Post here if you will not, no way, NEVER set foot in a store on Thanksgiving Day.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

45. No.

I worked retail in the past and hated getting up for those 6 am bright and early shoppers on Black Friday.

I had a woman come up to the jewelry department just as we opened at 6 am, and wanted me to show her something. I told her that I could not, under the insurance regulations, until I had all the boards of jewelry out in the cases and the safe was locked. She glared at me but there was nothing I could do.

At the other end of the work day, I have had women stand around looking at silver bracelets at midnight, or trying to buy one on Christmas Eve when their credit card won't go through at 6 pm when we are supposed to be closed. I remember what I did as soon as I got off work on that Christmas Eve: Stumbled out to the bench in the vestibule to the outer doors and cried for about thirty minutes because I was so exhausted and needed to rest before I could even get to my car. On Thanksgiving and Christmas, all I did was sleep.

I can't stand on my feet anymore all day. I was in departments where there was literally no chair behind the counter to sit on for eight hours, and I was selling so called "fine jewelry" in a lease department that I was ashamed of. Basically it was lumps of coal. Diamonds (cubic carbon) with black spots in it.

And the other people didn't know what a ten-power jeweler's loupe was, or what it was for. You use it to grade diamonds if you've had the GIA courses in Diamond Grading and Colored Stone Grading, which I took many years ago. But these idiots had a large 4 inch diameter magnifying glass you would use to read print with, and had no idea what I was talking about.