After reading about the Black Friday at the Wal Mart on Long Island, I look back and remember the 6 years that I worked the Friday after Thanksgiving at Wal Mart. I remember the rush of the people and how it was totally impossible to move around in the store while trying to get to my register. People were grabbing things out of other customer's hands. Heaven forbid if you left your cart unmanned for a few seconds. Your merchandise would magically disappear.
What really bothered me the most were the idiots who would bring their young babies out at this ungodly hour and would fuss and yell because the children were crying. I really would have liked to tell them a thing or two, like "Take the kids home, they should not have to be forced to be woke from a good sleep to satisfy your desire to save a few bucks." But of course, I just smiled and bit my tongue.
Now that I am out of Wal Mart, I don't miss it at all. Well that is not completely true. There are some wonderful friends that I made while working there that I miss chatting with each day. But the hustle and bustle of the crowds, the huge buggies of food to be scanned, standing on my feet for hours each day, and the cold turkeys having to be scanned, I do not miss at all. It seems to me that the Christmas holiday, which should be one of the happiest, has turned out to be nothing but a way for businesses to figure out ways to consume the pockets of the consumers.
Here's hoping that the rest of the Holiday season will pass without much ado, but I sincerely doubt it with the way the economy is right now. I would advise all to lock their presents in the trunk of the vehicles instead of in the back seat for all to see. Better still, take them home and shop another day for the rest of the gifts you have to buy. And for goodness sakes, if Wal Mart is busy, shop somewhere else or go at 2 am in the morning after the crowds have died down.
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