My Black Friday. Really.

After all the eating was over with yesterday- and then the second round of eating.. I sat down to plan my midnight run to the local 24 hour drugstore. Only to suddenly realize/remember that the non-24 hour drugstores had been open during the day and the sales I was after.. had started already. It's what I get for not paying attention to the flyers when I looked at them the first time. Oh well.

So I left the house by 10:30 instead of just before midnight. That part was better, I thought. I got most of what I wanted.. only a few things had sold out already. Then I thought I'd head to the toy store to see if I could get a camera for Lily. It was supposed to be open at 9, but what I wanted wasn't on sale until midnight. I assumed there would be a lot of people there, but I didn't think it would be too crazy, because A.. they'd already been open more than 2 hours and B.. it was a toy store, not walmart, best buy, etc.

I drove by best buy on the way. The parking lot was totally full. People were lined up all the way across the building, around the corner, and who knows how much further. I drove through the mall parking lot and the strip mall next to it. At 11:15 people were already lining up outside of Macys and a very small group outside of Game Stop. Geesh, I thought, really? I'm not sure what time the mall opened, but I don't think it was midnight. Then I got to the toy store..

Coming up to the side of the building I could see the parking lot was pretty full, but it didn't prepare me for what I saw when I got around to the front. The store hadn't opened at 9.. so they must have all been waiting for midnight. Who was waiting? People. Hundreds and hundreds of people. With more than half an hour to go cars were still parking and large groups were walking and walking to get to the end of the line. I laughed. And laughed and laughed.

I laughed the whole drive through the parking lot and out of the chaos. "It's toys!" I said to myself. "Freaking toys." I never got out of the car or even parked. I went home. And told Jason he should have come with me.. for a good laugh.

I laughed so much I forgot to make a drive by Target to see what that mess of a line looked like. It's fine. I much prefer Cyber Monday anyway. Because I mean, this.. (apparent craziness over $2 waffle makers?)