This is the start of the holiday season and boy do we start it off right. Thanksgiving, its no longer a day of thanks, but a glutenous feast of food and booze followed by three NFL football games and then a tryptophan induced sleep. If you are not into any of these Thanksgiving traditions, you can now either sit in the dark listening to Christmas songs on Magic 93 or you can go shopping. Yes, you read that right, go shopping. It seems that many of the major stores like Sears, Bon Ton and others at the mall open at 8:00pm tonight. In fact, K-Mart will open at 6:00am Thanksgiving Day while our friends at WalMart are open 24/7 as usual. Many of the local retail monsters open at some point today with Black Friday like sales.
I have to tell you, I have a real problem with this on several avenues. First off, let me just say, "You greedy sons of bitches". Let your part time employees stay at home with their families for Thanksgiving. No, why would they do that? Instead their quest for every freakin penny has led them to taking people away from their Thanksgiving dinner. I have to tell you that this really ticks me off. People deserve a break and holidays should be that break. Hell, these poor workers will be bum rushed as soon as the doors open by every low life scum bag trying to get a 62 inch high def TV for $399.95. Of course the stores will only have 3 of them in stock. Wow, that just brought back memories of the Cabbage Patch Kid riot at Zayers. That one made the national news. If you never saw the video, just look it up on U-Tube. It's beautiful.
Speaking of Black Friday, it's now going extinct like the Do Do Bird. With all the stores open on Thanksgiving, Black Friday now becomes no big deal. The mindless discount dimwits will storm the stores right after dinner. Many will be drunk and tired from a day of gluttony. I would expect several fist fights and car accidents. I would think that WB Township will have extra cops on duty at triple time to handle the brawls and fender benders. Sure, Black Friday will still have some great deals, but the thrill of standing in line starting at 3am in the 17 degree weather is now gone. What has this country come too? I'll tell you. It's all about the almighty dollar, PERIOD! It's about retail chains milking everything they can from the marketplace.
The R2G would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.
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