SUBjECT: The after-thanksgiving sale stupidity

Ahem. First off i'd like to say, "Are you happy james, i finally am posting something on your blogger thing."

Now then, on to the subject at hand. There are many things stupid in this world: Hotwheels Car Collectors, Jim Carrey, smoking, eating raw sewage, Jim Carrey, etc. I'd like to address one that I have a direct and personal link to: The after-thanksgiving stupidity that seems to grip the entire world in its utter stupid frenzy. Every year there seems to be a ritual in which we eat till we look like the Macauley family after a dog feast (this would be thanksgiving day), and then for the next two days, the world apparently works off the poundage by acting like monkeys on crack, running around to store after store shopping for items they don't really need. And why? All because they are on sale. Yippie! Tell me why on earth we all need to go out and fight for a bar of soap that is markdown by 20 cents. And if you think this is all in my head, well then your wrong.

Case in point. A journalist was out by an area Walmart covering the after-thanksgiving sale. (The first problem i see with this is why the hell he wasn't out covering something far more important like wars in the middle east, or the food shortages of afgansitan, or the starving children of Boswania :). Here he is, his microphone clutched in hand, talking about the great sales as the doors are getting ready to open, at the ungodly hour of 5 in the morning. Suddenly the doors open, and what happens. Good ol' Mr. Journalist is mowed down by the frenzious rush of screaming shoppers, intent on getting that bottle of Clariol's Herbal Essences, at 10 percent off. Yeeup. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the stupidity of the after-thanksgiving sale.