Black Friday Shananigans

So Thanksgiving and Black Friday have come and gone but in the spirit of trying to catch everyone up here's what we did. Mom came up for Thanksgiving and cooked us a meal that was fit for about 15 folks. We had five. JuJu bought the most delicious honeybaked ham on the face of the earth and of course the baby daddy wanted to get in on some of the Black Friday deals.

Earlier in the week I had been looking at the deals and saw a 42" TV for 199.00 I of course have been wanting a new flat screen TV for our upstairs room to mount over the fire place. We have a big one downstairs and it would free up a lot of space if we could get ride of the entertainment center we have now. So we decided we would try it, but didn't really mention it again until Thursday morning. We looked through all the adds and about 10 AM I could see it in his eyes, he was getting dressed and said he was gonna run by Best Buy and see if there was a line. If there was he would stay and if not he would come home and go back later.

Fast forward 6 hours. He has been in line since 10 AM and now wants me to come take the evening shift so he can come eat Thanksgiving dinner and watch the Cowboys play. How could I say no? He was sitting line for me basically and secretly I was elated......I would then get about four uninterrupted hours of reading my new obsession, Twilight. So I bundled up and set out into the madness.

When I arrived at Best Buy I was shocked to see tents, chairs, sleeping bags, and a line of crazy folks wrapped around the building.......I could not believe it. So I went towards the police line taped off area where the baby daddy was standing and went under the rope. I immediately encountered the line nazi.

Line Nazi: "Oh, Oh, you tha wife, Your cool."
Me: Yep
Line Nazi: "Can't be too careful, folks be trying to skip in line."
Me: "I will be on the look out, we are just trading spots for a while so he can go eat."
Line Nazi: "Oh I know, we discussed strategies and such."
Me: Oh....thinking to myself, what kind of freaking strategy is there? You wait in line, they give you a ticket, you pick up your shit. Idiot proof.

I sit down to gloriously engross myself in Twilight and an hour later.......

Line Nazi: "You see them kids down there?"
Me: "Yea"
Line Nazi: "There were seven earlier but I have seen two walk up, I'm going to run them off."
Me: "You go get em"........psycho.

An still an hour later......

Line Nazi: "You see them folks in front of the girls in front of you."
Me: "Uh, Yes"
Line Nazi: "Well, there were two of them at first, but the wife keeps leaving and coming back and then there were four of them all swapping and taking shifts but they are not gettin three tickets. I already handed out numbers."
Me: "Do your numbers count?"
Line Nazi: "We can at least tell the Best Buy folks who was in line."
Me: "Do they care."
Line Nazi: "?????"
Me:........
LN:.......

yes, it was very akward silence as she contemplated the fact that her handing out small green pieces of paper with numbers on them probably would not be honored when the Best Buy folks came to give out the real numbers. I get why she was a psychopath about it. They had 15 of the TV's to sell. She was number 15. I felt like I was on Black Friday Survivor and I knew I had to keep my alliance with her strong because if anyone was getting voted out of this line it was NOT going to be me. I nodded and agreed with everything this crazy bitch said.

I could not help but laugh everytime I saw her wonder down towards where these kids were, they were partying making a night of it, complete with a keg in the back of one of the cars. I wished I was them for a minute or had in the very least brought my own beer, decided it was cold, and went back to reading about Bella and Edward......then I thought about how old I was for about 15 minutes no caring that I didn't have any beer......and then went back to reading.

The baby daddy returned about 8:30 p.m. and relieved me from my post. I warned him she was only getting worse as the night progressed, so he sat down with his back to her in hopes she would forget he was there. Highly unlikely. I trudged home to feed Sadie Marie and at 10 p.m. when they handed out the tickets I was still engrossed in Twilight, he texted and he had the GOLDEN TICKET NUMBER 15 for the TV. I was estatic and then I thought, Shit. She may just go to her car and bring back an oozy. Later I got the full story.

When time came to get the actual numbers this crazy lady jumped in front of Theron and got number 14, his number. He said he almost cussed her out until he realized he also was going to get a ticket. All that talk about shit being fair because of her numbers and only those who had been in line the whole time should get tickets and then boom, she went straight ghetto on Theron and skipped at the last minute. She better be glad I was gone or we would have gone from Survivor to Kung Fu Fighting on her ass.

Moral of the story......Watch out for Line Nazi's they will stab your ass in the back in a heartbeat. She should seriously be on Big Brother.

Y'all be good,

April

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Love y'all!