bah humbug! thanksgiving marks the start of the "big show" for general commerce. when satan run companies can fill children's heads with B.S. about their product and drive parents into fist fights at Toys R' Us just to get their kids a bunch of crap that isn't any more fun than the box it came in. i can't take it. every year it just gets worse and worse. corporations make toys, then commercials, and hype this crap up so much that come black friday, (which now starts thanksgiving day) people are punching each other, all over what really is a piece of s***, just for their sugared up bratty kids.
while writing this post i am reminded of one of the most messed up stories that i could ever tell. a few years ago, i was at a local wal-mart getting some necessities with Kelli (now my wife). we purchased what we came for and left the store. here's where it gets great. we're almost to our car when we hear a woman, voice raspy from too much smoking with an incredibly thick pittsburgh accent, rocking a "Cops" sweatshirt from the early 90's, yell "Hey B***h!" to a roughly 90 year old woman who was completely innocent looking and, not to mention, totally un-fit for a fight. now apparently, this old woman had taken the last "tickle-me-elmo" from the shelf, and this monster of a white trash skank was actually trying to punch her in the face because she thought it should have been hers! all this in front of 3 of her own children and some dude (husband or boyfriend) who was not stopping her from assaulting this poor defenseless old woman. the woman did punch this old lady and was apprehended by security and most likely arrested in full view of her kids, one week before christmas over a stupid muppet. F-THAT. i haven't seen anything like that since, thank god, but i know that stuff happens all the time. i'm sure that you've all heard about the people that were shot waiting in line for the much anticipated PS3 and all the fights that took place waitning in line. i think that it's all bullsh** and it really stems back to corporate advertising. i'm sure you can remember commercials between your favorite saturday morning cartoons for what you thought were the greatest toys ever in the world, and i'm sure that your parents put up with at least a little crap to get you that cabbage patch kid or atari or what ever it was. now a days, these commercials and all the hype that they create make the kids beg and beg, so that parents will feel that they fell short if it's not under the tree come christmas morning, so they'll go out and literally fight for them.
The first known fatality occurred at a Wal-Mart in Secaucus, New Jersey, a woman repeatedly stabbed a man with a kitchen knife taken from the housewares section to prevent him from buying the last Xbox 360. Another sad incident transpired at a Tucker, Georgia Toys R Us. One woman bludgeoned another to death with a baseball bat over an American Girl doll. She was heard yelling at her victim, "hasta la vista, baby."this is a very sick world. lemme know what you think...and if you have a story, we're all ears!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
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