During this lovely 4 day weekend there was a day we call ‘Black Friday’ the day after Thanksgiving where there are some incredible sales, and people get up during the first hours of the morning to line up outside of stores, so they can have first pick at these deeply discounted item.  Most of these people as you can assume are crazy.  Well guess what, I am one of those people.  I didn’t go to sleep that night,  even though I was super tired, turkey does that to ya, but I knew no sleep at all was better than the two or three hours I would get.  So I stayed up, doing who knows what :). Anyways, we were scheduled to leave at 3:00 AM, I was to be at my mom’s at 2:30.  I got all dressed in warm clothes cause it was like 28 degrees outside, and I would have frozen to death!

Our destination was Kohl’s, now I am not a big fan of this store, but my mom was wanting to go, she had a huge list of things she wanted.  She actually had a map drawn up showing where each one of us was supposed to go, we were ordered to grab as many of the items we were assigned to as possible, and she said we would sort through it all later and she would decide what she wanted.

So we left our house at like 2:45 and  arrived at about 3:00, well the store didn’t  open their doors until 4, so ya, this meant standing outside in the freezing cold for an hour.  It was torture, I was standing there dancing around listening to La Roux, trying to keep warm, continually looking at my phone counting down the minutes.   Finally it is getting close, ten minutes to go, we are like 20 people back in line which is pretty good.  But all of the sudden  people start gathering in front of the store, not in the line, just in front of the store.  I know exactly what their plan is, they plan to see the door open and just shove themselves in.  Well guess what, I’m not going to wait an hour in the freezing cold, just to watch some idiot get out of their car and walk in before me.  So the countdown has stopped, I see the worker come to the door, they slide it open, people from the line begin filing in, and the people off the the side start sneaking in, we all start screaming at them, well I know this is not enough, so I lock my sights on a lady wearing a yellow hoodie, about to sneak in through the crack, I begin screaming like a warrior, and get out of line and run to the front where she is walking in, I put my hands out in front of me and…..BAM……slam her square in the back, she stumbles to the ground, adrenaline is running through my veins as I see her crumble. As she falls I yell “back of the line” then run back of to my spot in line.  She doesn’t listen, but I can only hope I kinked here neck or something!!  Everyone in my family thought this was amazing, and they couldn’t believe I did that, actually I couldn’t even believe I did it! I have never done that to someone I didn’t know. But I was not about to wait in an hour in the cold and then just watch that happen.

Anyways, it turns out they were so well stocked that they really didn’t run out of any of the items we needed, so we could have slept in and still got the stuff, but it is kind of a rush not sleeping and going into survivor mode all for a little micro fleece blanket!!

That’s my ‘Black Friday’ story! Tell me yours!!

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!