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Black Friday
Beware of crazy drivers doing shopping at 6:00am it is a total madhouse on the road.They are going from sale to sale and some of the drivers are not use to us commuting.only five more days.BE SAFE.This is the biggest shopping day in the U.S.
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Originally posted by Gojohnnygo.
Beware of crazy drivers doing shopping at 6:00am it is a total madhouse on the road.They are going from sale to sale and some of the drivers are not use to us commuting.only five more days.BE SAFE.This is the biggest shopping day in the U.S.
Beware of crazy drivers doing shopping at 6:00am it is a total madhouse on the road.They are going from sale to sale and some of the drivers are not use to us commuting.only five more days.BE SAFE.This is the biggest shopping day in the U.S.
https://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/shopping.htm
BUT, BUT, BUT: Thanks for the warning! Safe riding to you.
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Thank you, for the info, I was wrong what I was trying to say is about the early commuter to beware.Some of the drivers are just not use to us.Thank you be safe. Welcome to BF Philosraptor. RIDE SAFE.
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I think gojohnnygo's advice is more weighty when we consider that those 6:00 AM drivers he is talking about are still groggy from Thanksgiving glutteny overload.
It is documented FACT that turkey and mincemeat pie make drivers lathargic and, when they are paying attention, hostile.
Thanks for the warning. I will wait until 1:00 PM when these drivers are taking naps.
It is documented FACT that turkey and mincemeat pie make drivers lathargic and, when they are paying attention, hostile.
Thanks for the warning. I will wait until 1:00 PM when these drivers are taking naps.
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The, "Church of the Holy Plastic Card" (the mall) is packed out, with the freeway ramp backed up for hundreds of feet.
I never worship there. Like some Native Americans, I don't believe in fences...
I never worship there. Like some Native Americans, I don't believe in fences...
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Regarding "Black Friday".
It is a symptom of the scourge of... affluenza! Read all about it at:
https://www.pbs.org/kcts/affluenza/
The antidote can be viewed at:
https://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/
And for our UK buddies, there is:
https://www.buynothingday.co.uk/
And it's always in season to peruse a book called "Unplugging the Christmas Machine"; here's one minister's take on the subject:
https://www.fusmadison.org/Sermons/ch...2010-12-02.htm
Funny, I caught myself just short of inserting a link to books at Amazon Dot ***, just to show you how insidious this disease really is!
It is a symptom of the scourge of... affluenza! Read all about it at:
https://www.pbs.org/kcts/affluenza/
The antidote can be viewed at:
https://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/
And for our UK buddies, there is:
https://www.buynothingday.co.uk/
And it's always in season to peruse a book called "Unplugging the Christmas Machine"; here's one minister's take on the subject:
https://www.fusmadison.org/Sermons/ch...2010-12-02.htm
Funny, I caught myself just short of inserting a link to books at Amazon Dot ***, just to show you how insidious this disease really is!
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So of "Black Friday" isn't the biggest shopping day of the year, please enlighten me as to why in the hell I have to be at work (retail slave boy) from 6:30 am until 10:00 pm? In a business that bases labor hours on dollars and # number of tickets per hour I would think that it would have to be pretty frickin serious to have me work for 15 hours. Urban Legend my rear fender.
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My daughters LOVE to go shopping on back Friday. (go figure)
One is old enough to drive but I won't let her on this day.
I'm going to drop them off at the mall and take my bike & cell phone to a nearby, little used road for a 3-5 hour spin. They will call me when their $ runs out.
That's my kind of shopping!
One is old enough to drive but I won't let her on this day.
I'm going to drop them off at the mall and take my bike & cell phone to a nearby, little used road for a 3-5 hour spin. They will call me when their $ runs out.
That's my kind of shopping!
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Originally posted by Raiyn
So of "Black Friday" isn't the biggest shopping day of the year, please enlighten me as to why in the hell I have to be at work (retail slave boy) from 6:30 am until 10:00 pm? In a business that bases labor hours on dollars and # number of tickets per hour I would think that it would have to be pretty frickin serious to have me work for 15 hours. Urban Legend my rear fender.
So of "Black Friday" isn't the biggest shopping day of the year, please enlighten me as to why in the hell I have to be at work (retail slave boy) from 6:30 am until 10:00 pm? In a business that bases labor hours on dollars and # number of tickets per hour I would think that it would have to be pretty frickin serious to have me work for 15 hours. Urban Legend my rear fender.
The point is that "busiest day" is ambiguous between "most heavily trafficked" and "most sales/revenue". The day after Thanksgiving isn't the day when stores have the most sales, and it hasn't been for a while. I think it's still the day when the most people are out, though.
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Originally posted by philosoraptor
Raiyn,
The point is that "busiest day" is ambiguous between "most heavily trafficked" and "most sales/revenue". The day after Thanksgiving isn't the day when stores have the most sales, and it hasn't been for a while. I think it's still the day when the most people are out, though.
Raiyn,
The point is that "busiest day" is ambiguous between "most heavily trafficked" and "most sales/revenue". The day after Thanksgiving isn't the day when stores have the most sales, and it hasn't been for a while. I think it's still the day when the most people are out, though.
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I was riding to work at 5 am and look what i see 50 to 60 people lined up ready to push the doors down of a local dollar store.A DOLLAR STORE.Yea lets bust the doors down for a cheap ass gift.
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Here in the UK we don't have 'Black Friday', our busiest shopping day is either the 22-23 of December of the first say of the sales wich is the 2nd of January, so we have another month to go before the shop keepers can do 20% of their anual turnover in a single week