Black Friday Fun

[saitaina]

Originally published at Memoirs of a Nobody. You can comment here or there.

Alright, so we leave at 3am after staying up ALLL night, get to Roseburg about 3.30am, head to Sears where they’re giving out 10$ gift cards to the first 200 hundred people. No one’s there but us. Whee!

Cut to about 4am one of the workers takes pity on us. Now I should mention here I have an injured toe and an ear infection, I’m in wet slippers (it rained), in the cold, sitting on very, very cold cement. My feet were frozen and long since asleep.

Anyway, the guy comes out, two hours before the store opens, hands us each a gift card (yay!) and tells us to go get coffee or something. So I thank him profusely, offering to found the next major religion in his name (he said thank you) and stand up…after aganizing pain as my feet started to wake up (and mum driving the car over to me) we slip off just as person number three comes up.

We head to ‘Penny’s who has snoglobes get there just in time for the doors to open, play follow the leader until we each get a Mickey snow globe (yay!) and then hea dback towards the exit, pausing to pick up talking stuffed animals (yay!) and head out.

We go BACK to Sears…after a detour with mum taking an exit two blocks from the mall entrance. I laughed manically at her until I realized that I was wrong and you COULD go through all the parking lots into the mall parking lot when she laughed at me and I made a face at her.

Anyway, we get back to sears and since we already have our cards we sit in the nice comfy, warm car and point and laugh at all the losers who have to stand out in the cold and rain waiting (well, we didn’t point and laugh were they could see us…). Mum keeps trying to convince me to accept an extra gift card if they hand them out when we get out there but I am firm in my no…even though it could have bought Bunny a present.

So we talk and gossip (and laugh at the wet people outside) until the doors open then we get out and shuffle/run over to the line (remember, injured foot plus wet slippers, my toesies were NOT happy). We shuffle in (they long since ran out of gift cards…go us for being early!) and head inside.

Now, it’s always fate that the one item you want is ALWAYS the furthast distance from the door you entered from….so the grill and blender we came for is ALLLLL the way across the store…literally the entire distance across away from us. And I have an injured foot and wet slippers…yup, I imitated an ice skater the whole way across (and almost fell on my ass somewhere near tools).

Now, we went to Sears to get three things. A. the gift card, because without them we couldn’t afford B and C. B. A grill…thingy (mum’s) and C. A blender (mine, since mine broke last week). Now these pretty units were on sale for 14.99each, today only…and since we each had a ten dollar gift card…that’s right, we got a shinty professional counter grill thingy and a shiny new smoothie style blender, for five bucks each (YAY!).

Now, mum got her grill no problem, there were like…fifty of them all stacked up. Me on the other hand…it was almost the GameCube all over again (two-three thanksgivings ago, they had the new GameCube system on sale, 99.00$ (first time for that price) along with the Zelda collectors disk at Wal-Mart. Those familiar with Wal-Mart on this day know that they have like…five items in the sale in stock and there are always millions of shoppers. Unless you’re a track sprinter you ain’t getting what you came for…I had to beg a second unit off a friend who just happened to snag two (this on the day mum was returning the expensive unit she bought me…yes it was almost disaster for the Nintendo Girl).

Anyway, we searched and searched and SEARCHED (with your lovely typist sliding everywhere) and finally found the blenders…after some confusion we found the units on sale…two left. I had to get a very nice, very tall lady to help me get it down (I could reach the second highest shelf and of course what i want is higher) but I got my blender.

So that’s all done, we’re in good spirits and think hey, let’s test our luck and go to KMart to see if they have their sale items still. So we drive over there, mum is uber nice and drops me off out front before parking WAAAYYY in the back.

Now mum came to get me an MP3 player for Christmas…but didn’t tell me so I had no idea why we were there (I got her to get me a HP ordament so I didn’t care). I wondered off to electronics to scount GC games (not worth the money) and saw mum passing me, absently wondered what she was doing but figured she was checking out toys for the boys and CabbagePatchKids for me (I got one every christmas as a kid until they stopped making them with yarn hair, once re-releasing them the ‘old style’ she started up again).

I go off to get my ordament, waving hi to my manager friend that’s worked in electronics for YEARS and is a good pal from the community theature (not the type of pal to call up or hang out with but when we meet up we’re on good terms…an associate I’ve known for ages basically). ANYWAY, I meet up with mum win women’s and we’re talking. She DID get a CPK (wrong one, I had to go get a diffrent one), and told me why she came and that they were all out.

Well, this is odd to me because yes, they’re probably all out of the sale item (they were), but I was sure they weren’t out of ALL MP3 players so while returning the Cabby for a new one, I ran by and checked. But instead of going up to any old salesclerk I tracked down Nick, my manager buddy and he lead me over to them where there were tons…he also wondered off until I whined that the shelf wouldn’t let me have one (funny incident since I literally whined and he found it funny as I was tugging on it…I’m a brat). Anyway, the unit mum was goin to buy was 59.99$, the one I found (and would work with my ancient ‘puter) was 49.99$ so…good deal. Yes it’s cheap but hey, it’s what we can get.

So I take it back to mum and she does the whole ‘But I asked a salesclerk and they said they had NOOOONNNEEE” thing and I tell her next time, just go to the God of Electronics, Nick.

So we put everything on layaway (we’re so broke) and I see mum has two StarWars action figures and get all grumpy (remember, brat) because they’re not for me and weedle six dollars out of her (they’re buy one get one free). I shuffle ALL the way back across the store and grab and Obi Wan…only to find no more “Darth” (okay so it was his other name but I can’t spell it, forgive me all StarWars obsessors). I look and look and finally make a deal with mum that I’ll buy and extra Obi and trade for her “Darth” (I saw she had one). But JUST as I was walking away…I found the last “Darth” in existance and snagged it. I literally skipped out of the toy section happy…and stopped when I almost tripped and stubbed my injured toe.

So I go to wait in the really, really, REALLY long line while mum goes to get the car since she doesn’t want me walking too far on my foot. Luckily I managed to choose the fastest line in the store (damn that old lady moved quickly…was like…two minutes wait when I thought it would be five or more) and I’m out of there and into the car.

Then mum decided we were going home (and I mangaged to talk her out of stoping at McDonalds because my feet hurt) and…we’re home and I typed this.

Score:

Blender: 5$ (uber percent off) (yay!)
SW Action figures: 6$ with one free (yay!)
Free 2005 Mickey Snow Globe: Free (yay!)
Talking Cheeta Stuffed Toy: 3.99$ (yay!)
MP3 Player: 49.99$ (yay and boo because I can’t have it yet)
CPK Doll: 24.00$ (yay and boo because I can’t have it yet)
Quality time with mummy without us snapping at each other: LOTS AND LOTS! (YAY!)

…so, the Gods of Thanksgiving were good to us for another year…and that was without sacrificing a turkey this year!