While buzzing around on CNN today I discovered the following article: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/28/black.friday.violence/index.html
And this article really makes me wonder: have we as a nation finally lost our minds? First of all (and not to make light of the issue), has anyone else noticed that Wal-Mart is a crappy store? Why in the world would 2,000 people gather outside at 5 a.m. and then trample someone to death in order to enter? How good were those sales, exactly? How do you not notice you’re stepping on a human body?
I know that money is tight for almost everyone at this point, but is anything on sale that you really can’t get online or somewhere else or, say, without killing someone?
For the love of all that is good and holy, don’t we all have enough junk already as it is? I’m sure there is some sort of adrenaline high surrounding the whole “camping out in the Wal-Mart parking lot” experience, but to become so caught up seems, well, mad. Here’s our best foot forward to the world: on the eve of our national holiday celebrating good will and thanksgiving, we gathered underneath the glowing lights of a retailer known for its mistreatment of our fellow citizens. Before the sun rose, the doors began to open and in our raging excitement, we rushed towards them, mindlessly asphyxiating someone along the way.
