Followup: Black Friday Sucks! (Or did it?)
People demonstrate strange behaviors and there is no question about it. It seems that wherever one might spend his or her time, the opinion of the average, middle or working class American is that we spend too much time working and not enough time on important things like hanging out with our families.
For all the students that whine about only seeing their families a bit or not having time to spend with friends, they apparently all forgot about their hell-like predicament. Why? Because Black Friday started a little earlier this year.
If you weren’t watching local commercials, or just weren’t paying attention, you may not have known that a lot of stores in Albany such as Best Buy at Crossgates and Macy’s at Colonie Center busted their doors down as early as dinner hour the night before Black Friday.
That’s right, the debauchery and antics actually started the day before. As Craig Robinson’s character predicted in the film “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” people soon will believe they should shop on Tuesday, too. But, let us shop, one might say.
Going into work, however, the validity of taking Black Friday a day back came under doubt. The whole idea seemed silly, but upon seeing the line of people drooling outside of work, some questions needed to be answered by customers. One’s answer to these determined his other qualifications to be shopping at this time: Don’t you have something better to do? Is it worth risking a trampling? Does your child really need that? Don’t you have family? Isn’t there a hot turkey waiting in the oven? Don’t you feel ridiculous? Don’t you feel lonely? Are you even thankful?
As soon as the customers literally came running into the store after ducking beneath the blast door and pushing each other out of the way, one thing became abundantly clear: Black Friday didn’t suck. The sight of seeing someone push another human being down just for a half off flat screen was simply sad.
How have we come to this point as a society? It’s not even about Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving’s validity or lack thereof. Why are people so materialistic? We may never know, but one thing is for certain: websites like blackfridaydeathcount.com and the humor of South Park illustrate the truth about this day. People become monsters.
People speculate on what the problems of the world are all the time. Sure, we can’t fix everything in a day, but wouldn’t it be nice to at least make minor changes in the way we behave?