I was going to get up before I went to bed and write something, just in case you thought I might do that in honor of today being Black Friday in US retail, and then I remembered that my Mom raised crazy children but not stupid ones.
I was impressed watching all the TV commercials yesterday and reading the papers with all the inserts (the newspapers actually looked like the Sunday newspapers in terms of thickness, didn't they?) at the early hours so many stores had for today. And the rewards so many offered for sleep deprivation.
If, for instance, your city hall opened at 4 A.M. and gave you a 25% discount on overdue/past-due property taxes, would you line up the way you stood out out in front of Best Buy this morning trying to get one of the twenty 1080p HDTVs they had for under $500?
What if the state DMV office had offered a driver's license or vehicle registration for half-off, for the first one hundred folks through the door when they opened at five? Heck, at DMV, what if they just let you pick the photo for the license instead of keeping it a secret until after it's been laminated? (My photo ALWAYS look like a raccoon having a seizure because of the black rings under my eyes and how the camera always catches me in mid-blink).
And if the IRS gave you a 10% discount on your earned income credit for stopping in between 4 and 6 AM, would the line in front of the building look like the mob circling the Target trying to score a Wii console?
You ponder those questions. I'm heading out to the local church because if I get there before 5 AM they have a twofer on plenary indulgences and I need all the indulging I can get.
Sic transit bargains galore in every store.
-bill kenny
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