Originally Posted by
CathyBogart
I love Black Friday shopping, and :P
to anyone who says that being excited about getting gifts for others is stupid or materialistic. Go pick on something important, rather than knocking something fun and (usually) harmless.
If you are referring to my post, I did not say getting gifts for other is stupid. I buy lots of gifts for others for Christmas. I said the obsession with shopping on the day after Thanksgiving was stupid. There is a big difference.
People so rabid for a sale that they trample other people to death - stupid. People who will push down a pregnant woman and run right over the top of her to save a few bucks - stupid.
There was a picture in our local paper of the crowd waiting in line outside Walmart at 4:00 am. It was bitterly cold, with howling wind, that morning. There were people with babies and crying little children, out in the cold for hours, waiting for a store to open. Do I think that is stupid? Absolutely.
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