I planned on adding a few computers to the house this year with all the savings going on today. Got up at 2am to be in line at BestBuy by 3am. At 3am, employees were to give 'doorbuster' tickets for certain specials to whoever was in line. That wouldve got me a nice little desktop for bout 200 bux. Something small but still more power than what Im currently using. As usual, the line ran the length of the store front, down the side, around a semi trailer, and back to the front. Man, probably 200 hundred people at 3am in 17 degree weather. The tents were set up and plastic was covering people as they slept on the ground. And get this, I watched 3 guys piss in the corner probably 20 feet from the store entrance.
This landscape of people reminded me off two things; a time in my life when I called a frigerator box home, and the time when my brother and I waited on tickets for Paige & Plant. The latter of the two was the best.
I didnt make it in the store the first time. Too many people, too much social anxiety, not enough coffee. Went back about 6am when I could actually get inside to look around and it was still more than I could take. Turns out after talking to a manager that the $200 computer I went to buy and wouldve stood in line at least 3 hours for didnt even come in on the shipment. I would have been pissed, pissed, pissed. BUT, because of that they were offering the higher line cpu s for a little discount. Sounds like a little bait & switch to me. The best I could do for the money was a $750 unit. Nope sorry. The laptop I was also looking for was out of stock, BUT I could go up another model and another $500. Nope sorry. Also, IF they had what I had come to get in the first place, the word was the line to check out was at least 2 more hours. Wow.
I ended up buying a different compaq desktop at the OfficeCrappo for a reasonable price, and also another couple hundred gig of hd space to compensate for our ever growing boob thread, and the laptop will just have to be ordered online. O well.
The questions of all this ramble is this..... Is it really worth it?When I was younger this hubbub was fun but now I have trouble making myself drive to the store. But the mother in law and my lady will make today an 18 hour day and still have a smile on the face when they come home. Without alcohol helping either! Not to say they wont be hammered by midnite but thats a different story I guess. Maybe the holiday shopping means more to the other gender but I see it as a pain. Hows others opinions about these festive times?
