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Ok, we knew it was silly. But, you know, we’ve never had the experience before. And Best Buy did have some wicked good deals.

So, we figured, what the Hell.

[Insert dramatic and intimidating B-Movie Music here, along with a dramatic pause:] We went shopping on Black Friday!

The picture is pretty accurate.  The tickets they give you to claim the best deals,they start handing out to people in the line at 4am. The store opened at 5am. Naturally, I have some trouble getting to sleep the night before. Fuckin’ figures. So there we are, getting up somewhere around three.

A kid in the household had the audacity to perkily sing out “Good Morning!” to me. “Fuck you,” I replied, delivering said apprproiate response in a sleepy voice, but with feeling, damnit. She laughed, and seemed to enjoy my response almost as much as being annoying and/or a little shit in and of itself. (Not quite, but almost.)

My honey had some coffee ready when he woke me up, and I got myself some for the road. He was impressed that I could get ready in 20 minutes. (As if I’m usually the slow one…har! ) We showed up at Best Buy.

There was a fucking parking lot full. And yes, at 3:30am or so, there was a line. The front of the line, people were in sleeping bags. The had fucking camped at Best Buy. What the fuck? Camped. At BestBuy. Heard as we went to get in line, the earliest camped out from 4pm yesterday afternoon. Geez louise.

The line snaked around the building, and behind it, and back around the side of the building again. There were hundreds of people. Chip guessed 500, but I think it was more by the time we were done–that was earlier in the wait. Seven hundred, maybe? More?

A fucking shitload, man. Jesus H. Christ in heaven.

They were pretty orderly. A guy in line behind us kept us entertained as we waited. He had forgotten his coat. His wife said he was crazy. He was there to get mp3 players for his kids. A 9 and a 12 year old. He reminisced about his first video game system (with Pong), and back in the day when calculators were big techo-shit. He was nice, and friendly enough.

Anywho, when we finally got it, it was wall-to-wall shopping flesh, man. We were in there long enough to realize we weren’t going to get any of the  things we wanted to get. We left. Grabbed some more coffee (and some lotto tickets), and headed over to Office Depot. There was a shorter line, and we’d had enough of the line-standing experience. Of course, the checkout line is about 45 more minutes of fun. Not. I came home and took a long-ass nap.

The ultimate outcome is that we ened up with a very good deal on two Battery Backup power supplies for the computer. Not very sexy. Not very exciting. But at least I won’t be cussing when the power blips and I lose some work when my pc shuts down, man.

I also won’t be hauling my ass out of bed at 3am and going out to shop next Black Friday, either, man. No way!