Many of you are probably sleeping in this morning because you were very brave yesterday...you actually faced the phenomonon that has become known as "Black Friday". I tried it a few years back (you can find a post on this blog about it somewhere) Needless to say, I've never done it since.
I was watching the news this morning and heard about all these people who got hurt at stores fighting for the "earlybird deals." I think one man was tackled by the police because someone yelled out that he was stealing an XBox. He was actually hiding it under his shirt to protect himself from the crowd.
Another report told of a women who was fighting for an XBox and peppered sprayed the people around her. There were riots as the stores opened, an uprising because a store actually didn't open right at midnight as promised. The people pushed their way through and overwhelmed the employees. The news channel showed footage of a mob of people fighting over a waffle maker. I think a man actually got shot in the parking lot of the local Walmart where I'm visiting.
On and on it goes, stories of people acting crazy for a bargain...all hyped up by the media and advertising world, to make them think that they won't get a good deal if they don't show up at ungodly hours on Friday morning.
I marvel at the state of people's minds as they fight and claw their way through the store to get what they want. As much as I appreciate a good deal, I can't imagine trampling someone to get it. I couldn't take out some pepper spray and use it on another person unless I felt my life was being threatened...not to get an item on my child's Christmas list.
I wonder if when these same people get up on Christmas morning and they're watching their precious little ones open all these fought after presents, if they'll feel at all guilty for the arms and legs they crushed on the way in to get it??? Just wondering...
There are 29 more shopping days until Christmas - please be safe out there! Word of advice - don't do anything that you'll regret as you wake up on the 25th and hopefully realize "it's not about the gifts!"
It's about someone who came to be the ultimate gift! His name is Jesus "Emmanuel - God with us"
James 1:17 - "Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows."
That is so sad yet I am laughing at the ridiculous state of things. Seriously! That picture reminds me of the movie, "The Grinch" where people were super excited to max out their cards and buy gifts nobody needed anyway. Oh my -- talk about flesh. Wow!
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine getting pepper sprayed over an item? Excuse me Ma'am ... I was looking at that FIRST --- sppppshhhhhhhhhhh, right in the eyes! The woman drops it from the pain and it breaks into a million pieces. Mercy.