Stomped to death

Today is Black Friday, a day where folks seem to lose their collective minds all in the name of a bargain. I must confess I have never in almost 36 years on this planet ever went out to shop on Black Friday. I came from humble folks aka po folks so the day after Thanksgiving was spent watching tv and eating…nice simple shit. Even when I got grown and came into a few shekels of my own I have never felt compelled to go out and experience the madness, shit I hate crowds so today is just not my day.

Now I admit every few years I see something advertised that almost makes me wanna get up at midnight, but no I like to sleep too much to deal with crazed folks trying to catch bargains. That said, in recent years it seems Black Friday has disintegrated into madness which is the point of my post. It seems this morning a Wal-Mart clerk on Long Island was trampled to death by a pack of folks who were described as almost taking the hinges off the door. Now if this shit wasn’t real, I would be laughing.

What kind of society are we when the spirit of the holidays is summed up by how much useless shit we can buy? Seriously, I was reading about a woman today whose idea of scaled down living was buying a 33 inch telly on sale at Best Buy…damn, that says a lot about us and why we are collectively fucked financially as a nation.

Seems no one remembers living within their means, we are on a quest to consume even when it can kill us. On this Black Friday, my heart goes out to the family of the Wal-Mart worker whose life was lost because we as a society seem to have lost our common sense.

As for me, I am going out to the tree lighting my town will hold tonight, take in the lights and sounds, maybe slip by Starbucks for a delicious hot chocolate and then come home and finish getting my eat on.

4 thoughts on “Stomped to death”

  1. What the hell is at Walmart that will cause anyone to behave like a savage. What kind of mentality would then make folks respond, “I’ve been on line since ____” when told that the store would close so that the injured man (he was pronounced dead later) and others could be medically treated? I don’t understand this evil, this lack of compassion, this obession with trinkets.

  2. I hadn’t heard of the senseless death. I am offering prayers that they will be comforted.

    “What kind of society are we when the spirit of the holidays is summed up by how much useless shit we can buy?”
    (((sigh)))) I just don’t know. It makes me so sad and weary sometimes. What is wrong with people?

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