Speaking of Black Friday sales, about 5 years ago when I was visiting family in Atlanta for Thanksgiving week, my sister-in-law got a bug up her ass to go to a local CompUSA (now long gone) midnight sale on BF to get a deal on a monitor for her son for Christmas. No one wanted to go with her but for equal parts sheer stupidity and curiousness, I went with her. There was a disorganized "line" of about 200 people at 11pm (mostly Asians and whiteys) and when the doors opened at 12, it was a fucking stampede to get in. All semblance of civility went out the door and I had people shoving past me to grab a dvd or a hard drive off a shelf even though I was just kind of hanging back watching and making sure sis-in-law didn't get hurt or needed help carrying her purchase. Overall, that night ranked up there with some of the worst GA pit shows I've been in.
It was a eye opening experience and not in a good way.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
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when i was in college i worked at montgomery ward. we had a couple hundred furby's. anyone remember those? as the doors opened i could not believe the stampede for those things.
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Weren't those like Gremlins rip-offs?creep wrote:when i was in college i worked at montgomery ward. we had a couple hundred furby's. anyone remember those? as the doors opened i could not believe the stampede for those things.
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creep wrote:when i was in college i worked at montgomery ward. we had a couple hundred furby's. anyone remember those? as the doors opened i could not believe the stampede for those things.
My sister used to have one of those, like 10 years ago. I remember being a douche and 'overfeeding' him until it got sick or something. Pushing its tongue repeatedly was the funniest thing on Earth...
"woaaah-wooah-woooah"
and then it'd burp like a maniac while saying "noooo-gustaaa-wooah-woahhhh"
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Larry B. wrote:
and then it'd burp like a maniac while saying "noooo-gustaaa-wooah-woahhhh"
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mogwai rip offPandemonium wrote:Weren't those like Gremlins rip-offs?creep wrote:when i was in college i worked at montgomery ward. we had a couple hundred furby's. anyone remember those? as the doors opened i could not believe the stampede for those things.