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    Default You know it's Christmas shopping season when...

    I finally went out and braved the insanity today.

    I think the telling moment was when I was at the mall and I saw a gargantuan sized SUV parked with the engine running in one of the prime parking spaces (when one owns a gas guzzler like that its their God given right to waste gasoline right?). Anyways I walk by the front of this thing and lo and behold there's some 35-ish upper class gal sitting there with the engine running, and yakking away (and I mean yakking) on her cell phone. Riding shotgun was an elderly woman, whom I would assume her mother.

    I see this at the mall every December. I guess that I should have been thankful the SUV was actually parked this time. Usually the soccer mom is doing circles in the parking lot for half an hour just to make sure she gets a good parking space. God forbid if these gals actually had to walk.

    A co-worker of mine had an even more harrowing experience. He gets off work at 5 AM, so last Friday he decided that he would go stand in line at K-Mart for the insane early bird sale. They had a "limited quanity" of $20 DVD players. He gets into the store, picks one up and as he's shopping for DVD's and has his back turned, someone lifts the thing from his shopping cart. Real Christmas spirit there, huh.

    Well, I'm done ranting. Any Christmas shopping dispatches from hell that you'd like to share?
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    Default Re: You know it's Christmas shopping season when...

    Yes!!!!! I have one!! Last year was the first year I decided to battle the crowds the day after Thanksgiving. I was appalled that people had their babies and little kids sitting in the cart at like 5 am. I walked past this couple who had what looked like practically a newborn in the cart along with two twin boys that were no older than 3, and they were all kind of whimpering, the wife was yelling to the husband, " hurry up grab two of them" then she looks at her kids and was like " can you please be quiet".................and I saw that all day! Kids that little don't belong in a packed store, shoved in a shopping care, with their parents rushing around like crazed people, that early in the morning! Get a sitter if you have to, if you can't do that then don't go at 5 am, if you must go at 5 am and take your children, then don't bitch at them when they are crying!!!
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