Black Black Friday

From what I have been reading from other folks on the Internet is that they have seen some unruly behavior today during black Friday shopping . . . I have heard the stories, but I have never actually seen it myself. Well, not in real life.

I didn’t have this experience.

In fact, mine were all quite the opposite, yet I wasn’t standing in front of BestBuy or Wal-Mart for a cheap-o computer or laptop at 5 a.m. in the freezing cold. I will tell you I am very dissappointed by those early risers that went to my local Circuit City in Midvale, Utah. They left coffee cups and scatterings of their early morning garbage all over the sidewalks. I did find some great deals though - mostly DVDs. Interesting though, I didn’t even see one XBOX 360 the entire 6 1/2 hour shopping day.

I did have an a-ha experience of the most unlikely kind today. I was actually thinking about those little paper toilet covers that stores keep on the back of their toilets and how they often say “Provided by the Management for Your Protection.” Protection from what? Are they suggesting that their toilets are so terrible that we need the management to protect us from some unknown funk growing in the bathrooms? We all know what they are for . . . don’t try to sell it as a customer service tool. It just comes out the wrong way . . . no pun.