tinyE: All I can think of now is 500 suburbanites piled up outside a store clamoring to get in and beat the fuck out of whoever grabs the last Tickle Me Elmo or whatever the hell it is the kids want this year. :P
British soccer riots don't get this violent.
CarrionCrow: And now I'm having flashbacks to working Black Friday at a Walmart...
Thank you so much for that. >=P
JMich: That's why you want to shop smart, shop S-Mart!
CarrionCrow: I wouldn't shop if I went there. I'd just hang out with Bruce Campbell all day long. And it would be awesome.
I worked B. Dalton on several Black Fridays. Now being a bookstore it wasn't NEARLY NEARLY NEARLY as bad as Walmart, but it was inside of a mall, which made the entire place a surrealistic planet onto it's own. The best way to describe it would be in the movie "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" when they enter the 'Circus Circus'. Ten million kids running around, fucking flashing bulbs and Christmas Trees everywhere, Santa Clauses stationed every 25 feet, and that goddamn Christmas music blasting at a level loud enough to ensure they could fucking hear in up on the Space Shuttle!