where was yo ass at 4am this morning?

i’ll tell you where mine was…

…in bed. asleep. hopefully not alone (in which case, still in bed but possibly not asleep). but never mind that now.

i can tell you where my ass wasn’t – at wal-mart. or target. or somewhere else with the promise of a seventy-two inch high definition plasma tv for forty-seven dollars, quanities limited*.

(* = they had one at the store in akron, ohio…unless you’re in akron, in which case it was the store in hollywood, florida, and so on and so on)

but it got your ass up, out of bed, and in their store with your check card in hand – fuck it! let the games begin!

not for me…

we were discussing this at harold’s place earlier (and f.y.i. – he’s now at the atomic tattoo on burnet road in north austin, email him at tattooharold@gmail.com and get some ink did!) and none of us were planning on shopping today. of course, we’re all broke, too – but we’re still not buying into the black friday hype.

and speaking of, why does it always have to be a black thing?

we watched the old school charlie brown thanksgiving special we all know and love, but followed it with a new one which was all historically based, which was cool…but it got me thinking about his xmas one, where he talks about how xmas has gone all commercial, and this was back before malls and department stores opened at midnight or 4am or whatever…

charlie brown = nostrodamas? who knew?

we all have those friends that this is THERE day. hell, thanksgiving is no longer the holiday for them any more…just a way to get a meal in you to carb load and get energy for the REAL holiday of shopping on friday. kinda scary, really. i remember STANDING in the middle lane of I35 a couple years ago at 12:22pm because traffic was more slammed than it would typically be seventeen hours later at 5pm on a normal friday. i got out in the gridlock (this was just outside the mammoth outlet malls (plural ’cause there’s two right across the street from each other) in san marcos, texas) and noticed my car had something none of the others did – american license plates.

everyone around me was a mexican national.

quick joke – you know what they call thanksgiving in mexico? thursday!

so go out and see what kind of deals you can dig up. i’m single with next to no family…i have, maybe, three or four gifts to buy – and at least one of those is always a gift card. i don’t need to hit the mall at 3am – i can go on some random tuesday and be done in under an hour. or better yet, do it online. the time and gas i’ll save will more than make up for the cash i’d save at the time this bit posts…