Cheapskate
I got back pretty late from my dad's, like about an hour and a half ago. Given the current time I started thinking better of the whole "Black Friday" shopping extravaganza -- it just didn't seem worth the trouble anymore. The ads posted online so far haven't really been tantalizing, either. Okay I lie, there are quite a lot of tempting things if you're willing to blow more than $50; but this year I felt like being cheap. Then I saw that Best Buy's having a bunch of DVDs on sale. And now, sadly, I'm staying up the extra hours, just so I can fight the lines and the crowd, barging on in there to score myself some new flicks at the cost of pocket change. Is that retarded, or what?
I'm going to start brewing coffee tea in a few minutes.
ETA: Okay, the damage is done -- I ended up spending way more than I thought. 7 DVDs, 1 CD, 2 USB flash drives, and 1 handheld vacuum later I managed to rack up $92.98 to my credit card. I probably could've done without the USB drives, but I figured that ~$30 for 4 GB cumulative is still better than $40+ for a single 4GB stick at retail.
Anyway, being at Best Buy was a real blast. The drive was quick and easy, but the line horrendous. It wrapped almost entirely around the building, and then some. I think the most amazing thing I saw while there wasn't the size of the crowd, but rather, the quantity of energy drink cans, coffee cups and scattered Sunday paper pages all tracing our line of queued people. I have never seen so much caffeine concentrated in a single corner. If I had a camera I would've photographed it -- y'know, it's like beautiful garbage.
And I felt like a hobo standing next to it. Whenever I do late-night antics like this I feel like I'm on some kind of secret raid. I always have to slap on my black high school hoodie, topped off by my infamous dark gray beanie. Had I worn my convertible fingerless gloves/mittens this early morn' I totally could've completed "the look." I wonder if anyone else felt the same way... I swear, this whole fiasco is like a video game. In fact, maybe someday in the near future they WILL make a game out of Black Friday, hah.
Now, I crash and burn under the comfort of my down covers. :)
I'm going to start brewing coffee tea in a few minutes.
ETA: Okay, the damage is done -- I ended up spending way more than I thought. 7 DVDs, 1 CD, 2 USB flash drives, and 1 handheld vacuum later I managed to rack up $92.98 to my credit card. I probably could've done without the USB drives, but I figured that ~$30 for 4 GB cumulative is still better than $40+ for a single 4GB stick at retail.
Anyway, being at Best Buy was a real blast. The drive was quick and easy, but the line horrendous. It wrapped almost entirely around the building, and then some. I think the most amazing thing I saw while there wasn't the size of the crowd, but rather, the quantity of energy drink cans, coffee cups and scattered Sunday paper pages all tracing our line of queued people. I have never seen so much caffeine concentrated in a single corner. If I had a camera I would've photographed it -- y'know, it's like beautiful garbage.
And I felt like a hobo standing next to it. Whenever I do late-night antics like this I feel like I'm on some kind of secret raid. I always have to slap on my black high school hoodie, topped off by my infamous dark gray beanie. Had I worn my convertible fingerless gloves/mittens this early morn' I totally could've completed "the look." I wonder if anyone else felt the same way... I swear, this whole fiasco is like a video game. In fact, maybe someday in the near future they WILL make a game out of Black Friday, hah.
Now, I crash and burn under the comfort of my down covers. :)