Black Friday Bonanza

Every now and then I do something ridiculous.

Ok, maybe more than "every now and then." I guess I should say that every now and then I admit to doing something ridiculous. Like going shopping at 5:00am. On the day after Thanksgiving. Ridiculous, I know.

But the female in me just can't resist! What is it that's so attractive about dragging yourself out of bed when you can be sleeping? The thrill of the chase? The camaraderie of fellow die hard shoppers?

Who knows. My mother claims that the days she doesn't have a desire to go out and shop on the day after Thanksgiving, she'll know she has truly gotten old. If that's the case, I suppose I'll continue to subject myself to such nonsense for years to come. I certainly don't plan on getting "old" any time soon.

And truth be told, we really didn't do much shopping at all. It was more marvelling at all the crazies out there with us. Although, I must admit that I did walk away with a $30 set of 700 thread count sheets courtesy of my mother and oh. my. gosh. Why didn't I get a nice set of sheets sooner!?! These are heavenly! (as if I needed any more reason to want to get some more sleep!)

We met up with my friend, Erin, outside of our local Target. After deciding we weren't willing to stand in the wrap around line that ended in the alley behind the store, we hopped in my mom's car and headed to Kohls. While there was no line outside Kohls, the line to check out inside wrapped completely around the inside of the store and doubled back. Uh, no. So we drove back to Target planning just to get Erin's car and call it a morning. (or is that technically still night!?!)

On the way back we were listening to Christmas music and Erin mentioned a song she and her hubby, Ben heard on the radio. We laughed at the funny "holiday" lyrics of "I need therapy." We also decided that possibly we were the ones needing therapy for being out so early to shop.
Notice I said "possibly."

Unfortunately, we found the person these lyrics were actually written for. The woman behind us in line at Target. Yes, after getting back to the parking lot, we decided to brave the crowd and go in. (Thank God we did, oh lovely sheet set!) Really, the shopping portion wasn't bad at all. We could see the check out lines were getting long so my mom decided to go ahead and get in line while Erin and I finished up. We joined her shortly there after. I offered to go grab my mom a coffee from the cafe and returned within a few minutes.

About 10 minutes later, The Ultimate Crazy decided she needed to let off some steam. Out of no where we hear this lady shout off: "Uh, I just have to say this cause I've been waiting in line just like you people and if you let anyone else cut in line, I'm going to say something! My time is important!"

We were shocked to realize she was talking to us!

Obviously she didn't know who she was messing with. My mom quickly defended the fact that
we were all together, in the same car, and definitely not "cutting." Hello, Lady! It's CHRISTMAS time! And besides! You are shopping at FIVE O' CLOCK IN THE MORNING!!! Did you not expect to stand in line!?! Get over it!

But she didn't give up there. We smiled and went back to our conversation and it just about drove her nuts. She jumped back in a few minutes later saying, "You can stand there and smirk and smile all you want but you better not let another person walk up and cut." Craziness! What is wrong with you, lady!?! She kept mumbling under her breath about us as well. And calling her friends on her cell phone to tattle on us too! She was the kind of lady who would give you the middle finger if you made any attempt of consolation. Ugh! Her attitude definitely put the black in "black Friday."

After about 30 minutes of waiting in line, we made our purchases and stumbled back to the car (making sure Crazy wasn't following to jump us our slash our tires). Needless to say, later in the day nap time for the boys was undoubtedly nap time for Mama too! All in a day's work, right!?!