Shopping Spree

Today is my parents' 26th anniversary. My wife and I therefore decided we were going to buy them a gift since today is supposed to be the biggest shopping day of the year. It sounds pretty crazy, but they really needed a new phone for their house and we figured today would be the best day to go out and buy it.

Now allow me to back track. Last night, after three, yes count em, three amazing Thanksgiving dinners, we went out with another couple to see the movie Rent. It was pretty good. The movie let out at around 2:00 a.m. so we decided we would swing by the local Best Buy to see what the line looked like. It was totally out of control. It was at that time that I decided I would not go to the store at 5:00 a.m. as I had originally intended. I remembered that someone had once told me they only let a certian amount of people in the store at one time for safety reasons. Therefore, had I actually gone at 5:00, I would have waited outside the store forever in the cold anyways.

So we decided we would go later in the day, and we still were able to get whatever we wanted. We bought my parents a really nice phone system, and they love it. We also got ourselves itrips for our ipods so now we can listen to them in the car. We felt it was productive outing.

The one thing we couldn't believe, though, was how many people were at the store. It was out of control. I realize Best Buy is a great store, but the number of people was insane. It was very hard to get someone o help you if you had a question, and it was chaos to wait in line to pay. However, I do want to give kudos to Best Buy; they were well stocked and tried there best to move things along in an orderly fashion.

One word of advice though. When it was time to check out, the lines were longer than you can ever imagine. Picture waiting in line for a ride at Disney World and then you might understand. However, my wife and I decided to pay at the counter over by the cell phones. The guy in line was finishing as we walked up, we paid, and we were out the door. We didn't even wait a minute to pay. If you ever find yourselves in a situation like this, use this advice, it will help you.

Peace for now,
Daniel