November 28, 2014
Apparently you American's have this thing called Black Friday. It is not really a holiday but it should be from what I have seen. I find it amazing that people get up in the weeeee hours of the morning to go shopping for deals on all sorts of things. To make matters worse, I heard people actually start their Christmas Shopping on Thanksgiving evening. Now, we do not have either of these holidays in my village. But I hear they both are big here in the States. So if Thanksgiving is about spending time with family and friends to give thanks for all one has, which is what I was told it is all about, why would one go shopping to get more stuff??? Some say it is fun to stand in line for ours to get the big deals but I don't see why that is such a big deal. The only times we have lines for something is when the bakery has just put out the fresh breads. This little cannoli fails to understand why anyone would do this.
When the nice people of What's Up SWFL asked me to go with them to their Black Friday Shopping Extravaganza I was not pleased. This Diva is not a morning cannoli and did not want to risk getting trampled on by crazy shoppers....never mind the fact that it was going to be cold at that time of the morning. I mean really who goes shopping at 5 am? Apparently there are people who love to do that. So I figured I would go and see what this Black Friday is all about.
