Reply #15: My plan was to sleep in, BUT... [View All]

Years past I have been designated to go and stand in line at 3:30 in the AM to get one hot item. When I have done that, I have always been out of the store 15 minutes after they open the doors. I refused to do that this year because the store I usually do that at wasn't going to have security out front for when the doors open. I have seen too many fights because some asshole thinks that once the door opens he can push his way through the crowd to get his grubby hands on a TV.

My wife pulled all the adds from paper Thursday and said we are going here and here and here.
At 11:00PM last night I said if you are going to get up and do this we had better get some sleep.
She set the alarm for 4:30 AM then expected to walk right into the stores and not have to stand in the cold.
We got there at 5:00AM
Surprise, Now you get to stand inside. Toys-R-Us (opened @ 5:00) was wrapped all the way around the inside the outer walls from entrance all the way around to the registers. We put down the one thing we went for and left.
Kohl's (opened @ 4:00) was wrapped both directions from front door around and back again to the registers.
Old Navy (opened @ 5:00)- forget it, I am not sure what they had that was so special.
I thought I would pick up an external hard drive at Staples for $50 since we were out. I decided that my time was more valuable than that.
We went to Wal-Mart about 6:30 and their lines were all cleared up. Picked up a few things had them match an add from Toy-R-Us on an item to save us the hassle of standing in line at Toy-R-Us and walked right up to a register. As bad as everyone complains about Wal-Mart they know how to move the people through quicker than any of the stores.