Despute the fact that I had said I'd rather be dipped in hot oil than shop on Black Friday, I ended up at
Walmart at 7:15 and at Michael's by 7:40.
Walmart was busy, but I had 1 goal, and that was the $79.99 GameCube. Since you have to pay for those in the Electronics dept, and there was miraculously no line, I was in & out in under 15 minutes! (The clerk told me that it was smart to get there around 7:00-7:30, bc the 6 am fanatics are done, and the people trying to beat 8 am haven't arrived. Who knew?)
I then hit Michaels and it was everything I expected Walmart to be. There were lines 25-30 people deep at each register. They were marking coupons there, too, but only bc you couldn't move around to shop, nonetheless check-out, so the manager was taking pity.
I had only gone to buy the MM toolkit, and was just about to give up bc I wasn't going to get 60% off bc it was marked down, and I was not standing in a 30 minute line for anything less than 60% off, when they opened the register at Framing!! I was standing right there, actually leaning on that counter! So I bought it at 30% off, figuring I might as well since I was there...
