Happy Black Friday all !

Years ago Mike and I used to meet my brother and a group of his friends at about one or two AM where we would join them at the front of the line to get into some store when it opened at five or six AM. MY Brother and his then girl friend had a thing that they always wanted to be the first so they would get to privileged store and form said line at about ten or eleven PM Thanksgiving evening. We would then all entertain ourselves as the line filled to thousands of people just before the doors finally opened. We then ran in grabbed the great bargains that whichever store we were at had, quickly get through the checkouts and then catch a couple other stores bargains before returning home and being in bed before nine.We really did enjoy this ritual but it is now in the past. Though my Brother and his now wife still go, his friends that used to join him have all married and moved out of the area.Mike has also been blessed with working this day, which would be a paid holiday, for triple his regular wage. Triple his wage is hard to pass up, especially since looking in the ads, there are not really any huge deals that we wish to purchase anyway. Besides that My brother's choices of stores lately have not been the Wal Mart or Target of the past but have become places like Dick's sporting goods. Now honestly, why would an overweight old woman who is pushing forty be standing in line at a sporting goods store ? Surely not to buy a kayak like my brother.
So this morning I arose to get Mike and Cindy, who had gotten some day shifts, off to work. By six o'clock they were gone and I started to sift through the ads from yesterdays paper. I would not attempt Wal mart alone at this hour but there was an ad for Michael's craft store. In this ad was the melting chocolate that i bought last week for a dollar a bag off. Well, I thought.... I got dressed and off I went. While there I picked up a few things with my twenty five percent off coupon before coming back home. I wondered, should I try circuit city where there was a memory card on sale that I needed to go with a Christmas gift that I am giving ? I decided against battling the crowds but seen where I could buy this card , or anything in the ad, online and pick it up at the store later. I did go online and bought this item. I will stop by the store later, when the crowds have lessened and pick up my purchase. Wow I wonder if those in line in the cold know about this set up ? Shhhhh lets just keep it our little secret!
I hope that everyone out there was able to secure their prize purchase this Black Friday. And Curt, if I ever need a kayak, can I borrow yours ? You might as well say yes because if I ever do get the urge to go kayaking, you know someone who knows me would have me committed long before I would actually get to picking yours up !