Good morning all..... grab your favorite cup of coffee and join me here for a few minutes. I need to talk about something that I see keeps getting worse every year, and it makes me feel ashamed to be part of this human race.
This morning I want to talk a bit on... Who Are We?? Have you really stopped to think about it Have we gone crazy People?? Are we humans or wild savages? Are we like the wild cavemen that fight over any little item? Why are we acting like savages, grabbing and fighting and pushing, and trampling our fellow man...for one night..... and for what?????..... WHY????? Just to grab that one sale item.. that you never wanted all year long till now? That you might never use or maybe once and a blue moon would use? Have no room for it but want it just because it's on a "SALE ", or if you give it to someone they re-gift it because they don't really want it either, and for what.. because the corporations say "only chance to come and save.for one night"... yea right.... PEOPLE WAKE UP!!!If you don't spend that buck and fight over it, you save that buck and more anyway! It may cost you more in gas to go to that store just to get in a fight, so you can grab that one item, have some one Pepper Spray you because they want it, or you wait at the door to get in and when it finally opens you are in front and fall down and get trampled on, maybe break a few ribs, then have to go to the hospital, or get arrested and have to call someone to get you out of jail, because a fight breaks out and your right in the middle of it !!
I never have been one that would venture out on Thanksgiving after dinner to go shopping, push my way through the wild mad crowds, getting trampled on, pushed out of the way, just to grab AN ITEM THAT WAS ON SALE!!! Believe me I thought about it a few Thanksgiving nights as I went to sleep and wondered if it would be worth it to me or not to venture out. I thought nothing is that important to me to risk my life and health over so I stayed at home year after year, comfy, warm, and safe. In the morning when I was reading the year after year, and it was all over the TV.... getting worse every year... I'm really glad I don't go out and I just stay at home. I read article upon article about Black Friday Fights Break out and the more I read about Stabbing, Fighting, Riots, Pepper spray used I have to say......... I'm ashamed...of us as humans and at the big corporations that cause these big riots and fights to break out.
THEY instigate these situations and sit back and watch the show....Twenty people, including children, were injured when a woman at a San Fernando Valley Walmart store used mace against other customers in what authorities referred to as a "competitive shopping" incident!! Competitive Shopping??? CHILDREN got hurt... COME ON PEOPLE!!! It don't matter to the big corporations what happens to their customers as long as they make that so called "BIG BUCK",. The workers at these stores are put through hell as well as caught in the cross fire of a lot of customers rage and not compensated for it, they are expected to do it or loose their jobs. I'm sure they would rather be home safe and warm with their families as well but cant because " The company" says they have to be there to sell the stuff, and sometimes put their lives in danger as well.
Why do we act like savages just because something is on sale? Any other time of the year it could go on sale and no one wants it... but heaven forbid it go on sale Black Friday and we we turn into Dr Jeckle and Mr Hide.
PEOPLE...... PLEASE....... enough is enough...
what are we teaching our children by acting this way? We try hard all year long... year after year... to teach them right from wrong, not to start a fight, not to be greedy, to share and help others, to be kind and courteous,to learn how to save money.And what do we do??? We turn around and for the one day forget everything we try so HARD to teach them... and SHOW them... it's okay to act like mad crazy people, It's okay to start a fight, it's okay to be greedy, it's okay to disrespect others.... really this is what you want your kids to learn???
Is it really worth getting trampled on...wasting gas running all over town ... getting into fights in the store for all to see... possibly getting arrested for being in the middle of a fight in the store... grabbing pushing shoving other, getting peppered sprayed,ending up injured and possibly in the hospital emergency room and for what??? The bragging rights to say I did it I pushes an old lady down and grabbed the item right out of her hands,I knocked over people I shoved my way through the crowds,I got all my shopping done in one night. Then you look at your credit card bill when it comes in and wonder how are you going to pay this big bill and how long will it take you to pay this shopping trip off because one night of pure insanity. All you think about is shop, shop, shop and think you are saving a buck, when actually you realize you didn't really save anything in fact you spent more when you add up the gas you spent running all over town and the next town and the next town looking for that one item .
I say NO more... lets not let these big corporations run our lives like this any more and tell us "we have to shop" "we have to spend" "we have to get there that day or we never will get it" get into fights over items just to help line their pockets with OUR hard earned money!! Put not only our lives in possible danger but sometimes also putting our children's lives in danger as well because we have to take them with us because of no one to watch them while you act like a crazy person.
People lets get back to acting like civilized human beings, not wild savages out for blood. If buying that one gift on that night is that important, and you can't get it any other time of the year, or any other place than I feel sorry for you,and you better rethink what is important because you have truly forgotten what Christmas is suppose to be all about.You have 365 days to shop not just one night... why risk your life and your health for one night just because the big Corporations want you to come spend money. Lets try our best to get back to being Human beings,showing our children the right way to act, take back our lives from these big corporations, dont let them tell us what and when we have to do things. Get back the true christmas spirit
Thank you for letting me rant and rave and I hope and pray that this helps someone to see things differently for next year. And I hope this wont continue to get out of hand......... Remember to share a smile and brighten up someone elses day.......... until the next time........... Merry Christmas to all.
