Nov 28 2008
Black Friday..
Is CRAZINESS!! I started my morning at 3 am and got ready to be at work by 4:45. As I pull into the parking lot my first thought was like OMG!!! Look at allll the cars! So I park and look up as I’m walking in the freezing weather and see the line is wrapped around the big building. This is my 5th year doing this and boy have I never been so scared for my life. I clocked in and headed to the front and we are waiting for them to open the doors at 5 am. So I get my register all prepared for the craziness and us cashiers stand at the end to wait and watch the stampede. Since the economy has been bad we weren’t expecting this many people but man were we wrong. Very wrong. People started fighting outside the doors before we even opened them and that delayed the start of things. So finally they open the door and they have security at the door and a flood of people start coming in. Running as fast as they can with their carts. Pure craziness. I don’t think I would ever in my worst nightmare do the shopping that early in the morning. I get claustrophobic so all the people would make me want to pass out. Even at my register I felt like that. My first break I was trying to make my way to the back through the crazy crowd and then on my way back to the front after my break there was still soooo many people and I was at my register right after that and I started getting really hot feeling like I was going to faint. I looked at the end of my register and there is a sea of people and we had every register open except for the broken one. I am so happy to be home right now, I am going to go relax and read a good book. 
