Friday, November 28, 2008

Black Friday Madness

This morning I participated, for the third year in a crazy tradition of
shopping in the early a.m. at multiple stores-Black Friday Madness!
But never have I experienced the madness of Wal Mart first hand.
I woke up at 4 a.m. got ready and left for Wal Mart to try to
get a 4.5 qt 250 watt Kitchen Aid Mixer for $130.
I walked in received a map and proceeded to find the Mixers in
pallets in the center aisles all around the store and wrapped in black plastic.
And there I saw there were four women camped around the Kitchen Aids.
They had been there since 3:30 a.m. and their carts were blocking the Mixers.
Did I mention it was a door buster?
And there were only 10 Kitchen Aids and 15-20 women standing around them :)
As soon as it was 5 I heard a wooshing sound as the plastic was ripped off all the surrounding pallets and then I
was shoved from behind and squished up against another women ahead of me. All the while
I was being pushed hands were reaching around me and grabbing.
People were yelling and shoving it was INSANE.
I got my hands on a mixer, grabbed it by the handles and started to try
and get away. Suddenly another woman grabbed the mixer by the bottom
and started pulling it from me. Praise the Lord I had the handles
because I twisted the box gave it a hard yank and left the lady behind as I
headed up to the checkout. I was DONE with Wal Mart.
But once I got to the next store I realized in the struggle I had lost
my cell phone. So I went back to Wal Mart looked around the scene
of the struggle and didn't find it. So I went to Customer Service left my info
and headed back to Target. All the while I was thinking,
"So I got a mixer and lost a cell phone, is that the price I have to pay for a mixer?"
I was pretty sad but Joe was so sweet he was just happy I had not
gotten hurt by any crazy shopper women.
Later Joe stopped by Wal Mart and they had found it!
So, I am pretty sure I am never doing a Door Buster at Wal Mart again! But I am happy
to have gotten a Kitchen Aid and not a punch in the eye.

8 comments:

Shawna said...

You are a fiery woman! I told you I had complete faith in you!

Did you get the washer and dryer?

S

Lynn said...

Oh - hilarious! You should've had some of us go with you and we could've fought together :) I missed not going with a girl group - we've done that for the past 5 yrs. I think

MagenRanae said...

Way to go on the mixer, Jessie. I'm so not surprised about your experience - I'm not a big fan of this tradition. But, maybe I should save that for my blog!

How'd you do at CVS? And, did you make it home in time for Joe to go to work?

Ben and Kristi Graves said...

oh my word! way to go. you are brave. :) we get to see you in 3 weeks!!!!!!

Jessie said...

True Lynn, it is more fun to shop with others and there is safety in numbers :)

Rachel said...

Way to go! You went by yourself? :(

CVS was awesome, by the way - I went on Thanksgiving morning.

Reagan said...

That's aweseome! I am trying to picture the madness. I've heard that wal-mart in particular gets crraaazzzyyy with people pushing and grabbing. way to beat it!

Jessie said...

I did go by myself which was fine ( it is more fun in a group)-it worked out great because I only bought the things I needed ya know?I got in and got out, no waiting in lines and I didn't wander around and get a bunch of extra stuff I didn't need. Reagan and I had this conversation today. But also I was back home before 7 a.m.