Black Friday Shopping

Decided we needed the experience of shopping on black Friday and it will definitely not happen again. Getting up at 4 a.m. to go shopping was not my idea of fun! We left home at 4:30 and headed to Walmart. The parking lot was already full!! What??!! Inside was just a zoo. After finally getting over to the tv section, we discovered that they were already sold out of the Sony 32 inch that we needed. It had to be that make as it was the only one that would fit in the bin of the motorhome in front of the water tank. It took another 10 minutes to get through the mob and out the door. I was sure by now that everyone in Yuma was getting a new tv for Christmas. There are 3 Walmarts in Yuma and apparently they were all packed.

We then headed back to Radio Shack in time for their 5:30 opening and there were only half a dozen people waiting at the door. I was behind one woman who was buying the Kodak camera that I wanted and she wanted two and they only had two!! The second one was on display so the clerk told the lady she would have to come back later to pick it up, so she changed her mind. We were supposed to check back in an hour so we headed back home to wait and just as we walked in the door, radio shack called to say the camera was ready, so back we went. This time we picked up a new router. There weren't any left on the shelf, but one of the clerks thought there might be one left in the back and sure enough, he found one. By now it was just after 6 so decided to head into town to check out Sears. After lining up there for about 20 minutes, we found out that they were out of the tv's as well.

At least when we left there, it was starting to get light. From there we headed to the Casino to have the early, cheap, $1.99 breakfast. We are usually never up early enough for that. Of course we had to play the machines for a little while and I lost the $30 that I saved on the camera. (I did make that up last Monday though)

It was now about 9 a.m. and we had to go home past the Yuma Palms Mall where all the major stores are, so decided to just try Best Buy and see if by some miracle they still had the tv that we wanted. Sure enough, there were 2 left and a young couple grabbed one and we got the other. Now, we had to lineup to pay. There was a blue line on the floor to follow as it wound its way through the CD and movie dvd racks in the back of the store. We got to chat with friends that were also in the line. About an hour and a half later, we finally got up to the till and paid $377 for the 32inch Sony tv.

I'm pretty sure that will be my one and only black friday shopping experience. It is hard to believe there is a recession when we saw people with their carts loaded. My next shopping experience will be at the outlet shops in Las Vegas at Christmas. The flyers are arriving with all the Christmas specials, but can't think of anything I need at the moment!

Ron got the tv set up with no problem, but it took me a few days to get the new router set up and I still can't download the software for my camera, but Picasa seems to work with it, so will use that.