it was still crazy though. the line wrapped more than half way around the store.

all i needed to buy though was a 1 terabyte hard drive for 150 bucks.. pretty good deal. and i need something to store all my videos on.

heres a good tip though: check amazon.com for christmas deals. i was pretty excited to have my list complete, go shopping on friday, and then be done shopping... however, the night before i looked at amazon.com and everything on my list was the exact same price on amazon.. they even had free shipping... which means not having to get up early (unless you like to people-watch like my friends and i)

target however, was a different story. it was crazy. imagine hundreds of moms with shopping carts, willing to kill for a deal. wow. we walked to the electronics department, decided nothing was worth standing in line for 45 minutes, and then left.

which reminds me... a walmart worker was killed after being trampled to death in a new york walmart... which i think is pathetic. i don't know how people can be in that situation and not try and prevent a death... do people really care about getting their plasma tvs that much?

here's the youtube video about the incident:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S6UKRaM5fA