As if Friday weren't bad enough?

[Lyse]

I don't know if this is in the right spot - if not, please help.

I was running a few errands with my niece Wednesday, and one of the places that we stopped was at Michaels. Got my knitty goodness and was at the register checking out when I glanced over at the stack of fliers on the counter.

It was an ad for some big sale. Okay, fair enough. I knew that Black Friday was coming. But then I actually registered what it said and looked at the poor cashier like

The sale was for Thursday afternoon/evening!!!! Because, Black Friday isn't enough to inflict on the gallant retail workers; no, now they have to leave their families in the middle of Thanksgiving dinner to go sell people plastic flowers? And it turns out that this was not the only store in the area that was having sales on Thursday night.

I can understand the reasoning behind having some stores open on the holiday - at least for restricted hours. Things come up and you might discover that the cat shredded the last roll of toilet paper, the kid dumped out the last of the milk, you get slammed by a flu bug and need something to soothe you.

But has anyone ever had an actual emergency for anything that can be bought at a craft store?!

(Sorry for rambling - I am tired and still have a few hours before I can flee home to my bed. )

[Anakah]

Even worse our Mall out here opened at midnight to have a really early black friday... I felt bad for the workers but it was pretty cool to be able to shop when I just got off of work. Where I work there are no such thing as holidays. We never close. It's a casino hehe. I've learned to move holidays to where I have actual days off.

[wagegoth]

Big Lots and Kmart were both open on Thursday. It just gets crazier every year.

[Kogarashi]

Walmart's always open on Thanksgiving. The 24-hour supercenters only close Christmas Eve at 6pm and don't reopen until the morning after Christmas, around 7am. That's it.

[Erin]

My dad is knitting an afghan, and you'd think the world ended everytime he runs out of yarn. (seems like a lot of the skeins of Lion Brand Thick & Quick have been a bit shorter than normal)

I keep having to run up to Michael's (or Hobby Lobby) to stock up on the yarn for him. (which I do not mind at all...I'm a crocheter AND a knitter and I will cheerfully buy yarn for my dad...)

We were going to go up to Michael's for the sale that afternoon, but ended up not getting there because we got stuck in traffic downtown on the way home from dinner. A yarn store is probably the only store I would have visited on Thanksgiving evening for a special sale. But then, I'm weird for buying anything crochet or knitting related. (I buy yarn like I'm saving up for the Apocalypse)

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I have you beat Muahahahahaha....

As a result of the above, we were $20k over salesplan for Thursday, so corporate's quest to make Thanksgiving the Day Before Black Friday seems to be succeeding.

Speaking of knitting...one of our Salvation Army bell ringers attached her bell to her foot, so she could use her hands to knit something while she was sitting there. Pretty cool.