Finally, the day you’ve been waiting for has arrived: Black Friday.
This year, you’re committed to scoring all the best sales.
You’ve been scouring sale ads and websites for the past month…
…and you’ve prepared a list of all the presents you want to buy for all your friends and family for the holidays.
Maybe you even add on a little something to the list for yourself.
And now, with Thanksgiving over, you’re ready to get the best bargains on all your holiday gifts.
The night before, you set your alarm for 4 a.m., determined to get those early bird specials and beat the rush.
But when your alarm goes off the next morning, you decide that the stores will still be there in a few hours.
When you finally make it to the mall at 10 a.m., parking spaces are nowhere to be found.
But even that doesn’t prepare you for the calamity you’re about to encounter inside the mall.
Once you're inside, you can barely make your way through the crowds of people.
You find yourself getting shoved around on all sides.
Why did you ever think it was a good idea to subject yourself to this abuse?!
Every store you go into looks as though it has been picked over by a pack of wild animals.
None of the sales seem to be corresponding with the ads you found online.
When you do finally find something you were looking for, the line for the cash register is so long that you end up abandoning it.
You can feel your perfect Black Friday plan crumbling before your eyes.
Finally, in one store you find a pair of boots you’ve been eyeing for months—and they’re 50 percent off!
But the one pair left isn’t in your size.
Whatever. You can just wear an extra pair of socks. The offer is too good to pass up.
You leave the mall with a few scratches, a new pair of boots that doesn’t fit and none of the presents you were hoping to get for anyone else.
Feeling defeated, you tell yourself that you’ll make a better plan for next year.
Then you start getting ready for Cyber Monday.
