My German Wife's first and last experience at Black Friday....

[Flabbergasted]

I'm not a shopper and neither is my wife but she did want an mp3 player for her new business so she got up at 4:00am to hit Jantzen Beach Mall at 5:00am. This was a first at experiencing the shopping frenzy on the famous "Black Friday"

At 5:00 in the morning there was literally no parking. This is a massive parking lot and a large mall with quite a few separated big box stores on the grounds.

She headed to Toys R Us first which was of course all sold out. Circuit City had a line out the door of several hundred people. So she decided to head to Radio Shack which opened at six.

Being one of the first five in line she expected to have a good shot at getting one of the mp3 players at about half price. Once the store opened she ran to the rack and then to the clerk who replied that they had sold out. She said it couldn't have been more than 5 seconds. She infers that they didn't even have any available.

She said, "This is a joke."

The clerk just waved his hand in a "what do I do fashion" and looked away.

In Target there was a group of people jut standing by a shelf. She stopped as well wondering what everyone was waiting for. Another frantic lady stopped and said, "Oh, what did I miss. I don't want to miss anything."

They replied, "Nothing we're just lost."

Perhaps this is the moral of the story.

She ended up with nothing.

Happy Black Friday...